At Argyll Centre, education is a partnership between the parents, students and teachers designed to help the student succeed in their studies and in life. A teacher directed program, therefore, is not one where the parents assign all responsibility for the student's education to their teacher. A teacher directed program is one where the parents have chosen to let the teacher have primary responsibility for designing, delivering and assessing the student's education. Parents remain involved in a supporting role in that education plan, retaining responsibility for supervision of the student, providing an appropriate learning environment and adequate time to complete their studies, and remaining in communication with their students and teachers. Argyll provides parents and students with online access to up-to-date progress information, and our staff are available by phone, email, web conferencing, instant messaging and face to face on-site consultations.

Our teacher directed programs are designed to meet the province's Alberta Program of Studies (APS) requirements. This includes a minimum of 950 hours of instruction for grades 1-9, and a minimum of 1000 hours for grades 10-12 for a full online program.

All students, parents and staff involved in a Teacher-Directed program agree to work together on the basis of the Teacher-Directed Program Agreement, which spells out the responsibilities of each role.

If you would like to be responsible for teaching some courses yourself, you should consider our Blended Education options.

Teacher Directed options we offer:

• LearnNet
• Live Online
• Correspondence & Print-based approaches
• Summer Learning