Classroom Decorum
Salve Regina
University
In
order to try to insure that all class participants experience a stress-free and
non-distracting learning environment, the following Classroom Social Rules
& Regulations are put forth and your cooperation
solicited:
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The university prohibits the
consumption of food products in class. If you must have access to fluids while
in class, limit what you bring to bottled water and discard empties
appropriately when you leave.
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Please be on
time. If you arrive late be sure to just
take your seat quietly so as not to disrupt the lecture or other ongoing
activity.
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If you have special health
issues that may require you to leave in the middle of a lecture on some regular
basis, plan ahead for this, arrive early, and take a seat near the
door. Class members who repeatedly leave in
the middle of a lecture are distracting to both the professor and other class
members. If you have to leave the
class early to manage some personal matter, inform the professor ahead of time
and again sit near the door if you can.
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If you are unavoidably late,
and, if attendance has been taken, it is your responsibility to inform the professor
after class to have your presence in class credited.
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You are responsible for any
planned class activity such as a test or quiz even if you were absent from an
earlier class in which it was announced. You must contact a fellow class
member or the professor after an absence to inquire about what is going to be
happening when you return.
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Only one person should be
speaking at a time during a lecture, whether that is the professor or a fellow
class member commenting or asking a question. Having others talking while you
are speaking before a group is enormously distracting. It is distracting for the speaker
and for other students sitting in your vicinity who may be trying to understand
a difficult concept. Please
honor this important request.
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It is totally inappropriate
to work on other reading or writing activities at length while your
professor is lecturing. Leave the updating of your appointment
book, the studying for some other class, and the reading of material related to
another course to your own time out of class. It is enormously distracting for a
speaker when people do this.
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Would you believe my having
to mention sleeping in class? If you are too tired to be in class,
stay home. People who fall
asleep will be asked to leave. That
in itself is disruptive to the class activity. Related to this, the turning on
of a video clip also is not a signal to go back to bed. If you have a medical reason for such
behavior, inform the professor ahead of time.
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Active cell phones and
pagers are not welcome in the classroom.
If you regularly carry one of these devices during the day, make sure you
shut it off before coming in class.