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Class Policies

Lab Time:
  • Stay in your seats and work on your assignments and projects. If you have a question and need raise your hand and the teacher will assist you as soon as possible.
  • If the teacher is busy write your name on the white board and the teacher will see in the order as your name is listed.
If you finish the activities listed for the day check with the teacher. There will always be an assignment or project coming up that you can work on (Check Blackboard). Do not work on assignments from other classes

Attendance:
Tardies: All classes are consistent with the school's policy regarding tardies. 
  • 1 tardy:           Verbal Warning
  • 2 tardies:        Conference with student and phone call home
  • 3 tardies:        Referral
Absences: You are responsible for making up work missed due to excused absences. You must make arrangements with me immediately upon returning to class. I will not remind you to make up missed assignments. 

Truancies: You will receive a zero for all work due on the day of an unexcused absence.

Late Assignment Policy: 
Any assignment not turned in during your class period on the due date will be considered late.

Students must complete and turn in a Late Assignment Grade Request form in order for that assignment to be graded.

A grade of 0(zero) will be given for assignments not turned in or attempted.

Partial credit may be given for Late Assignments turned in within a week of the due date.

Full credit may be given for Late Assignments due to an Excused Absence within a week of the due date.
Lab Computer Policies:
Not following the policies listed will result in disciplinary action listed below
  • Students are not allowed to unplug cables and move the computers and/or monitors
  • Removing and/or rearranging the keys on any keyboard is not allowed
  • Students will be held responsible for any equipment that they damage and the right to use the equipment may be revoked as a result 
  • All students must follow the district Acceptable Use policies
DISCIPLINARY ACTION:
A sequence of steps will be followed for any circumstance or situation that interrupts or interferes with the learning/teaching atmosphere in the classroom or any other learning/teaching environment.

  1. Visual warning
  2. Student moved from computer and given written assignment
  3. Phone call home and/or referral
Academic Honesty: 
Students must complete their own work for all assignments. If a student is found to have copied or turned in work that is not theirs a grade of Zero will be given.
Grading: 
Scale: { A(100-90), B(89-80), C(79-70), D(69-60), F(59-0) }

Incomplete grades will not be given. Students are expected to follow the Late Assignment Policy listed below

Grades should be available online through Aries. Rubrics will be provided in class and on Blackboard.


AP Computer Science:
Projects -(20%),  Assignments (Review Questions, Labs, Exercises - (20%),  Lab Assessments – (20%), Exams -(40%)  
 
Computer Science Principles:
Creative Projects (20%), Homework (15%), and Performance Tasks (30%), Assessment (20%), Reflections (15%)

Exploring Computer Science:
Projects (40%), Participation (15%), and Lab Assignments & Quizzes (30%), Final Exam (15%). 

Robotics:
Projects (30%), Participation (25%), and Lab Assignments & Quizzes (30%), Final Design Project (15%)