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Parents, Educators Read This This component of the physical education website is intended as a support resource for home education students and their parents; students enrolled in a blended program, or their teachers and school district administrators. Taking physical education outside a local school requires demonstration of learning at the end of the course. The way students demonstrate learning of the outcomes is the responsibility of the monitoring teacher employed by the supervising school district. The intent of this site is to provide ideas, activities, and examples of ways to achieve the physical education outcomes, as well as providing a monitoring tool called the "tracker". The tracker can be down loaded to an individual computer desktop and used to track all physical education activities. The information reports the tracker produces can be e-mailed to the monitoring teacher for review. Provincial legislation requires students to achieve the program outcomes described in the physical education Program of Studies. Monitoring achievement of the outcomes may be challenging for home education students, as teachers are not able to observe the student's skill level on a regular basis. For this reason the "tracker" is based on a formula of time spent in each dimension as opposed to specific skill development. The provincial curriculum states that a variety of experiences be provided within each of the dimensions which include alternative environment, dance, games, types of gymnastics and individual activities. It is recommended that students spend a minimum of 75 hours towards the achievement of the learning outcomes of the program, and demonstrate experiences in all the dimensions.