1st Year Class Expectations
Academic Work
Try your best at everything we do, effort counts more than ability in CAWD. Students who consistently work hard at all aspects of class tend to get the best grades.
Be prepared. Whether it is assigned work, quizzes, English, etc, make sure you get your work done on time. Full credit is only given to work which is:
- Turned in on time
- Named as we specify
- In location we specify
Class Conduct
Respect
Treat everyone with respect. There is no acceptance of harassment, bullying, name calling, or intimidation of any kind. As with all areas of life, there may be one or two students in class that you don’t get along with. This is understandable, but it does not give anyone the right to misbehave or make anyone feel uncomfortable. Accept it, and move on.
This idea of respect includes CTE members who are not directly your teachers/classmates. We will deal with many members of the staff who will get the same level or respect you expect to receive; courteously and respectfully.
There will be no bullying, name calling, harassment or attempts to make anyone feel uncomfortable in class. If you ever feel you or someone else is being picked on, bullied, etc, talk with us, or email us of you would prefer. We don’t tolerate these types of behavior, and we will have a class free of that behavior.
Punctuality
Be on time. We take attendance based on the computer clock says, not what the lunchroom clock says, not what your watch says, etc. Being late affects your grade, just as being late would affect your job in the real world.
Working in Class
When in CAWD, you are expected to stay in your seat working, quietly. This is not the class to wander around socializing; do that outside our class. If you are talking to a classmate about a project, please do it at a level to not bother others. From more than 10 feet away from you, we don’t want to hear you. If we have to talk to you about these issues it affects your grade in a negative way.
Music in class
You may listen to music when working on projects. The following guidelines must be followed:
- Only when we are in project, not when going over new material, or presenting.
- Never during English with Mr. Bisson
- At a volume where if I am standing next to you I don’t here your music.
- No videos in class, either on droids, the internet, etc. Audio – ok, audio and video = not ok.
- Never when working with visitors, who we all will work with throughout the year.
Cell phones
Cell phones are not to be used in class. You can use them before / after school, at lunch, or break, but not during class time.
Closed campus
Starting this academic year no student is allowed to leave campus once they arrive at school. This includes before class, at break, and lunch. This is a new rule, but will be enforced.
Food / Drink in CAWD
Food is not to be eating in CAWD. On rare occasions we may allow eating in CAWD, but unless we say so there is to be no eating in the room. This includes the pop tart you are hiding in your backpack, the candy you put in your bag and reach your hand into, and the tator tots in your pant pockets.
We have a student in the class with a severe nut allergy. It is extremely important that no one brings nut related food into CAWD. While we can’t eat in the room anyway, I am thinking of special occasions such as before vacation parties or birthdays when you may make/buy some treats. It is very important that we all respect this issue, as it deals with safety of one of our class members.
Drinks are only allowed under Optimus. He guards our drinks. You store them there, you drink them there. Don’t wander. Whenever we are working on projects you can quietly get up and take a drink if it doesn’t become every 5 minutes, and if we are not going over a lesson / doing a presentation. Please make sure you throw out / take your drinks with you at the end of the day. If I have to clean up after you, you can assume we won’t be able to have drinks in the room at all. **There is no food to be stored under Optiums. Eat at break, eat at lunch, but don’t bring the food back to CAWD. Next year in CAWD2 you would have the chance to eat and drink at your computer, but not yet.
Hallways
We share hallways with many different classes, with many different lunch times. We need to not treat the hallways as a place of socialization. Please do not:
- …eat right out side our room. Please eat at the cafe / or on the way back.
- …hang out in a group of 20 right outside the door and eat lunch! While this sounds harmless to us other teachers in the area are running class and it causes anger. Eat in the appropriate areas.
- …leave any garbage in the hallways. We have garbages and recycle bins in the room, please make sure your wrappers / bottles / etc get to the appropriate bins. We are all old enough to clean up after ourselves.
- …be loud in the hallways. You may want your friend to wait up for you to go to the cafe to eat, but please don’t yell from 15, 20, 3o feet down the hall.
