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THE EVENING WEEKEND NEWS A Newsletter for Montgomery College Part-Time Faculty
Produced by the Rockville Campus Evening-Weekend Office
Charlotte Jacobsen, Editor May 2008 Gail Youth, Layout
was held in the Theatre Arts Arena on Wednesday, April 30. The event was presented by the Evening Weekend Office in cooperation with the offices of the Executive Vice President for Academic and Student Services and the Rockville Vice Presi-dent and Provost. More than 200 guests attended, including full and part-time faculty members, department staff, and campus and college administrators. Dr. John Coliton, Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, honored the 2008 CTL Rockville Part-time Faculty Fellows. Over sixty part-time faculty members were recognized for their length of service at Montgomery College and for exceptional accomplishments in their departments. A jazz trio under the direction of Professor Alvin Trask provided the perfect sound waves.
The Third Annual PartThe Third Annual Part--time Faculty Appreciation Reception time Faculty Appreciation Reception
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Adjunct Faculty Fellowship
By Dr. John Coliton Director, Center for Teaching and Learning
Congratulations to the fifteen adjunct faculty who have just completed the Adjunct Faculty Fellowship with the
CTL. The focus of the fellowship is on improving their
skills as educators, and with that goal in mind the partici-pants completed an online course as well as micro-taught
a piece of one of their courses. The online course was “Fundamentals of Good Teaching Practice” and focuses
on lesson planning and delivery, test design, and class-room assessment. The course was delivered via WebCT,
and allowed the faculty to experience a distance learning
course from the student’s perspective. The micro-teaching was completed in four Saturday morning meet-
ings at the Rockville campus. The teaching allowed the participants to practice the ideas discussed in the online
class and receive immediate feedback from their peers.
Imagine trying to introduce a subject, deliver the con-tent, and assess understanding in only 10 minutes, and
then know that your peers will be providing written and verbal feedback as soon as you are done. It’s quite a
challenge that the following faculty took on willingly, and from what I hear accomplished quite successfully.
Congratulations again to the following CTL Fellows on the completion of their program.
IMPORTANT DATES
May 6-12 Final week of classes-exams
May 9 Posting of grades for graduates
(exams May 6 - 9) 5p.m.
May 12 Posting of grades for graduates
(exams May 12 - 13) 12 noon
May 13 Posting of grades for graduates
(exams May 12 - 13) 12 noon
May 15 Posting for non-graduates, 5:00 pm*
May 16 Commencement
May 26 Memorial Day
May 27 Summer Session I
July 4 Independence Day; College closed
July 7 Summer Session II
August 20 Official end of summer sessions
September 3 Fall classes begin
*Grades submitted after the deadline (i.e. late grades) are posted by
the instructor just as any other grade using Banner web or Banner desktop.
Name Campus Department
Esat Atikkan GT PE&Biology
Jennifer Capparella GT Natural Sciences
Dave Celeste RV Criminal justice
Grace Graham RV & GT Art
Michaele Herrington RV Art
Mark Loberg GT Communications
Sarah McCloud RV English
Jacquelyn Murdock GT Speech
Gamar Rachimovia TP/SS Pathophysiology
Heather Satrom TP/SS AELP
Karen Trebilcock RV AELP
Dorothy Umans GT Business
Dina Yagodich GT Mathematics
Linda Youngentob RV Business and Econ
Sally Zimmermann GT Mathematics
Need technical assistance in your instruction? Come into the CTL,
Humanities Room 008 OR sign up for CTL workshops at:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/ctl/workshops/workshop.htm
Need handouts, programs, resources? Go to:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/ctl
If you enjoy reading the Evening-Weekend News and would
like to read past issues, go to:
http://www.montgomerycollege.edu/ctl/Resources/newsletters.html
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Summer Fitness
Brenda Salas Part-time instructors who teach in either Summer I or Summer II sessions are eligible to participate in the MC Wellness Program. The MC Wellness Program at Rockville offers fitness center hours every day, and activity classes such as Yoga, Jazzercise, Step, Body Sculpt, Body Conditioning, Spinning, Tai Chi, Zumba, Stretch, Aqua Aerobics and Exercise for Arthritis on most days of the week.
Fees for participation in the MC Wellness Pro-gram are $50 for use of the Fitness Center and $30 per class format for the activity classes. These fees cover use of the Fitness Center and participa-tion in Wellness classes from 6/2/08 through 8/29/08. Payment is made at the cashier's office located on campus.
