The document provides information about the scheduling process at Shepherd Hill Regional High School. It explains that students will receive a course selection sheet to take to their teachers for recommendations and parent signature. Students select their electives and must meet any prerequisites. The course catalog on the school website provides course descriptions. Juniors have scheduling conferences in March, sophomores in April, and freshmen in April/May. It is mandatory to select alternative electives in case first choices are not available. Student requests are used to determine which classes will be offered and in how many sections. Schedule changes will not be made for classes not originally requested.

1. SCHEDULING
What do you mean I can’t
change my class!?!?

2. In a week or so, you will receive your
course selection sheet.
Take it to your teachers each period.
It will be collected at the
end of the day that it is
distributed.
You will meet with your guidance
counselor during a directed study.
Then the sheet goes home for a
parent/ guardian to sign.

3. How your schedule is created
Your teachers make course
recommendations for :
• English
• Mathematics
• Science
• Social Studies
• Foreign
Language

4. Now this is important . . .
YOU select your electives . . .
YOU need to know if you meet
the prerequisites. . .
YOU need to know what the
courses are about . . .

5. Well how am I supposed to do that?
R-E-A-D
The Course Description Catalog

6. Go to the Shepherd
Hill Regional High
School website from:
www.dcrsd.org
Go to the
Guidance link
www.dcrsd.org
Click on the Course Descriptions for 2012-13 link.
Courses are set up by department

7. Scheduling conferences during
Directed Studies in the following
order:
Juniors March 26-29
Sophomores April 2-9
Freshmen April 23-27

8. It Is Mandatory to Select
Alternative Electives!
Much work is done to place the
electives you have asked for in your
schedule.
It cannot always happen – for a
number of reasons.
The alternative choices tell us what
the “next best thing” would be.

9. Scheduling Conferences
• Guidance Counselors will call for
students from Directed Studies (you
should not come down until called).
• This is only the data entry point.
Schedules are NOT generated
at this time.
• So…..Students called down first DO
NOT have any advantage.

10. Requests from every student are entered
into the computer by your counselor during
your one-to-one conference.
And Then…
The Master Schedule for the school is built!

11. Yeah, but why can’t I change
my class later?
The number of requests for a
course are used to determine
if it will be run or not.
The number of requests for a course
are also used to determine the
number of sections of a course.

12. ……What?
Classes are run or not run based on
what you put on your course
selection sheets in MARCH.
Classes have a cap on the
number of students who
can enroll.
Schedules will NOT be changed to get
you into a class that you did not ask for
during this process.

13. During the summer
• Work is done to try and
get you into the classes
you have asked for.
• Classes are actually placed in the
Master Schedule so that the largest
number of students who ask for a class
. . . get the class.

14. A couple of notes
• Independent Studies are available to Juniors
and Seniors only. They are carried IN ADDITION
to your minimum caseload. You may NOT drop
a requested class (semester 1 or 2) to add an
Independent Study!
• To change a class, the only
request that will be considered
will be if you have had a
teacher before.

15. Remember… ask
for the courses
you want… and
want the courses
you ask for!
If you have ANY questions, please have
them ready for your one-to-one conference
with your Guidance Counselor!