Expectations: Student Goals:

 

1. All New Jersey first year biology students must successfully complete the course requirements for Biology I in order to graduate high school.
2. Remember to social distance
3. Maintain cleanliness: wash your hands, clean your desks periodically
4. All school policies passed by the Board of Education on Covid-19 apply
5. All students must arrive on time to class
6. Cell phones: away and on silent.  Please refrain from being on your phone at all.
7. Be quietly seated and prepared with all necessary material at the start of class.
8. Respect the people, equipment, all teachers and the property of Brick High School.
9. Please speak at a volume appropriate for the activity.
10. NO F Bombs or any other profanity
11. Listen attentively to directions and respond the first time directions are given.
12. DO NOT eat or drink in the lab classroom. State Health Department regulation.
13. Your behavior must reflect the contents of the student handbook.
14. All work assigned must be handed in at the end of class or you will receive a zero for the day and will be unable to make it up!!
15. Achieve academic success in all my course work
16. Develop and use habits of a successful learner
17. Develop positive character traits
18. Become self-reliant and responsible
19. DON’T BE LAZY AND OR TAKE THE EASY WAY OUT OF ASSIGNMENTS

 

• Parental/ Guardian Responsibilities:

1. Ensure my student has all the supplies he or she needs.
2. Ask my student about school and look at their work.
3. Contact my student’s teacher if I have any questions or concerns.
4. Provide a positive learning environment where education is encouraged.

 

Ø  Assignments & Projects:

• All in class or virtual assignments will be handed in on time and will be completed accurately.
• Late work will be accepted for half credit for up to one day.  After that NO LATE work will be accepted.
• If you are absent it is your responsibility to make up any missed assignments. A VALID excuse note must be presented within 2 days upon return
• If absence results in a missed test or quiz, you are responsible and expected to make it up.  Tests that are not made up within 1 week you will receive a “0” for a grade. 

 

Ø  Grading Policy

•  Summative Assessments: 60%                                          
•  Formative Assessments: 40%

 

Ø  Materials

• Textbook, notebook or 3 ring binder, folder, pen/ pencil, colored pencils

• Text book must be covered at all time.  Books left in the classroom are your responsibility!!

 

Ø  Contact Information

            Email: [email protected]