The Tenets
What is the STEM School's mission statement and where can you find it?
"To develop and share a new paradigm for world-class education using technology as a gateway to cultivate students’ inquisitive nature, exercise innovation, think critically, and collaborate to become leaders who are self-sufficient learners with the same passion as Chattanooga’s Renaissance."
Found on STEM School's website - homepage, under first video
What is "Common Knowledge" in terms of academic plagiarism?
Information that most people know or can easily find in a number of sources. (Can you think of some examples?)
A student is caught wandering around
the hallway during class time.
Name the offense and intervention.
Skipping Class - Level III behavior.
Intervention: Admin lunch detention, parent call
How can you access the student handbook via STEM School's website?
Stemschool.hcde.org --> Info --> General --> Student Handbook
Where can you find information on process skills / tenets on STEM School's website? (Hint: you will need this page for the rest of this Jeopardy category)
stemschool.hcde.org --> Framework --> Curricular --> Essential Skills and Processes
You are writing a paper for your history class about World War II and mention that the US entered the war after Pearl Harbor was bombed. You do not include a citation for this information.
Is this plagiarism? Why or why not?
No, this is considered common knowledge.
List all of the offenses that could lead to
a phone call home.
Excessive Level I/II behavior infractions
Skipping class
Profanity
Misuse of tech
Level III academic - 2 ERs with M or BBs remaining
Level III dress code - repeated violations
Any bullying incident
Here at STEM, we have four famous scientists that represent each letter of STEM. List the full names of all four of these scientists. (Must be spelled correctly)
Mabel Staupers
Nikola Tesla
Albert Einstein
Maryam Mirzakhani
What are the three main process skills (tenets) we will focus on in 10th grade?
Accountability, Evaluation, Failure Redefined
You're not very good at grammar, and you find it difficult to proofread your own work. You ask a friend to look over your paper for you, and you specifically tell him to only correct little things like punctuation and spelling. When he gives it back to you, he's made a lot of corrections, sometimes changing around and adding entire sentences. You submit your paper.
Is this plagiarism? Why or why not?
YES! "Changing around and adding entire sentences" is the give-away here. Those are his ideas, not yours.
What is the intervention for the first time that a 10th grade student is out of dress code?
Teacher lunch detention - yup... no warning in 10th grade :)
What are the 4 offenses that are considered "zero tolerance offenses" in the district?
Alcohol, drugs, weapons, assault
What are the three overarching process skills (tenets) that govern STEM School's instructional model?
Collaboration, Critical Thinking, Innovation
Joe Shmoe has written a paper on the Industrial Revolution for his English class. He then must write a paper for U.S. History. He reuses one page from his English-class paper.
Is this plagiarism? Why or why not?
Yes - this is called self-plagiarism and is considered academic dishonesty. It is considered plagiarism because you are passing off previously written work as new ideas.
A student is assigned lunch detention by a teacher for repeatedly leaving the classroom without permission (repeated Level I unexcused classroom time). The student decides not to come to lunch detention when assigned. What is the offense and intervention?
It would escalate to a Level III - teacher calls home, teacher assigns lunch detention with admin.
(Wouldn't it be easier to just go to the lunch detention with the teacher in the first place?)
How many intervention tables are there for 10th grade and what does each table cover?
Four:
General behavior, academic, dress code, bullying/harassment
In one sentence, and in your group's own words, summarize the "model, guide, monitor, release" progression that STEM uses in relation to the tenets.
Responses will vary -
Students have more support from teachers in their 9th grade year and particularly in PBLs. They have more accountability as the school year goes on, and ultimately as they move through 9-12th grade. The goal is for students to be mostly self-directed by senior year.
It's the day math projects are due, and you have not even started on yours yet. You get a friend to send you their project to use as a guide. You end up running out of time before class and submit your friend's project as your own work.
Is this plagiarism? Why or why not? If yes, who will
get in trouble for academic dishonesty?
Yes - this is obviously not your own work. BOTH students will get in trouble for academic dishonesty - the student who sent you their work, and you if you submit it as your own.
At the end of a quarter, you and your parent/guardian might get emails from some 10th grade teachers about missing/BB grades. What Level I behavior would earn you an email like this after the first (or any) quarter?
Student has 2 or more Missing or BB grades in a class.
Describe how the grading scale has changed from last year to this year. Be specific about letter grades as well as how this changes BB, BA, PR, and AD.
Last year, grade scale was:
93-100 A
85-92 B
75-84 C
70-74 D
69 and below F
Now it goes in 10s (90-100, 80-89, etc.)
BB = 50, BA = 60, PR = 80, AD is still 100