Syllabus
Learning Strategies
Liberty High School 2019-2020
Kristin Bell
(425) 837-4921
THE COURSE & EXPECTATIONS
This class is designed to help you learn and to prepare you for success in all of your classes. We will combine time to work on assignments with active instruction. After completing the entry task, students will have approximately 70 minutes to work on homework/study. Students are expected to use this time productively. Students who do not have specific assignments should come prepared to read, review a chapter of a textbook or review their notes. Absence of any work brought in by the student will result in added assignments. This is a graded class and students must be productive the entire period. Students may also use this class period to access their “extended time on tests” accommodation.
MATERIALS (items students are required to bring to class every day)
· Assignments from both A and B day classes
· Pencils/pens & erasers (extra lead if using mechanical pencils)
· Planner (paper or electronic)
GRADING
-Grading is based on the total points system.
-There are 2 categories that a student’s Learning Strategies grade will be organized by:
· Warm Ups: Entry Tasks (10 points per day)
· Behavior: Productive Use of Study Time (10 points per day)
· All assignments are individual unless otherwise indicated. Please see the Student Handbook for the definition and consequences relating to academic dishonesty.
· If you have an unexcused absence then you will be marked for 0 points. If your absences is EXCUSED then you will be marked as no count.
· Grade and planner checks will be every Monday or Tuesday
ABSENCE POLICY
· Students are allowed and expected to make up work missed when absent, regardless of whether the absence is excused or unexcused.
o Definition of Tardy: entering the classroom after the bell stops ringing (the 2nd bell ringing).
ELECTRONICS POLICY
For this class, electronics are not permitted within sight except during appropriate teacher-designated times or as indicated in the student’s IEP (accommodations page). Electronics include but are not limited to cell phones, ipods, ipads, tablets, laptops, netbooks, gaming devices, etc.
Learning Strategies Syllabus
2019-2020
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