1. Be in your seat, ready to learn, when the tardy bell rings.

2. Avoid disruptions and interruptions when others are speaking or presenting and to which you should be paying attention, including, but not limited to:

• Speaking out of turn
• Leaving your seat to sharpent a pencil or toss trash
• Communicating silently with others across the room
• Personal grooming

3. Respect boundaries and property.

4. Follow instructions and stay on task.

5. Adhere to the Golden Rule:

• Treat others as you would want them to treat you

CONSEQUENCES FOR RULES VIOLATIONS (Level 1/Classroom offenses)

First offense (minor violation): warning (verbal or gesture)
Second offense: discussion with teacher, probable isolation from class &/or seat change, parent contact (written)
Third offense: isolation from class, removal of lab privileges, parent contact (phone/conference), 2 hours detention
Fourth offense: referral to Administration office

CONTINUED OR SEVERE VIOLATIONS:
Immediate referral to Administration office.

REWARDS include, but are not limited to:

Praise, improved grades, good news notices, opportunity to select lab partners, teacher in a good mood!

• Late work is NOT accepted!  It is in your best interest to begin any assignment as soon as possible and if you have problems to visit me during tutorial to resolve the problems before the assignment is due. Get your work turned in on time!

• Homework will be assigned on a regular basis (that means on almost every class day). You are expected to come to class with homework completed. Except for excused absences, students who come to class without homework completed on the day it is due may be denied lab privileges for that day, at my discretion. No credit will be given for late homework, although you will be expected to do the homework and will be held accountable for its content. Credit is given for alternate (non-lab) assignments given IF and when they are turned in with the late (non-graded) homework.

• In the event of an anticipated absence, such as a sports game or doctor's appointment, try to make arrangements to get your assignments before the absence.

• You are responsible to talk to me concerning work missed due to an excused absence (during tutorial is best). You are expected to make up any work you missed outside of class time; plan to make up labs during tutorial or receive alternate assignments. Your absence must be excused in order to receive credit for missed assignments.
  
• School policy grants you a grace period of one class session for each excused session you are absent. You are expected to turn in all assignments you missed during your absence within this grace period in order to receive credit for them. Otherwise, you will receive no credit for the work missed.
  
• SCHOOL RULES:
  It is my professional duty to follow and enforce school rules and policies. Do not ask me to make an exception to them for you, because I cannot do the same for everyone else.

• Students will receive passes each grading period to use to leave class for such things as the restroom or to get something left in another class.  Unused passes may be turned in at the end of each grading period for extra credit points.

• Students and parents must sign a safety contract and students must pass a lab safety test prior to being allowed the privilege of participating in lab activities. Students whose behavior is inappropriate and/or unsafe will be denied lab privileges until they exhibit the maturity to conduct themselves appropriately in lab conditions. In order to maintain a safe environment for all students, student participation in lab activities is at the discretion of the teacher.

Your work is expected to be neat and complete, take your time and show pride in your work! Unless you have other instructions, you may either print or write in cursive; use whatever is neatest for you (I prefer printing if you can do it neatly). Pen or pencil may be used; pens must be used in lab notebooks. You will be given one opportunity in class to turn in work; it will not be accepted after that time. Work that is handed in to be evaluated by me will not be ac-ceptable (i.e., it will receive no score) if it does not follow my assignment criteria, including:

• Having a complete heading of first and last name, date, period and assignment title in upper right corner (holes on left if in portrait format, holes on top if in landscape)
• Being complete, clean, neat, legible, and well-organized without extra markings and without fringe or tears
• Being written so that writing on one side of the paper does not affect legibility on the other side or next page, is stapled once only in the upper left hand corner (if > 1 sheet) and is on straight-edged paper

MINDMAPS must:
• Have each branch written in separate colors (no black or lead pencil) without highlighting, background shad-ing, use of color only on the branches, or other shortcuts
• Have easily visible, relevant diagrams for each main branch to aid recall of information in the branch
• Be legible from a normal viewing angle, not requiring turning the paper to read

VOCABULARY must be:
• Set up in the 4-column format with a definition or attributes describing each term and a diagram that helps you remember the meaning of that term; etymology will be provided

Students whose behavior is inappropriate and/or unsafe will be denied lab privileges until they exhibit the maturity to conduct themselves appropriately in lab conditions.

Academic integrity means nothing more than doing your own work, period.

Academic integrity means letting your classmate or friend do their own work, period.

This may become confusing when someone asks for help in understanding a problem or when you are working in a group.

When helping someone with a problem, it is acceptable to guide them in finding a solution by telling them to look at a certain page in the book, or to use a certain equation, or to help them reason out an answer.  It is not acceptable to let them copy your paper or receive answers word for word. Allowing another student to copy your work is cheating!

When you are working in a group, each student is responsible for his or her own understanding and written responses. Identical or almost identical written responses among the group are not acceptable. When a group is conducting a laboratory activity and collecting data, the data is obviously shared among the group; however, each group member is responsible for recording the data for him- or herself. Group members may certainly discuss the data and share their interpretations and conclusion. However, each member is to create his or her own data table and graph, and write his or her own observations, analysis and conclusion. Group members may also read and edit each other’s work, but it is not acceptable to have duplicate or almost duplicate responses. Computer-generated lab reports (or lab report components) may be used ONLY by the one student who created that report/report component on the computer (multiple copies = no score for each group member).

Each student is to originate his or her own written work, period.

Any apparent violation of these Standards of Academic Integrity will be referred to the Administration Office and the work will receive a zero score. Be advised that the use of computers to cheat will also result in referrals. Please refer to your BUHS Student Handbook.