Teaching Dual Credit Students – AC Professor Resources
- Welcome to the Dual Credit Community
- What is the Dual Credit Program?
- Where to find and how to contact the Academic Partnerships Team
- Who are the Dual Credit Support Teachers and how to contact them
- Teaching Dual Credit students – A Faculty Guide (PDF)
- How to add a Dual Credit Support Teacher to Brightspace (PDF)
- Algonquin College Policies and Procedures
- Dual Credit students needing accommodations
Welcome!
You are part of the Dual Credit Community!
Any Professor teaching Dual Credit students is part of the Dual Credit Community at Algonquin College, so welcome to the team! You are now part of a unique opportunity to change lives through the delivery of college courses to high school students.
What is the Dual Credit Program?
The Dual Credit program helps young people discover what educational or career pathway is right for them and helps them get closer to the goal of graduating high school. The program is funded by the Ministry of Education in conjunction with the Ministry of Training, Colleges and Universities through the School|College|Work Initiative (SCWI) and supports the Learning to 18 mandate.
Faculty, along with their high school teacher counterparts, play a key role in the success of Dual Credits. We have designed this web page to help navigate the logistics of the program so they don’t get in the way of your classroom delivery.
The links below will direct you to further background information, outlines some of the supports available to you and Dual Credit students, reviews various policies/procedures/logistics and clarifies the release of academic information between relevant parties. Please take some time to review this information, keeping it handy for reference.
The Academic Partnerships Team
The Office of Academic Partnerships is your main point of contact for any questions about these students that may arise throughout the academic year. You are welcome to contact us by phone (x 3492), or email (dualcredit@algonquincollege.com)
Tracy Norris – Associate Chair
Stephanie Kirkham – Dual Credit Coordinator
Kathy Deugo – Budget and Logistics Officer
Who are the Dual Credit Support Teachers?
The Dual Credit Teacher are high school teachers employed by a partner district school board. Their role is to support the Dual Credit students and facilitate communication about academic progress with the home high school and parents/guardian. Each Dual Credit student has to sign a consent form allowing the College Professors to communicate with the Dual Credit Teacher as well as with the staff from the Office of Academic Partnerships. If you are not sure who the DC Support Teacher is for any particular student, please contact dualcredit@algonquincollege.com
They have all been assigned a Algonquin College Contractor IT Info, meaning you are able to add them to your Brightspace so they can better assist students and to streamline your communication to them, as they will know as soon as the students information about their academic progress.
| School Board | Dual Credit Support Teacher | Preferred Email for Communication | College User ID (for Brightspace) |
| OCDSB | Shannon Hendrycks | hendrys | |
| OCSB | Jessica Muldoon | jessica.muldoon@ocsb.ca | muldooj2 |
| UCDSB | Laure Mitchell | laure.mitchell@ucdsb.on.ca | mitchel2 |
| CDSBEO | Pam Quick | pam.quick@cdsbeo.on.ca | quickp |
| RCDSB | Alex Harris | harrisa@rcdsb.on.ca | harrisa |
| RCCDSB | Stephen Charkavi | scharkavi@rccdsb.edu.on.ca | charkas |
Teaching Dual Credit students – A Faculty Guide (PDF)
Download the Guide here!
How to add a Dual Credit Support Teacher to Brightspace (PDF)
Download the Guide here!
Algonquin College Policies and Procedures
College’s expectations in regards to student behaviour and responsibilities, is no different for Dual Credit students than with any other part-time student. College’s expectations in regards to employee behaviour and responsibilities is no different for a Dual Credit student. If you follow the link below you can get specifics on Algonquin College policies and procedures regarding academic affairs and governance, procedures/sanctions for resolving complaints and dealing with offences, and much more. If you have questions or concerns, you can contact your Academic Chair, the Manager of Academic Partnerships, or the College Ombudsman.
See all policies and procedures via this link!
Dual Credit students needing accommodations
The Centre for Accessible Learning at Algonquin College provides support to students, including Dual Credit students with visible and non-visible disabilities who self-identify.
They have created a page that can be shared with DC students to guide them through the process of registering with CAL. The Dual Credit Support Teacher can also assist if the students wants to self-identify.
See more details here!