COM 101 Instructor Workshop

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COM 101 Instructor Workshop

• May 13, 2008

Welcome New Instructors!
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Introductions

• Sharing of Inspirational Quotes
• Facilitated by David Lau

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COM 101 Overview

• Open vs. Connection Sections
• Registration Process
• Team Teaching
• Instructor Salary
• Instructor Resources
• Online Handbook
• Facilitator Manual CD ROM
• Instructor Roundtables

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Instructor Expectations

• Uniform curriculum
• Classes must meet each week with both instructors
  present
• Class sessions should be interactive
• Assignments must be returned within 1 week
• Instructors will use SAIL to submit mid-term and
  final grades

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On Course by Skip Downing

• Personal Responsibility
• Self-Motivation
• Self-Management
• Interdependence
• Self-Awareness
• Lifelong Learning
• Emotional Intelligence

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On Course by Skip Downing

• Chapter components
• Focus Questions
• Quotes Cartoons
• Journal Entries
• Case Studies in Critical Thinking
• at Work
• One Students Story
• Wise Choices in College
• Topical exercise
• Technology exercise

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SAIL How-To

• www.oakland.edu

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COM 101 Instructor Workshop

• May 13, 2008

Welcome Returning Instructors!
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Introductions

• Name
• Department
• Semesters Teaching COM 101

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Instructor Updates

• Instructor Expectations
• On Course Self-Assessment
• Substitute instructors
• One week grading turn-around
• Continued use of 5th edition of On Course
• Grading
• Do not need to send copies of grades to Sara
• Consult Sara before giving I grades
• Instructor Website

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Instructor Updates

• Moodle Workshops
• A/V Equipment Requests/Training
• Keys to classrooms
• Communication with instructors (via email
  campus mail)
• No course funding (50) this year
• Overview Task List Additional Information
• Connections Instructors

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Required Course Components

• Attendance In-Class Participation
• Journal Entries (6)
• Additional Assignments (0-3)
• Quizzes, faculty interviews, campus events, etc.
• The C.L.A.W. Series Workshop (1)
• Group Project
• Diversity or Community Service topics suggested
• Final Reflection Assignment
• Pre/Post On Course Assessment

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On Course Assessment Results
187 Students with Both Pre Post Test Results
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Group Project Possible Ideas

• Diversity scavenger hunt
• Attend diverse student organization meeting
• Research/presentation on a stereotype or
  diversity topic
• Video of what diversity means to the group
• Develop a skit on diversity
• Participate in community service activity and
  present on what learned

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Final Reflection Assignment Possible Ideas

• Collage about their first semester
• Letter to Fall 2009 freshmen class with tips and
  advice
• Letter to themselves about what they learned in
  their first semester
• Timeline of their first semester

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Q A

• What questions do you have?

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Wrap-Up

• Prize Drawings
• COM 101 Instructor Workshop
• Monday, August 4, 2008
• 830 a.m. 430 p.m.
• Pioneer Room, REC
• Facilitated by Eileen ZamoraProfessor, English
  Learning Skills Southwestern College
• Wellness Classroom Technology Training
• Immediately following August workshop (430-500
  p.m.)

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Thank You!

• Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and
  three-fourths theater.
• -Gail Godwin