Class Policies/Rules
School Supplies needed EVERY DAY: iPad EVERY DAY! If your iPad is not in the room, charged and ready to go, you are considered unprepared for my class.
First, I would like to touch on a few points before my official rules. These are the staple principles of my classroom:
Every student is responsible for completing the daily tasks and will be held responsible for the grade they deserve and EARN in my class. This is a High School Credit and leads to a Career Certification. Therefore, my class will work in the same way as a job in the real world.
All lessons will remain open, but anything not completed on time will result in a lower grade based on the Late Assignments scale found below.
This is a PROJECT BASED CLASS. What that means is that the completion of projects is approximately 80% of your students' grades.
We will be using the Adobe Suite on the student-issued iPads. These are memory and battery hogs on the iPads, having a device that is ready and capable to do the job is ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY in this class.
I recommend that you purchase a stylus similar to the one in this link (Click Here) from Amazon. This will make manipulating the Adobe apps such as PhotoShop much easier, though they are not absolutely necessary. These are the same stylus pens that the Math department has asked for in the past. Any fine-tip stylus will work, though latency can be a problem when drawing.
Policies: (ON CAMPUS POLICIES)
Tardy Policy - Students will be seated and working on their Bell Ringer activities when class begins or they will be considered tardy. There will always be written direction on the Agenda Board and students will never be unaware of what I expect from them. I take every minute I have with your student seriously.
Dismissal - I will spend the last five minutes of class taking care of any "House Keeping" necessary for the end of class. During this time, I expect that all students have cleaned their areas and are seated and ready to dismiss in an orderly fashion. However, the bell does not release my students, I do. I am not unreasonable, all I ask is that students have their things together and are sitting and quiet before they leave my classroom. There is more than enough time during passing period that this should never be a problem.
Behavior - As I stated before, I am not unreasonable. I will never ask something of a student that I do not feel is in their best interests and/or the interests of the class as a whole. I have a three-strike system that I follow strictly. I reset the strike counter every 3 weeks following the progress report schedule. Strikes are as follows:
1st Offense: Students who choose to be off task will receive a verbal redirection.
2nd Offense: Students who choose to continue this or other off-task behaviors will be given a written warning in the form of a Behavior slip. This slip will be logged in the Behavior Log and will be paired with a call or email home to parents and an after school detention.
3rd Offense: Students who choose to ignore prior warnings will have their behavior logged in the Behavior Log, a call home to parents will be made, and an office referral will be given.
Late Assignments - All Assignments will be available until the end of the grading period, however there will be a grade reduction following the first late day. The grade will drop on the following schedule:
1 Day Late= <80%
2 Days Late= <70%
3+ Days Late= ZAP (Zeros Aren't Permitted) in which the student must stay after school in a teacher tutorial to finish the work for a grade of 70% or less depending on accuracy.