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Promote Academic Honesty

Jessie Yaun – Spanish Teacher / Department ChairEmail: jyaun@tmapchs.org

Ali Campot– Spanish Teacher Email: acampot@tmapchs.org

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: mgarcia@tmapchs.org

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