Aldine I.S.D. Teacher Handbook - Aldine Independent School District

Meeting to Return the Student to School
1. When the physician provides a medical release date to return to school, the GEH Committee
meets and completes the GEH form # 2 to dismiss the student from Homebound Services.
The parent could participate by phone if they wish.
2. File the General Education Homebound Summary Form # 3 and the General Education
Homebound Teacher Contact Log From # 5 along with the other General Education
Homebound Forms from the first meeting in the student’s cumulative folder.
Attendance/Calculating eligible days present
Amount of time served per week: Eligible days present/earned per week:
One hour One day present
Two hours Two days present
Three hours Three days present
Four or more hours Four days present (4-day week)
Five days present (5-day week)
1. Excused absences
a. Student is too ill to complete school work.
b. Student is contagious
c. Family member is contagious
d. Student has a doctor’s appointment
2. Unexcused absences
a. Unexcused absences may result in no grade (NG) and the need to reconsider
Homebound Services.
Schoolwork
1. Textbooks
a. Textbooks should be provided to the student from his/her campus.
b. Parents are responsible for checking out and returning textbooks. Neither homebound
instructors nor school personnel will be able to check out textbooks.
2. Make-up work
a. If the student has been out of school for more than five days prior to the initial General
Education Homebound meeting, the family should request make-up work from the
student’s campus.
3. Extracurricular
a. Students who are too ill to attend school are considered too ill to participate in
extracurricular activities.
b. If the student exhibits the ability for such activities, the student would not continue
with Homebound Services.
4. Student Work
a. The student’s teachers must complete the Teacher Assignment Form (GEH # 4) each
week and provide to the Homebound Teachers.
b. The student’s teachers must provide the assignments and the materials for the
assignments weekly to the Homebound Teachers.
c. When writing lesson plans for the week for the student on homebound, teachers must
take into consideration the student is receiving much less direct instructional time due
to the severity of the student’s illness/injury than when the student is attending school
for instruction.
Testing
1. The homebound teacher will administer state assessments to eligible students.
Miscellaneous
1. Homebound Services are provided within the Aldine Independent School District
boundaries.
2. Homebound instructors will not enter situations that are dangerous. This includes a home
where any person has an infectious or contagious condition.
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