Teaching Integrity: Effective Responses to Cheating

It could be the paper downloaded from the Internet, the student texting during an exam or the fifth student to lose a grandparent in one week…

No matter what you teach, or whether you teach at a public or private college or university, you’re bound to run into cheating sooner or later.

Cheating runs rampant throughout our society, from captains of industry to college students, but that doesn’t make it any easier for academics and educators to deal with it.

It just makes it more important.

Learn a proactive approach to dealing with cheating in this 90-minute professional development seminar as Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D, reviews the common myths and misunderstandings about student cheating that limit your ability to respond effectively to the problem, and teach you a way forward based on teaching.

Tips for Teaching, Not Policing

Bertram Gallant, a national and international authority on academic integrity, will show you how to stop ignoring cheating, due to concerns about policing and bureaucratic entanglements, and start focusing on your critical role teaching tomorrow’s professionals about integrity and ethics.

Learn How Teaching Academic Integrity Reduces Cheating

Teaching Integrity: Effective Responses to Cheating will help you change your perspective and practice to promote student integrity, and show you how a positive approach can prevent negative consequences.

You’ll learn different ways to think about cheating, such as:

• Switching from a “crime and punishment” approach to emphasizing teaching and learning
• Examining your teaching to see if it encourages or facilitates cheating
• Identifying your typical response to cheating.

You’ll come away with techniques you can implement right away, including:

• New teaching strategies to encourage academic integrity and reduce cheating
• New responses to cheating designed to create opportunities for student learning
• Behavior you can model to demonstrate academic integrity in action.

About the Presenter

Tricia Bertram Gallant, Ph.D.,  has published widely on academic integrity, presented nationally and internationally on ethics and cheating and has given interviews on professional integrity to national and regional news organizations.  As the Academic Integrity Coordinator at the University of California, San Diego (UC San Diego), she has developed academic integrity policies and procedures, promoted a culture of academic integrity, managed a centralized office for dealing with student misconduct and acquired extensive practical experience with cheating, teaching and related issues.  Bertram Gallant is the Immediate Past Chair for the International Center for Academic Integrity's (ICAI) Advisory Council.

Is This Seminar For You?

Problems with cheating extend across all disciplines and onto all college and university campuses, whether public or private.

Basically, if you work with students, Teaching Integrity: Effective Responses to Cheating will help you, whether you’re a new faculty member or an experienced educator seeking to refine your practice.  People in the following positions will find this seminar particularly helpful:

• Lecturer
• Adjunct Faculty
• Assistant Professor
• Associate Professor
• Professor.

The Discussion Guide for Facilitators

To help you spread the word about professional integrity for students, you also receive of the Discussion Guide for Facilitators.  With tips on putting the strategies you’ve learned to work, promoting campus-wide discussion and sharing best practices, this guide can help you create a culture of integrity on your campus.

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