Welcome to our class website. I will post on this website important dates and other things to help you be successful throughout the school year.
I am not a person that sends students to the office. I, we deal with our problems in class or after school as the case may be. I expect you to conduct yourselves as adults. We cannot have the kind of learning atmosphere I enjoy and most of students in the past have enjoyed if this is not true. I will challenge everything you believe and attempt to make both sides of the issues understood at all times. I appreciate your ideas and am not afraid of being wrong or having you change my mind. This is what real education is all about.
The most important thing to me is that we treat each other with respect. I will give you the respect you deserve from the beginning and I am sure I will earn yours as we go along. If there is one thing I will not tolerate, it is abusing some one in class. All I ask is that we all get along and if a problem arises bring it to me do not let it fester. You might be surprised at how much I can do to help if you will let me.
I expect you to give me your best all the time. If you do this, I can tell what you do not know and what you know. This means that we can build on what you know and I can teach you what you don't know. Which transposes into passing the AIMS and moving forward towards reching whatever goals you may have for your future.
In this class, you have to speak and you have to have an opinioin. We work together in groups maybe not a lot but enough because this is how the world works. We use a lot of technology in this class and you will be expected to find time to make this happen. The library, the public library, and there are computers in our room to help you complete the assingments. Your not having technology does not exempt you from an assingment.
One more thing that many students have a hard time with at first is that I do not accept late assignments. Once an assignment is due it will not be accepted later. This means you will never be missing an assignment. There are plenty of opportunities to demonstrate how brilliant you are in order to make up points but you will never make up an assignment in this class.
Ending on a positive note. One, I believe in when you work, work hard and when you play, play hard. We will do both in this class. Two, if you have an alterantive to showing me that you know and understand something tell me and we may use it. Three, if we are discussing, you are getting a grade. I give participation grades because I do not beleive that you are leaning if you are not participating. Four, if you have a problem, come to me and lets talk-- nothing is written in stone. Finally, there are few things more important to me than you.