It‘s Never Too Early to Start with Academic Integrity

Academic Integrity Workshop for Secondary School Teachers

Workshop outline

Note: the workshop is also available in a form of a webinar “Integrity as a classroom”.

1. Plagiarism and academic integrity

• Objectives:
  • Clarify the terms “plagiarism” and “academic integrity”.
  • Discuss the borderline of plagiarism over specific examples.
• Approximate duration: 60 minutes
• Materials:
• Presentation: Where is the borderline of plagiarism?
• Working paper: Where is the borderline of plagiarism? – print as handouts for the students
• Suggested: white-board or flipchart to write down the results from the discussion over the examples of plagiarism.

2. Copyright in teacher’s work

• Objectives:
  • Use correctly sources created by other authors.
  • Easily share your work with the other people and protect your rights.
  • Understand the Creative Commons licenses and know how to use them.
• Approximate duration: 30 minutes
• Materials:
• Presentation: Copyright in teacher’s work
• Suggested: browser with the page https://org/choose projected to the audience, to show the use of Creative Commons for own work.

3. Contract cheating

• Objectives:
  • Understand what is contract cheating and its prevalence.
  • Know tips how to detect it.
  • Know tips how to prevent it.
• Approximate duration: 60 minutes
• Materials:
  • Presentation: Contract cheating

4. Conclusion

• Questions for discussion:
  • What are your take-aways from this workshop?
  • What is the core idea you will share with your colleagues?
  • How did the workshop influence your teaching practice? Is there anything you will change tomorrow?