Classroom Management Policies

Classroom Management Policies

Local campus facilitators: Please put all cell phones and pagers to vibrate during class time. You will be able to answer phone calls and e-mails during break. Attendance is mandatory and you are required to sign in each night. If you do not attend a class you will lose participation points for that night. Receipt of this syllabus take precedence over online materials and is our contract of agreement.

Oral presentations (week 5) are expected to be made in a professional manner using eye contact, voice fluctuation and visual aids. Each team must have one visual aid in addition to Power point. Specific Power point guidelines are attached. On presentation evenings, dress appropriately for an academic environment. Use common sense if your boss or CEO were here, would you feel comfortable in what you are wearing? No shorts, baseball hats, muscle t-shirts or offensive language printed on clothing. No jeans, flip-flops, cut-off anything or bellies for view.

These words may be part of your vocabulary but are not accepted in this classroom (and, you may wish to re-consider not using them in the rest of your life): sucks, bites, pissed, pissed-off, (unless you are British), huh, yea, gonna, gotta. All team members are to speak in team presentations. There are no incomplete grades issued for this course. All graded papers need to be written and cited according to APA standards. Links to the site are available from your student web-site. All papers are to be sent through Write-Point and/or CWE tutors and Plagiarism checker. I need to see evidence of these reviews along with your document. Not doing so will result in lost points from the paper value.

All written work is due by 11 pm the night of class each week; any work turned in after this point is late, which may result in 10% loss of credit for each day late. It is always best to turn in something on time, even if you think it is not perfect. (And, there is no such thing as perfect.) Rule of Exception The following exceptions apply to the late policy for written assignments (i.e., papers) and to discussion postings: 1) Military Deployment 2) Hospitalization 3) Family Emergency and/or Death for the immediate family 4) Acts of nature (i.e. California wildfires, Iowa floods) 5) Other (to be determined at the sole discretion of the instructor) In all cases, students will be required to fax documentation to the professor to support the extenuating circumstances.

VERY IMPORTANT: Please keep in mind that late postings or paper submissions due to travel, work demands, childcare issues or computer problems are specifically excluded from the exceptions list. In the latter case, for example, students are expected to avail themselves of alternative means of timely paper submission or posting such as use of computers at work, using a friend