Addressing a cheating student
If you can take a few minutes to speak to him or her to see if you can identify what type of help is needed, it might reduce the temptation and increase better study habits. Some students cheat simply due to ashamed of undeveloped learning habits. With encouragement, this might improve greatly.
I have been fortunate in my teaching experiences to not have had many students cheating (as far as I've seen, at least!), but I did have one situation where a student was cheating, but I could not prove it. I was unable to confront her about it directly because I had no "hard evidence". I took an opportunity during one particular class session to review the school policy and consequences on cheating, and stated that anyone thinking about doing i t might want to reconsider. It seemed to have worked at the time and I've had no issues with her since.
I evaluate the reason why they needed too cheat first. Then create a action plan with the student
