Tips on How to Succeed in my Classroom

The first and most important point is: if you do not understand something, ask questions, ask me to repeat. You are here to learn and the professor is there to help you in this process.
If you want to socialize, sleep, read books, surf the net: do it outside. Time spent in class is used to learn about the subject. If you disrupt the class by talking, sleeping, text-messaging, arriving late or leaving early, you would be disturbing your fellow students and the linearity of the class, and that is unacceptable behavior.
Do not use class time to study or prepare for other classes. You will get points off after the first warning. Also, class time should be spent taking notes from the current lecture and NOT copying notes taken by a fellow student during my previous lecture. Use the bookstore's low-cost service to make copies of notes.
Give yourself adequate study time per week for each one unit of a course. Review notes as soon as possible after lecture in order to finish incomplete diagrams and sentences while you still remember what they mean.
If you are having difficulties with the course, ask me for help or advice early in the semester. Do not coast through most of the course and then, with a week or two remaining in the term, ask me what you can do to improve your grade. I strongly urge you to seek help if your first exam grade indicates you are doing poorly.
An ethical note: looking at a fellow student's paper during an exam is cheating; using crib notes is cheating. Consequences of cheating will be an automatic "F" and a report filed with the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and Dean of Students.
No eating or reading during class. No listening to headsets or web surfing of any sort. Stay alert.
Be sure your cell phone or pager alert tone or any electronic device is OFF during class.
Do not be late to class. Arriving after class has started is disturbing both to me and to other students.
Coming to class is essential for passing the class. Historically, those who cut class, fail the class.

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