1. To get to know you as a unique person
My Goals
To get to know you as a unique person
Create an effective learning environment
Teach to mastery
I care about you as a person and I want you to succeed. This is the most important thing to me as a teacher
Most of the teaching will be done by you. You affect your learning more than I do, I try to create an effective learning environment.
I want to get into the habit of checking and rechecking your work until everyone is comfortable.

2. Class Website: www.cchamberlainmbhs.pbworks.com

3. District Policies Student/Teacher Communication
District has specified that all student-teacher communication must occur in-school during school hours.
No , texting, facebook
After hours, all communication must go through parents

4. Boyd Policies Electronics Gum
Put away, Not in use, In use = confiscate
Cafeteria
Gum
Food & Drink – water only in class & halls
Can’t enter instructional areas without pass before 9:05am
No pills of any kind on your person on campus (including cough drops)
Parents have to bring and sign, go to nurses office

5. Boyd Policies Textbooks Assigned to you on 9/1, need ID
Don’t leave in room
Can’t borrow one of mine
Credit only for returning your own

6. Class Policies All homework due before Tardy bell Graded Papers
Drop in Homework basket (includes makeup work), pts off
Graded Papers
You pick up from Graded work crate
Benefits: grade check, test prep, tutoring
Thrown out at end of 9 weeks

7. Class Policies Late Work Missed Assignments Missed Tests & Labs
1 week to make up tests and labs
2 weeks to make up classwork and quizzes
Missed Assignments
Pick up from crate or website
Missed Tests & Labs
Make up during Make-up session before or after school

8. Class Policies Formative vs. Summative (50/50)
For example: 16 vs. 8 assignments
Random grading except tests, quizzes, and labs – “everything counts for something”
Grades - HAC

9. Class Policies Warm-ups grading unannounced
Name, Date, Period on everything you hand in
No name folder, 10% penalty

10. Class Procedures
bell (start Monday with Intro and practice)
Discuss Warm-up
Review Agenda
Student Activities
Pack up when told
Dismissal by the teacher not the bell

11. Advice
I have to give you the grade you earn, your 1st semester is the most important
Don’t settle for any Summative Zeros
Get organized – “10% grade impact”
Your success depends more on yourself than on me.
Consistent effort

12. Advice
Every Biology teacher does things a little differently. We won’t be doing the same things on the same day as your friends

13. Discipline
I have to a “healthy” amount of discipline in my class in order to be myself and have fun.
Review Behavior Contract
What kind of behavior would you expect from a student that respects his or her teacher?

14. Discipline Everyone starts off each week with 2 BioBucks
One is lost each time you choose to not follow the Behavior Contract
72 possible BioBucks in the school year
What kind of behavior would you expect from a student that respects his or her teacher?

15. BioBucks What can you do with BioBucks? Update totals weekly - posted
Trade them in for class privileges
Day of Electronics – 10
Day of Food & Drink – 10
Hall Pass – 5
Extra Credit – Summative!
Update totals weekly - posted
What kind of behavior would you expect from a student that respects his or her teacher?

16. Office Referrals Significance of an office referral
Getting into my stuff
Major classroom problems – language, physical abuse, inappropriateness
Excessive classroom disruptions, a problem.

17. Miscellaneous Room Smell? Grade less, discuss more
All homework, classwork, assignments, quizzes are preparations for tests
Multiple test versions

18. Miscellaneous Extra Credit Various infrequent EC opportunities
Supplies
Not individual
Column in gradebook

19. Extra Credit – due in one week
1st – Box of Tissues (200+) or Quart/Gallon ziplock bags
2nd – Pack of glue sticks or Box of Tissues
4th – Colored markers (10 pack)

20. Supplies Extra Credit – due in one week 5th – Hand Sanitizer 8-10oz
6th – Colored/Map pencils (12 pack)
7th – Pack of regular pencils
Or Crayons

21. The Power of Vision
The difference between a good and poor student is vision. Each has a vision of what they want to be, the kind of student, where they want to go near term and long term. With no vision, we fail because we can’t put in the effort it takes to succeed. Most kids get their vision from their parents but those who don’t get it from home usually get it from somewhere, another adult in their life or occasionally it grows from within themselves. School is work and to apply oneself to work, vision is required.