Academic Honesty

Academic Honesty can be understood in terms of not cheating or copying other students' work. But it is so much more then this. It can be understood in terms of not resubmitting an assignment that was already use by your for another assignment. I have never thought about it in these terms before. I always understood it to mean that we are simply not cheating or copying. But taken in these terms, it really challenges the framework of morals that we hold students and even ourselves to. 


I have struggled with knowing how to teach this to students. It is such an important topic that I cannot ignore it yet it must be taught. I believe that the best way to teach about academic honesty is to actually teach about it. Informing your students about this issue is important because it helps them to understand what it looks like. Students may think that because something is never addressed, like resubmitting an assignment, then it must be okay. As a teacher, teaching on this topic for a couple hours at the beginning of the year will inform my students of what I am looking for in their work as well as what is acceptable and what is not. They will then hopefully see the important of being honest with their school work.