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Classroom Expectations
Realtime Parent/Student Portal
Student grades and assignment information are available at the CPS Student Portal. This is a convenient way to keep track of your grades (or your child’s grades) and monitor your progress in class. Students are expected to check their science grade at least once a week.
Extra Help
Students are encourage to come for extra help (make up homework , class work, make up quizzes/ tests) in the morning or after school .They must have a teacher permission slip and a note signed by their parent or guardian.
Grading Scale
During the course of each marking period, you will be expected to complete a variety of assignments: at-home and in-class projects, quizzes, tests and discovery activities. Your marking period grade will be a reflection of how well you accomplish these tasks, and the effort that you apply to complete them.
CPS Grading Scale:
A=100-93 B= 92-85 C= 84-77 D= 76-70 F=<70
Grading Policies
Assignments: All assignments will be submitted on loose-leaf paper. I will not accept any assignment submitted with nubbins hanging off the side (nubby = paper fringe). All assignments will be named and dated.
Tests/Quizzes: Written assignments will be given to assess knowledge of a concept, chapter or unit. Quizzes may be given as frequently as once or twice a week, and may or may not be announced (unannounced quiz = “pop quiz”). All tests/chapters will be announced ahead of time so each student may prepare adequately.
Projects: Each unit will incorporate a project that should be completed with maximum effort. Unit projects will be introduced at the beginning of the unit, and submitted by the given deadline.
Homework Policy
It is very important that students do their homework. All assigned homework is designed to reinforce and strengthen mastery of concepts and skills learned in class or prepare for the next day’s lesson. There is a strong correlation between doing homework and being successful in this class.
Homework and assignments that are turned in on time, but receive low scores, can be redone to average a new score. Students who are absent will be expected to make-up the work they missed. They will be given one day for each day that they missed to turn in their work.
!!!!!Students and parents are encouraged to visit my web site: wwww.chopinschool.org/resource/room309. This is the best way to keep informed about homework assignments, upcoming tests/quizzes, and other important information.
Preparation & Participation
The students are expected to come to class prepared having all the materials needed for class(binder pencil and paper are the most important)and ready to actively participate in the learning process every day.(please study the notes of the lesson before!!!)
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Classroom Expectations
- Be on time. When you arrive in class, begin working quietly on the do-now and wait for teacher instructions.
- Be prepared for class. Please have your textbook, binder, pen/pencil ready to be used and take out the homework when you enter the classroom each day.
- Listen carefully and follow directions at all times. Fallow classroom agenda of each period posted on the board.
- Raise your hand and wait to be called on before speaking. Be courteous. Do not talk out of turn. When the teacher or a classmate is talking, you should be listening. One person talks at a time. There should be no side conversations or calling out. During centers and group activities, you may work with other students quietly. You should be able to hear the teacher at all times and are to stop what you are doing and pay attention when you hear the teacher talking.
- Cell phones, mp3 players, tablets, computers, and other electronic devices may not be used in class, except with permission and under supervision of the teacher. Use of these devices without permission will result in the device being confiscated and given to a building administrator.
- At the end of class remain seated until you are dismissed by the teacher.
Realtime Parent/Student Portal
Student grades and assignment information are available at the CPS Student Portal. This is a convenient way to keep track of your grades (or your child’s grades) and monitor your progress in class. Students are expected to check their science grade at least once a week.
Extra Help
Students are encourage to come for extra help (make up homework , class work, make up quizzes/ tests) in the morning or after school .They must have a teacher permission slip and a note signed by their parent or guardian.
Grading Scale
During the course of each marking period, you will be expected to complete a variety of assignments: at-home and in-class projects, quizzes, tests and discovery activities. Your marking period grade will be a reflection of how well you accomplish these tasks, and the effort that you apply to complete them.
- Tests/Quizzes: 40%
- Class Participation: 10%
- Projects: 10%
- Homework: 10%
- Classwork & Binder Organization: 30%
CPS Grading Scale:
A=100-93 B= 92-85 C= 84-77 D= 76-70 F=<70
Grading Policies
- Students must have their assignments complete and with them in class the day they are due to receive full credit. Late homework assignments will result in points being deducted from the grade.
- Work missed due to absences must be made up in a timely fashion. It is your responsibility to see me for the work you missed.
Assignments: All assignments will be submitted on loose-leaf paper. I will not accept any assignment submitted with nubbins hanging off the side (nubby = paper fringe). All assignments will be named and dated.
Tests/Quizzes: Written assignments will be given to assess knowledge of a concept, chapter or unit. Quizzes may be given as frequently as once or twice a week, and may or may not be announced (unannounced quiz = “pop quiz”). All tests/chapters will be announced ahead of time so each student may prepare adequately.
Projects: Each unit will incorporate a project that should be completed with maximum effort. Unit projects will be introduced at the beginning of the unit, and submitted by the given deadline.
Homework Policy
It is very important that students do their homework. All assigned homework is designed to reinforce and strengthen mastery of concepts and skills learned in class or prepare for the next day’s lesson. There is a strong correlation between doing homework and being successful in this class.
- Math homework is daily and will be due the next day.
- Any assignment not completed in class is considered homework.
Homework and assignments that are turned in on time, but receive low scores, can be redone to average a new score. Students who are absent will be expected to make-up the work they missed. They will be given one day for each day that they missed to turn in their work.
!!!!!Students and parents are encouraged to visit my web site: wwww.chopinschool.org/resource/room309. This is the best way to keep informed about homework assignments, upcoming tests/quizzes, and other important information.
Preparation & Participation
The students are expected to come to class prepared having all the materials needed for class(binder pencil and paper are the most important)and ready to actively participate in the learning process every day.(please study the notes of the lesson before!!!)
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