promote academic honesty jessie yaun – spanish teacher / department chair email: [email protected]...
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Promote Academic Honesty
Jessie Yaun – Spanish Teacher / Department ChairEmail: [email protected]
Ali Campot– Spanish Teacher Email: [email protected]
Thurgood Marshall Academy Public Charter High School2427 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SEWashington, DC 20020
Marielys Garcia: Student Dean (former Spanish Teacher / Department Chair)Email: [email protected]
Website: https://sites.google.com/site/promotingacademichonesty/
Do you feel…?
Administrators lack sufficient understanding of foreign language instruction?
Students lack an awareness of what academic dishonesty is?
Parents have good intentions in supporting their child, but lack appropriate tools?
Questions Department
Administration How reach-out & get support?
Students How get buy-in?
Parents How reach-out?
Promote Academic Success through Academy Integrity Develop an Academic Dishonesty Policy
Collaborate with your administration
Educate students and parents about policy / academic integrity
Help students execute academic honesty
End Goal: promote academic success through academic integrity
Policy Creation: Cycles of Communication Question
Prioritize
Evaluate
Reassess / Refine
Policy Creation: Questions List inquiries and questions for
administrative team in written form
Meet with as many administrators and department members
Consider student work samples
Policy Creation: Prioritize After meeting, create priority areas: student and
administration
Review common issues with academic honesty
Ground discussion in data and specific work samples
Assess student shortcomings
Key actions for administrators
Policy Creation: Evaluate Next Steps Establish clear action plan for
Department
Consider follow up communication
Review priority areas and key takeaways (Has anything changed from original plans/ concerns?)
Policy Creation: Reassess/ Refine
Frequent check-in’s with various administrators
Assess impact of changes on micro and macro level
Solicit feedback
Consider PD for administrators
Constant reflection!
Policy Creation: Products Academic Dishonesty Policy.docx TMA_PeerRevisionProtocol.doc
Student Lesson: Warm-up
What is academic dishonesty? Non-accusatory what-if situations
Ex: What if someone looks on paper? Responsibility? Violate code of conduct?
Aunt SallyHow should respond (student
advocacy) Students translate 2 sentences Discussion
Student Lesson 1st: Read about machine translation and
inaccuracies
“Language is simply too complicated for machines to understand all of the vocabulary, grammar, context, and nuances in the source and target languages.” Answer questions about reading
Student Lesson 2nd: Translator demonstration
Use same sentences from warm-up “I like to attend charity events, drink
water, skateboard and eat food.” How are you (permanently)? OR What
are you like (permanently)?Use 2 popular online translators:
Google Translator & Free Translation
Student Lesson 3rd: Read & discuss a blog “Would it be cheating if
I used an online translator for my French project?” http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?
qid=20100412095613AAQEq9H13 year old –I don’t understand
Students respond – inaccuracies, academic dishonesty & detection & recourses
Mini-closingBased on blog… are translators reliable? Will
your teacher notice? Is it considered cheating (how so)? What should do to avoid problems?
Student Lesson 4th: YouTube Video “A Wicked Deception”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlJsPEgXhC0 Mini-closing: students reflectDiscussion
Student Lesson 5th: Consequences
What are they? Why do they exist? Hypo: What if Ms. Yaun used
translators all through college and was never told this is wrong?
Student Lesson Closing: Reflection (to keep for records)
Demonstrate met objectives with a translator? Why?
Violation of Code of Conduct?
Ineffectiveness & inaccuracies
Policies
Too much “help”
Advocating for self
Recourses of action if in doubt
Unanswered questions
Student Lesson: Homework: Parent Outreach Take materials home (minus final reflection) Share with parents/guardians
Be clear: preventative exercise to promote academic honesty; not accusatory
Is receiving info helpful? How so? Unanswered questions? Leave information for parent to reach you Allows for a dialogue
Paraphrased parent responseThe video has been very informative. I am so pleased my child is at a school that cares about quality education. I am so grateful this school is standing strong about values, integrity and honesty. It is wonderful to know he is receiving a quality education. He now knows to be careful about the resources he uses.
Writing Folders Keep students organized
Encourage Academic Integrity
Improve project turn-in rate
Writing Folders: How do I help Lulu stay organized? Writing folders!
Project description & due dates
Outlines
Word banks and vocabulary lists
Drafts
Writing Folders: How do I provide Lulu with motivation write in-class? Award extra credit points with stickers!
Hold an Awards Ceremony midway through the project
Allow students to listen to music
Provide regular feedback
Writing Folders: How can I scaffold these assignments for Lulu? Sample text
Outlines and guiding questions
Word banks
Editing Symbols
Writing Folders: How can I differentiate for Lulu who writes at a quicker pace?
Peer-editing / Peer-review
Have HW assignments ready
Allow students to work ahead
Writing Folders: Online
www.turnitin.com
Data – Spanish I
Process Policies and Protocol
Student Lesson
Writing Folders
Q & A Questions?
Concerns?
Clarification Needed?
https://sites.google.com/site/promotingacademichonesty/
Closing Evaluation Form