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MARKETING SYLABUS

Mr. Robert Kaechele 1.858.748.0245 ext. 5168 email: rkaechele@powayusd.com

Marketing is a people-oriented process of determining consumer needs and then directing products, ideas, and services to meet those needs. The Marketing class is designed to prepare motivated people for Marketing careers as well as early preparation for college Marketing courses. Instruction is provided for those students whom are seeking employment or are currently working in Marketing occupations, planning to major in Marketing or Business as well as meeting the informational needs of those students choosing to own their own business.

BASIC CLASS RULES

· Be in your seat and ready to learn when the bell rings.

· Come to class prepared. Bring your text, binder and handouts, in addition to all other needed materials (see below).

· Be respectful to others in the class, to the environment, and the computers.

· Eating and drinking must be done before class. Under no circumstances may you keep food or drinks by your work stations or near the computers.

SPECIFIC CLASS RULES

· PASSES - 3 student initiated passes will be allowed during each semester.

· ATTENDANCE - In adhering to the policies of Poway High, a student is late if s/he is not in the classroom when the bell rings. Detentions will be assigned for any unexcused tardies. Tardies and absences will affect the citizenship grade.

· MATERIALS - Students need a 3 ring binder with section dividers. Sections in the notebook may be labeled: VOCABULARY, HOMEWORK ASSIGNMENTS, NOTES, PAPERS HANDED BACK.

GRADES

· Students will be responsible for completing all work assigned in class.

· HOMEWORK POLICY – You are commonly assigned homework and classwork that is due the next day. Then it is checked on to see if you have completed the work. To encourage you as a student to complete the work, teachers will give you credit for completing this. You are pressured by this practice to copy, fake, or do a poor but neat job just to get the credit. You, as a student, should be provided with a better reason than credit. You need meaningful homework and classwork that you can complete within your own schedule. If students are provided with more intrinsic reasons, they will take pride in their work and walk away from the class with a more MEANINGFUL education. HERE IS AN EXAMPLE SCENARIO:

Student #1 who does the homework to learn, doesn’t need credit for motivation and will demonstate learning on tests with high scores.

Student #2 who does the homework for the only purpose of receiving credit will do poorly on the tests yet will have misrepresented high homework scores.

Student #3 who doesn’t bother to do the homework anyway will have low test scores and low homework scores

In all cases, giving credit for homework was not helpful.

Student #1 didn’t need to be motivated to learn by giving credit therefore it was unnecessary documenting on the teachers behalf.

Student #2 didn’t understand the homework but faked it or cheated which made their grade misrepresented and a waste of time on the students behalf.

Student #3 didn’t complete the work anyway which causes a waste of time on the teachers & the students behalf.

IMAGINE A CLASSROOM LIKE THE FOLLOWING:

The teacher gives lectures, says when the test will be, but provides no practice for the students to check their learning. Students who WANT to learn would be upset and want classwork/homework so that they could check their learning

& expand their knowledge. We all want to be smarter, don’t we?

Some students are saying “cool, the teacher doesn’t check homework or classwork”. True, but the work is still part of your notebook which is 25% of your overall grade.

I attest to having faith in a students ability to watch out for themselves. You can now experience the thrill of completing your homework/classwork TO LEARN, not by faking it to earn credits. The work is for you, not the teacher. If you, as the student, DO ALL THE HOMEWORK/CLASSWORK, then I don’t need to check it. If you don’t do the work and I’m giving you zeros and your getting zeros on the test, then what’s the point? STUDENTS ARE ALWAYS TOLD TO DO THEIR HOMEWORK/CLASSWORK BUT RARELY ASKED SO HERE IT GOES:

· NOTEBOOK POLICY – After you take a test, you will receive the same percentage grade on your notebook as you had respectively earned on your test, automatically. Optionally, you can have your notebook graded during the tutorial session that follows that chapter’s test. Learners should be able to receive 100% on their notebooks. It’s that simple!!!

· TESTS – Tests are for learners to show that they have learned. Tests count the most out of the overall grade.

· PROJECTS – Projects are worth approximately 30% of your overall grade. Projects are primarily based on team assignments and mini business simulations.

· ETHICS - Poway High enforces an ethics policy. Any student caught cheating will receive a zero on the assignment, be given a referral, receive a "U" in citizenship and will be on probation for the remainder of the course. Parents will be notified.

· PASS/FAIL - The student and the parent should be aware that this class may be taken for pass/fail rather than a letter grade, provided the student requests this rating the first week of class.

· TUTORIAL PERIODS - If a student falls below 70% s/he should come in for additional help/work during tutorial time. It is up to the student to make arrangements with me if s/he can't make it on the designated date. Tutorial days are generally scheduled for Wednesdays and Thursdays after school in the classroom. Students may also drop in at break and lunchtime if they make an appointment with me ahead of time. NOTE: all students are encouraged to come in for additional help when needed.

· CITIZENSHIP - The citizenship grade is affected by poor behavior, poor attendance leaving messes, coming to class unprepared, unproductively or for receiving an SRB (socially responsible behavior) violation.