WHEN IS EXTRA HELP AVAILABLE?
● Before School by previous appointment (1 day prior) and during lunch periods
● After School on Weekdays (4.20 - ????).
● In the morning of exam days.
● Through Electronic Mail (I check my e-mail every day).
● Via Twitter
WHAT ARE CLASSROOM RULES?
My rules are congruent with those laid out in your other courses. Fundamentally, those rules boil down to four:
1 Respect everyone and everything in this school.
2 You are here to learn. Effort is required.
3 You are expected to do your own work.
4 You may not interfere with anyone else’s right to follow Rules 1, 2 and 3.
Specific school policies about cell phones, mp3 players, hats, etc. are enforced in this class
1 Respect everyone and everything in this school.
2 You are here to learn. Effort is required.
3 You are expected to do your own work.
4 You may not interfere with anyone else’s right to follow Rules 1, 2 and 3.
Specific school policies about cell phones, mp3 players, hats, etc. are enforced in this class
WHAT DO I DO IF I AM ABSENT?
Makeup work: It is strongly recommended that you attend class every day in a timely fashion. Excessive lateness or absences will make it very difficult for you to keep up with the workload of this course. If you are absent, it is your responsibility to makeup all assignments. “I was absent” is not an excuse for missing an assignment (unless I excuse you). All assignments are posted on the class calendar, which is accessible from all course websites. There is also a folder/binder that contains daily work for each day).
Please discuss missed work with me as soon as you return to class. Work done during absences is due 3 days after your return to class. You must also make arrangements to makeup any labs, quizzes or tests as soon as you return to school. All excused late work must be completed by the close of the current quarter.
If your absence is unexcused, you will receive a “0” on your Work Hard portion of your grade anything we do in class on the day(s) of your absence. This includes classwork, labs, quizzes and tests. You cannot make up any work that is missed due to these absences.
WILL THERE BE HOMEWORK?
Being that this is a
college-level course, you should expect a workload equal to what would be
encountered in college. The typical
college formula is that students will spend ~ 3 hours of their own time per
hour spent in class. In this class, I anticipate that you will spend two hours of your own time per
hour spent in class. As we spend 45 minutes in class daily (Monday-Wednesday), you should expect to have ~2 hours of work to do per
day. This, however, will vary depending on the topic. I have factored in 30 minutes, in which you review your class notes, reading notes and flashcards.
WHAT WILL A TYPICAL DAY LOOK LIKE?
● Content Discussion/Interactive Lecture - Lecture is unavoidable. Welcome to the typical way college courses are run. To make this as non-boring as possible, you are expected to interface with the content prior to coming to class. It is expected that you have done this, and the style of the discussion is based on this assumption. To wit, I don’t just talk at you.
I ask you questions about the content that you interfaced with before you came to class, and you answer them. Everyone gets a turn to demonstrate that they know what they are talking about.
Very few things will make you feel worse in this class than not knowing what you are talking about because you did not hold up your end of this deal. It will seem like I am displeased with you, because I will be. You will not feel awesome about this, and neither will I. Most likely you will need to stay after class to have a discussion about it after school (i.e. office hours after school/ or lunch time) .
● Other Things - Content discussion takes up no more than one-half of our time together on any day that we are together. Following content discussion, we move in to a variety of other tasks depending on the day. Maybe its an activity. Maybe it’s a lab. Maybe it’s a problem or quiz. Whatever it is, the expectation is that you will do your very best, focused, effort on whatever it is that we are doing.
This is how the days work in this course.
Obviously, there are certain aspects of how this course works that emerge from this underlying structure. Here are the major ones:
● You don’t come late to this class without an excellent and legitimate excuse.
● While I am NOT usually one to put a “Do Now” on the board in an AP-level science course, I am one to begin immediately when the door cloases. Which means that you need to be ready to go. Provided below, find a daily “Do Now”:
○ Get to class on time (with your ISN, laptop (fully charged), pencil and/or pen)
○ Make sure your phone is off/silent and well away (unless you are given explicit instruction to use your phone for some course purpose).
○Go to your table and begin the Engagement activity
● Typically, I expect that since we have been over this at this particular moment in time and space, that I do not need to repeat myself to a group of students who are taking a college-level course. If I do need to repeat myself more than once, we’ll find ourselves in another one of the aforementioned “bold type” situations.
● Emergencies notwithstanding, I am disciplined to ever make any exceptions to my expectations. Stated here so that you will not be surprised should you ever ask.
I ask you questions about the content that you interfaced with before you came to class, and you answer them. Everyone gets a turn to demonstrate that they know what they are talking about.
Very few things will make you feel worse in this class than not knowing what you are talking about because you did not hold up your end of this deal. It will seem like I am displeased with you, because I will be. You will not feel awesome about this, and neither will I. Most likely you will need to stay after class to have a discussion about it after school (i.e. office hours after school/ or lunch time) .
● Other Things - Content discussion takes up no more than one-half of our time together on any day that we are together. Following content discussion, we move in to a variety of other tasks depending on the day. Maybe its an activity. Maybe it’s a lab. Maybe it’s a problem or quiz. Whatever it is, the expectation is that you will do your very best, focused, effort on whatever it is that we are doing.
This is how the days work in this course.
Obviously, there are certain aspects of how this course works that emerge from this underlying structure. Here are the major ones:
● You don’t come late to this class without an excellent and legitimate excuse.
● While I am NOT usually one to put a “Do Now” on the board in an AP-level science course, I am one to begin immediately when the door cloases. Which means that you need to be ready to go. Provided below, find a daily “Do Now”:
○ Get to class on time (with your ISN, laptop (fully charged), pencil and/or pen)
○ Make sure your phone is off/silent and well away (unless you are given explicit instruction to use your phone for some course purpose).
○Go to your table and begin the Engagement activity
● Typically, I expect that since we have been over this at this particular moment in time and space, that I do not need to repeat myself to a group of students who are taking a college-level course. If I do need to repeat myself more than once, we’ll find ourselves in another one of the aforementioned “bold type” situations.
● Emergencies notwithstanding, I am disciplined to ever make any exceptions to my expectations. Stated here so that you will not be surprised should you ever ask.