The summer wellness schedule for Rockville will be released on Wednesday, May 14. Look in In-side MC Online for the "Weekly Wednesday Well-ness" column for complete details on the Rockville summer wellness schedule. Feel free to contact your wellness coordinator: Brenda Salas at Rock-ville ([email protected], Mer-cedes Santos at TP/SS ([email protected]); or Keith Federman at Germantown ([email protected]) for more information.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: Please, please do not leave your papers in the Evening Week-end Office at the end of the semester! Please store critical papers in your department or at home. With 350 persons using our office, we simply do not have storage room! Any homeless papers will, of necessity, be removed.
Who do we appreciate?
Who keeps MC running? Whom do you ask when you need information? Your administrative aide of course! To
show our gratitude for their professionalism, assistance, and interest, we provided sinfully calorie-laden snacks all
while discussing work on “Administrative Professionals
Day”! However, Don Smith did facilitate helpful dialogue that generated some ideas to facilitate a smoother teach-
ing experience for the part-time instructors here at MC:
ADVANCEMENT IN RANK: Keep your certificates from
professional activities on file as proof you are eligible for advancement.
RETENTION TIME FOR RECORDS: The retention time for records, student exams, term papers, final
grades, etc. is up to department rules. You are not re-
quired to keep materials forever! Ask your administrative aide for the time limits in your department.
MC E-MAIL: You can now reach 95% of your fellow part-time faculty thru MC e-mail (up from 52% in spring
2007). To keep your e-mail running smoothly, you must regularly delete the “sent items” and “deleted
items” (yes, you have to delete twice). And yes, your
administrative aide can assist you.
The Computer Applications Department in Rockville is seeking applicants for possible fall 2008 course offerings including subjects of Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office 2007,
Adobe Flash CS3, ActionScript, Professional Web Site Development (XHTML, Dreamweaver, Style Sheets, etc.), and Game and Simulation Development. Qualified applicants (a Master's degree or higher from an accredited college or university, college level teaching experience is desirable) should fill out an application online at https://montgomerycollege.recruitmax.com/ENG/candidates/) as well as send resume and summary of qualifications to department chair, Professor Terri Maradei at: [email protected]. Day, evening, and weekend sections are often available.
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Game Show? Jay Zawatsky
by Charlotte Jacobsen
“Frederick Taylor used these to study and design more efficient tools and factory layouts.” Correct answer: time and mo-
tion studies. “These are at the top of the pyramid of Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs.” Correct answer: Self-actualization needs. “Not a single one of its 1.3 million workers is a union member.” Correct answer: Wal-Mart.
Have I wandered onto a TV filming set? No, this is the second part of Exam II, Introduction to Business. The first part of the exam consisted of two essay questions, one thirty minutes and one forty-five minutes. In Part II, the students were
split into three teams, Red, Green or Blue, to compete in a fast-paced question and answer free-for-all.
Magnified upon the big screen were the following categories:
Management Functions
Theories of Organization
Leadership styles
Operations Management
Motivating Employees
Human Relations Management
The questions in each category were worth 200, 400, 600, 800 or 1000 points. If the answering team answered incor-rectly, that team lost those points! When, during the excitement, the Green Team had the correct answer, a member on
the Red Team exclaimed, “So unfair as I had my hand up.” Jay Zawatsky is a great referee, but he cannot please everone!
Although Jay is not new to teaching, this is his first course at Montgomery College. He teaches SAT preparation classes
to high school juniors and seniors and has also taught biology. Jay Zawatsky received a J.D., cum laude, from Boston Uni-versity Law School and studied finance at the Boston University Graduate School of Management. He received an A.B. from
Brown University. He thinks the role of professor in the classroom is essentially the same as that of an attorney in the
courtroom. Jay says, “I use the Socratic method. I rarely supply answers, but seek to guide students to the correct result through careful, interactive questioning.”
At the end of the first round, the team scores were:
Red Green Blue
1,000 600 1,400
At the end of the second round, in which each question value was doubled, the scores were:
Red Green Blue
4,600 9,400 7,000
Before the Final Round, the students had to strategize: How much shall we wager on the final question? Members
passed their wager proposals to their team leader. The bets were as follows:
Red Green Blue
4,599 1 250
Not a lot of confidence by Green or Blue. (Were they actually being “yellow” or were they being cagey?). The music
starts…………The ultimate question flashes on the screen: “Stocks that produce steady but unspectacular dividends are referred to as these”. Anyone with the correct answer???? The answer was revealed: “widows’ and orphans’ stocks”.
No member of any team knew the answer to the final question….Final scores:
Red Green Blue
$1 9,399 6,750
Each member of the Green team added 6 points to his or her exam score. Each Blue team member received 5 points;
each Red team member got 4……it pays to win! In addition to a strong interest in teaching, Jay is president of a real es-tate development company and is the CEO of a hydrogen fuel cell integration company. Read one of his recent articles at:
http://www.nationalinterest.org/Article.aspx?id=17332.