Get Ready for Fall 2014 Faculty Development Day

We're just about three weeks out from our 2014 Fall Faculty Development Day and New Student Convocation, and the day has shaped up nicely. Take a look at what you can look forward to in the morning:

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and in the afternoon and evening:

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Make sure to check your MCC email for the formal invitation letter and a PDF of the program.

We're looking forward to seeing you on August 14!

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Please save the date for our Fall Faculty Development Day on Thursday, August 14!

We'll again be partnering with the New Student Convocation, which is exiting, and we're currently putting the finishing touches on the program for the day's activities.

You can look for the full program and a formal invitation letter in your MCC email box in June.

And check back here for some summertime Faculty Development!

A Very Successful Day

Yesterday's bi-annual Faculty Development Day was partnered--for the third year in a row--with our New Student Convocation. Although we haven't gotten the official evaluation data (check your e-mail for the evaluation link!), we got lots of great feedback throughout the day! Many thanks to all of you who came out, participated, and made the day a tremendous success for our students and for our faculty members.

We've still got VIP passes & lanyards in A210, so come down if you didn't get one!

We had a slideshow playing as you all entered for the College Update, but in case you missed it, check it out here for some important announcements and some great pictures of the day:



For more photos, visit out our Facebook photo album, and check back here later for more details recapping the day.

Have a terrific first week of classes!

This Fall We're Mapping it Back to Pedagogy

Last year MCC's Curriculum and Academic Policy Council (CAPC) finalized our Excellence in Teaching guidelines, which are informed by strength and ability in subject matter, pedagogy, assessment, and professionalism.

This Fall 2013 Faculty Development Day has an offering of fourteen MCC faculty led breakout sessions, each of which can be mapped back to strength and ability in pedagogy.

And now, here are the Fall 2013 Faculty Development Day Program (which you've received via e-mail and will be receiving via USPS) and the accompanying curriculum maps:

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Check back in early August for the remaining curriculum maps, and have a relaxing few weeks before the Fall semester begins!

We Want YOU to Welcome Students!

If you had a captive audience of hundreds of brand new freshmen students, what would you say? Would you offer some advice to avoid pitfalls? Share something exciting from your classroom or your work on campus? Or would you give a few words of inspiration?

Well, guess what? You'll have that captive audience at New Student Convocation on Thursday, August 15!

We're looking for faculty members interested in giving their own or a collaborative short welcome segment (2 - 5 minutes) at the Convocation ceremony. Each of the four short segments will exemplify our fantastic faculty here at the College by focusing on one of the four tenants of Excellence in Teaching: Subject Matter, Pedagogy, Assessment, and Professionalism.

So if you're a willing and able faculty member, we want you! Please contact Laura Power (that's me!) with the following:

• Your E.T.* tenant (will you talk about an exciting classroom project or technique, your work with students outside of the classroom, research in your field, or the transformations you're making in your classroom or department? whatever it is, we'll take it!)
• Your format (Ignite-style presentation [it's a built in five minutes!], speech, or something else altogether?)
• Your time preference (if you want 5 minutes, you've got it, but you're welcome to write and perform a 2-minute ditty about assessment [music department and Robert McCord, I'm looking at you…])
• Your buddy (this one's optional, but if you'd like to do a presentation with a colleague, go for it! [although that doesn't mean you get twice as much time. sorry.])

 Please contact me with your information by Friday, April 19, and thanks!

*You thought we couldn't possibly come up with another acronym here at MCC, didn't you? Well, we did. And it's E.T.