Academic Honesty

This topic was very eye opening to me. There are many things that I have done in my schooling that I never would have thought were considered as academic dishonesty. This is SUCH an important thing for teachers to teach their students starting at a very young age. We need to be instilling academic honesty in our students at such a young age because it is something they are going to run into throughout all of their years in middle school, high school and college. Teaching academic honesty is just another way to teach positive values to your students.

If the teacher is not resembling academic honesty in their own lives, their students might not take it seriously in their own lives. This is such an important thing for teachers to reflect when they are showing the students information. We have to model the types of behaviors we want our students to resemble in their own lives. Students know that it is wrong to lie and take things that are not theirs, so relate real- life situations to academic honesty when you are teaching your students to value it.