Aptos High School

Tutorial

The AHS Tutorial is academic and educational, providing students’ with time to make up tests, get help from teachers, complete schoolwork, read, conduct research, reflect quietly, etc. It is expected that during Tutorial, students will be engaged in an academic activity. During Tutorial, all regular classroom rules will apply. It is the Tutorial teacher’s decision as to whether a particular Tutorial will provide for collaborative work which produces more noise than individual work.

Students should plan to remain quietly in Tutorial during morning announcements which happen at the beginning of Tutorial. After the announcements have concluded, students have seven minutes to transition to where their Tutorial pass indicates.

Campus security and administration will assign after school detentions to students who do not have the correct pass or for students taking longer than seven minutes to transition. Saturday School will continue to be the consequence for cutting Tutorial.

Tutorial Do’s for students

Quiet study time
Catch up on missing assignments
Review before tests
Confer with teacher about progress and grades
Make up tests or activities
Research for ongoing projects
Silent reading
Read a newspaper or magazine
Computer-based activities or research
Be sure you only use the specific tutorial pass with only your name and a teacher signature, date and time in ink
Use the library for quiet work or resources that are present in the library

Tutorial don’ts for students

Listen to MP3s/IPods or use other non-school related electronic devices such as cell phones
Put on makeup
Chat rooms or games
Non-instructional movies
Hang out/social time
Leave the tutorial you are in after the first seven minutes
Go to the library every tutorial or use the library for non-productive activities