PARTICIPATION
Cooperation, Attendance, Professional attitude
200 pts
These points are awarded based on how you attend and perform in lectures and laboratories. Here are some of the things to avoid in order to earn these points:
1. Carrying on private conversations or jokes during lectures, laboratories or videos.
Such activity disrupts classes, interferes with the normal flow of lectures and reduces efficiency of classroom instruction and learning. Most students attend Santa Rosa Junior College in hopes of preparing for a future career. Private conversations and inappropriate joking and laughing disrupts classroom activities and creates a hostile work environment.
2. Coming late to lectures or laboratories.
By arriving late, valuable material and announcements will be missed, and tardy students cause considerable distraction.
3. Leaving lectures or laboratories early.
Your first appointment will be the classes in which you have enrolled. Be there on time and for the entire period. If you have finished your work, it will be an excellent time to review the material. Surprise quizzes will be given on unspecified dates during the last half hour of laboratories.
4. Taking frequent or daily breaks during class lectures.
These kind of breaks do not indicate some sort of necessity, but disrespect for other students and the instructor. If someone has a medical need to leave their seat during class, they should inform the instructor and sit near an entrance door to make their exits non-obtrusive.
5. Attendance
You will be required to sign in for every lecture and attendance will be taken at every lab. Each lecture and lab session ia worth 4 points.
There are activities that will work in your favor:
5. Paying attention to the instructor, instructional aide or a classmate discussing a point..
By keeping in focus and concentrating on lectures, questions being asked by others or pertinent discussions, your own achievement will be enhanced, and that translates into higher grades.
6. Asking appropriate questions that adds to the learning of material under consideration.
Asking questions that are to the point, enhance learning of the material by you and your classmates. This also translates into generally higher grades.
7. Contributing constructively to classroom discussions.
By adding your comments enhances lectures if the comments are to the point and relevant to the discussion. Bringing up topics that lead the class into material that is not closely tied into the topic at hand, as interesting as it may be, tends to be distractive to your fellow students.
One characteristic of a successful student is maintaining a healthy skepticism for all points discussed. You are here to question knowledge, not to worship it. However, you must show consideration and respect for the knowledge and training of instructors, even though may disagree with some of the things said in class. Remember that new advances in understanding are often made when new ideas are expressed that go against established viewpoints. Don't reject ideas just because they are new and go against tradition, give them careful consideration before drawing a conclusion.
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