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Welcome to the SMC support site for www.4facutly.org,
and online professional development course for California Community
College Faculty. This course intended for anyone currently
teaching at a community college or interested in doing so. In
particular, we encourage new SMC faculty to take this course, but all
faculty and prospective faculty are also welcome.
You can access all of the course
content for free at www.4faculty.org.
Just visit the site and create an account for yourself. You'll find
reading assignments, links to web sites, self-quizzes, and links to SMC
information.
The course has been authored by
faculty, staff, and administrators at 10 California Community Colleges,
including SMC, and is hosted by the Riverside Community College
District. In this self-paced online course
filled with links to SMC-specific information, you will:
- Gain
familiarity with the SMC community and campus,
- Learn
more about current trends, theories, and best practices in teaching
and learning,
- Learn
more about the various student service programs on campus,
professional development, and college governance issues,
- Fulfill
your individual flex requirement,
- Access
resources on nearly all aspects of California Community College
teaching in one place,
- Access
information about SMC resources for you and your students in one
place,
- Connect
with colleagues who share your professional interests.
There are currently 10 lessons in
the course:
- Welcome
to the College
- Introduction
to the Community College, its Students and its Faculty
- Planning
Your First Class
- Building
Lessons and Learning Modules to Serve Your Objectives
- Using
Technology to Enhance Effective Teaching
- Helping
Students Succeed in Your Course
- Support
Services for Students
- Assessing
the Effectiveness of Your Course
- College
Governance and Professional Life
- Surviving
the Journey
Work is nearly completed now
(summer 2002) on updating this outline to include more topics as well as
to create tracks for different faculty—veterans vs. first timers.
For more details, please see http://www.4faculty.org
or contact Jennifer Merlic, (310) 434-4616, merlic_Jennifer@smc.edu.
Note: The Index
of SMC-specific links gives a quick view of the content that is specific to Santa Monica College.
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