Policies

Welcome to LINC 4 - 5!

NEW! Standards for progress: To improve your CLBs, you will be expected to create and maintain an e-portfolio of artefacts that demonstrate your proficiencies in each of the four skills (LSRW). As a rough guide, you should have three new artefacts each week for Listening tasks, three for Speaking, three for Reading, and three for Writing, a total of about 12 per month.
These should not be rushed through but done in a consistent, daily manner, with an emphasis on quality, peer editing and coaching, and self-improvement, so that anyone looking through your blog can appreciate the progress evidenced there.
Your e-portfolio will be supplemented by class attendance and participation, in-class presentations (at least two per month), field trip activities, end-of-term summative portfolios, etc., as part of your overall assessment.
And before you leave the class, be sure to connect with your new family via Facebook and LinkedIn as well as leave your feedback under Comments below (old feedback location here).
We look forward to celebrating your progress in English learning and settlement in Canada!



The following basic policies are to be observed:

1. As this is a full-time LINC program funded by taxpayers through the federal government, you are required to attend Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. This includes field trips and special events.
2. If you're not able to attend for any reason, you need to email your instructor the reason in advance and produce a medical note as the case might be. 
3. If you are attending, please make sure you observe basic hygiene so as not to inconvenience your classmates (take a shower, brush your teeth, use a mint, etc.). As well, observe proper etiquette in common areas like the kitchen and washrooms (e.g. no gargling or spitting in sinks or trash cans, no washing of feet in the sink, no wetting the floor, no choking of toilets).
4. Do not schedule activities--part-time work, specialist or counsellor appointments, driving tests, etc.--during school time.
5. Cell phones are to be turned to silent mode, and phone conversations should be done outside the class. The hallway should be kept as quiet as possible in respect of the other classes.
6. Do not speak languages other than English. You need to help and not hurt yourself and others, as we try to improve our language proficiency.
7. While attending, you need to participate actively in all activities, including group or pair work, peer presentations, conversation circles, blogging, information workshops and sessions, graduations and celebrations, and area clean ups.
8. Respect others in the class at all times. This means maintaining eye contact with presenters, ensuring only one person is speaking during presentation times, and not doing other work without the instructor's permission.
9. Leave the place as clean as, if not better than, when you came. Do not litter with pencil shavings, tissue wads, paper scraps, wrappers, etc.
10. It is your responsibility to comply with these policies. Ignorance is not an excuse. If you can no longer abide by these policies, you need to inform the instructor and withdraw from the program.

ALTERNATIVES TO OUR FULL-TIME LINC CLASSROOM:

LINC Home Study – Ontario: 905-949-0049 ext. 1257 or toll free at 1-800-668-1179 ext. 1257

helpdesk@linchomestudy.ca 
www.linchomestudy.ca

Part-time Classroom - Tesoc Multicultural Settlement Services
1160 Birchmount Rd.,Unit 1A 
Scarborough, ON, M1P 2B8 
PHONE : 416.757.6043 
www.tesoc.org