Jessie Yaun – Spanish Teacher /
Department Chair
Email: jyaun@tmapchs.org
Ali Campot– Spanish Teacher
Email: acampot@tmapchs.org
Marielys Garcia: Student Dean
(former Spanish Teacher /
Department Chair)
Email: mgarcia@tmapchs.org
Website:
https://sites.google.com/site/pr
omotingacademichonesty/
Thurgood Marshall Academy Public
Charter High School
2427 Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. SE
Washington, DC 20020
Promote
Academic
Honesty
Do you feel…?
 Administrators
lack sufficient understanding of
foreign language instruction?
 Students
lack an awareness of what academic
dishonesty is?
 Parents
have good intentions in supporting their
child, but lack appropriate tools?
Questions
 Department
 Administration
 How
reach-out & get support?
 Students
 How
get buy-in?
 Parents
 How
reach-out?
Promote Academic Success
through Academy Integrity
 Develop
an Academic Dishonesty Policy
 Collaborate
with your administration
 Educate
students and parents about
policy / academic integrity
 Help
 End
students execute academic honesty
Goal: promote academic success
through academic integrity
Policy Creation: Cycles of
Communication
 Question
 Prioritize
 Evaluate
 Reassess
/ Refine
Policy Creation: Questions
 List
inquiries and questions for
administrative team in written form
 Meet
with as many administrators and
department members
 Consider
student work samples
Policy Creation: Prioritize
 After
meeting, create priority areas: student and
administration
 Review
 Ground
common issues with academic honesty
samples
 Assess
 Key
discussion in data and specific work
student shortcomings
actions for administrators
Policy Creation: Evaluate Next
Steps
 Establish
clear action plan for Department
 Consider
 Review
follow up communication
priority areas and key takeaways
(Has anything changed from original
plans/ concerns?)
Policy Creation: Reassess/ Refine
 Frequent
check-in’s with various
administrators
 Assess
impact of changes on micro and
macro level
 Solicit
feedback
 Consider
PD for administrators
 Constant
reflection!
Policy Creation: Products
 Academic
Dishonesty Policy.docx
 TMA_PeerRevisionProtocol.doc
Student Lesson:
Warm-up
 What
is academic dishonesty?
 Non-accusatory what-if situations
 Ex: What if someone looks on paper?
Responsibility? Violate code of
conduct?
 Aunt Sally
 How should respond (student
advocacy)
 Students translate 2 sentences
 Discussion
Student Lesson
 1st:
Read about machine translation and
inaccuracies
 “Language
is simply too complicated for
machines to understand all of the
vocabulary, grammar, context, and
nuances in the source and target
languages.”
 Answer questions about reading
Student Lesson
 2nd:
 Use
Translator demonstration
same sentences from warm-up
 “I like to attend charity events, drink
water, skateboard and eat food.”
 How are you (permanently)? OR What
are you like (permanently)?
 Use 2 popular online translators:
Google Translator & Free Translation
Student Lesson
 3rd:
Read & discuss a blog “Would it be cheating if I
used an online translator for my French project?”
 http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=2
0100412095613AAQEq9H
 13 year old –I don’t understand
 Students respond – inaccuracies, academic
dishonesty & detection & recourses
 Mini-closing
 Based on blog… are translators reliable? Will
your teacher notice? Is it considered cheating
(how so)? What should do to avoid problems?
Student Lesson
 4th:
YouTube Video “A Wicked Deception”
 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BlJs
PEgXhC0
 Mini-closing: students reflect
 Discussion
Student Lesson
 5th:
Consequences
 What
 Why
are they?
do they exist?
 Hypo:
What if Ms. Yaun used translators
all through college and was never told
this is wrong?
Student Lesson
 Closing:
Reflection (to keep for records)
 Demonstrate
Why?
 Violation
met objectives with a translator?
of Code of Conduct?
 Ineffectiveness
& inaccuracies
 Policies
 Too
much “help”
 Advocating
 Recourses
for self
of action if in doubt
 Unanswered
questions
Student Lesson: Homework: Parent
Outreach
 Take
materials home (minus final reflection)
 Share with parents/guardians
 Be clear: preventative exercise to
promote academic honesty; not
accusatory
 Is receiving info helpful? How so?
 Unanswered questions?
 Leave information for parent to reach
you
 Allows for a dialogue
Paraphrased parent
response
The video has been very informative. I am
so pleased my child is at a school that cares
about quality education. I am so grateful
this school is standing strong about values,
integrity and honesty. It is wonderful to
know he is receiving a quality education.
He now knows to be careful about the
resources he uses.
Writing Folders
 Keep
students organized
 Encourage
 Improve
Academic Integrity
project turn-in rate
Writing Folders: How do I help Lulu
stay organized?
 Writing
folders!

Project description & due dates

Outlines

Word banks and vocabulary lists

Drafts
Writing Folders: How do I provide
Lulu with motivation write in-class?
 Award
extra credit points with stickers!
 Hold
an Awards Ceremony midway
through the project
 Allow
students to listen to music
 Provide
regular feedback
Writing Folders: How can I scaffold
these assignments for Lulu?
 Sample
text
 Outlines
and guiding questions
 Word
banks
 Editing
Symbols
Writing Folders: How can I differentiate
for Lulu who writes at a quicker pace?
 Peer-editing
/ Peer-review
 Have
HW assignments ready
 Allow
students to work ahead
Writing Folders: Online
www.turnitin.com
Data – Spanish I
97%
100%
97%
93%
97%
90%
90%
79%
80%
70%
73%
68%
73%
70%
58%
60%
50%
39%
40%
30%
20%
10%
Q1 (No WF)
2010-2011
Q2
Q1
Q2
2011-2012
Spanish I Project Data
Passed
Turned-in
Passed
Turned-in
Passed
Turned-in
Passed
Turned-in
Passed
Turned-in
Passed
Turned-in
0%
Q1
Q2
2012-2013
Process
 Policies
and Protocol
 Student
Lesson
 Writing
Folders
Q&A
 Questions?
 Concerns?
 Clarification
Needed?
 https://sites.google.com/site/promotinga
cademichonesty/
Closing
 Evaluation
Form