DEPARTMENT HOMEWORK POLICY

2011 - 2012

The geography department policy on assignments and deadlines is as follows:

A) Assignment are expected to be completed and submitted on the date assigned by the teacher.  The expectation that assignments are completed by a specific time may be included in the evaluation rubric. Assignments in some cases may still be handed-in after the due date.  In most cases, after an assignment has been evaluated and returned to the students, the teacher will not accept a late assignment.  

B) Whenever possible. Students should notify the teacher beforehand about the need to miss any classes Students participating in extra-curricular activities during class times are required to notify the teacher beforehand, and to present the appropriate excuse slip: failure to do so will result in a zero grade for any missed assignments.

Students are responsible for all work missed because of extra-curricular activities.

C) In the event a student is expected to be absent from the school for more than two or three classes, parents are requested to contact the school to arrange for work to be sent home.

D) Missed work: If students are not legitimately absent during oral presentations, process work or tests, they will lose whatever mark has been assigned. If students are legitimately absent, which means a note is provided; they will have the opportunity to make up work.

E) Following an absence it is the students responsibility to contact the teacher as soon as possible to determine what work was missed, to arrange alternative assignments or negotiate deadlines.

Failure to do so may result in a zero grade, rather than a No Mark Assigned, for work missed.

F) Assignments must be given to the teacher directly. Students may not put material in a teacher's letter box, and no teacher will be responsible for work that is submitted in this manner. 

G) Plagiarism is the unaccredited use of another's ideas - whether copied from a text, such as an encyclopedia, copied during a testing situation, downloaded from the Internet or borrowed from another student. This is intellectual theft.  Work which reveals plagiarism will result in a mark of zero being assigned. Students who lend work are equally culpable and may also receive a mark of zero.