Collection

2012 ASEE Zone 1 Conference

Authors

Martene Stanberry

should with your colleagues andpeople in the community. The first day of classes I introduced myself and made myexpectations and standards known. I gave all students a syllabus that clearly outlined my officelocation, office hours, prerequisites for the course, course objectives, the grading policy andgrading scale which will be used to determine their grades, online resources that supplement thecourse content, and a list of problems to do for practice to reinforce what is learned in theclassroom. This served as the contract between the students and I and it gave students a chance tokeep track of where they were throughout the semester and determine what they needed to do inorder to excel in the course. In addition, from the very first time I