Attendance
Students are expected to attend class daily. When students are unable to attend class, they are responsible for making up any missed work. For every day absent, one shop week is allowed to make up assignments.
Tardiness
All students are expected to be on time for class. If a student is tardy, they must have a pass. Tardiness without a pass will result in a lower grade and/or disciplinary action.
Rules
In addition to all rules stated within the Minuteman Student Handbook, all rules of the DVC classroom must be followed.
Professionalism
Students will be expected to behave in a businesslike manner in the classroom which includes staying on task, avoiding disruptive behavior, treating others with respect, not talking over others while discussing/analyzing designs, not using a smartphone (unless granted permission by teacher), not playing video games or surfing the web (unless part of the current assignment), and cleaning up the classroom at the end of each day. The classroom and each student’s work area must be clean with all papers put away. Anytime a student needs to leave the classroom, a pass is required.
Consequences for playing video games/or watching videos, unauthorized use of cell phones:
- First Offense - verbal warning
- Second Offense - loss of computer privileges for the day
- Third Offense - Teacher detention
- Fourth Offense - Discipline Referral to the Dean.
File Management
All students are required to have all their projects saved in their own folder on OneDrive and/or on Adobe Creative Cloud.
NOTE: Files saved directly to the laptops will be purged as needed for disc space.
Materials Required
- Pen, pencils, and erasers (Each student will be given a set of drawing pencils and erasers at the beginning of the school year.) If lost, the student will be responsible for replacement.
- Sketchbook (Will be distributed at the beginning of the year).
- A creative and open-minded thought process.
Cheating and Plagiarism Policy
“Plagiarism is the unauthorized use or close imitation of the languages and thoughts of another author or creator and the representation of these as one’s own original work. It is the false assumption of authorship; the wrongful act of taking the product of another person’s mind and presenting it as one’s own.” ©1991, Webster’s Seventh New Collegiate Dictionary, Merriam & Co. Publishing, NY, NY; p.646
Copying someone else’s writing, art or design work either intact or with inconsequential changes and adding one’s name to the result constitutes plagiarism. Plagiarism will result in immediate failure of an assignment, project quest and/or test in addition to disciplinary action.
After School Help:
Every Thursday from 2:35 PM to 3:30 PM or by appointment.