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Course Title: New Faculty Academy and
Mentoring Program
Clinical Hours:
Lab Hours:
Contact hours: 32
Studio Hours:
Course Description
Provides recently hired full-time teaching faculty with the knowledge and skills to enhance the
learning of their students by providing specific instructional strategies and techniques.
Introduces the four domains of Teaching, Scholarly and Creative Engagement, Institutional
Responsibilities, and Service necessary to be a successful faculty member at TCC. Provides
hands-on experiences in a blended course format.
Textbook: Instructional materials provided by the Office of Academic Affairs.
Prerequisites: None
Co-requisites: None
General Education Core Competencies supported by this course:
Participants will be able to:
Demonstrate written and oral communication skills between students and the
instructor and among students that promote understanding and comprehension.
Display critical thinking skills to evaluate evidence, apply reasoning, and offer
application potential.
Illustrate how the awareness, promotion, understanding, and appreciation of the
cultural and social dimensions have implications within local, state, regional, national,
and global communities.
Determine when to locate, evaluate, and apply information literacy within the context
of discipline specific situations.
Demonstrate personal growth through improvements in physical well-being and
evolving emotional maturity within an academic context.
Apply quantitative reasoning skills to knowledge based on logic, numbers, and
mathematics to solve common problems and issues.
Demonstrate and apply scientific reasoning skills to the interpretation of empirical
data to describe, predict, and manipulate natural phenomena.
Measurable Learning Outcomes
After the completion of this course, participants will be able to:
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1. Design and manage a classroom environment that contributes to students’ abilities to
engage fully in learning.
2. Design courses that help students learn the skills, issues, and concepts they will need
to succeed in their educational plan.
3. Demonstrate an understanding of teaching methods that encourage students to be
actively engaged throughout a learning experience.
4. Demonstrate an understanding of the selection and use of appropriate instructional
technologies for enhancing student learning.
5. Design assessments that effectively measure student learning outcomes in a course.
6. Develop and implement an Annual Performance and Professional Development Plan.
7. Demonstrate scholarly and creative engagement practices consistent with a college
teaching faculty member.
8. Demonstrate effective participation in the institution and in service to the community
and the college.
Topics Covered in this course
1. Overview of course and requirements
 The TCC Performance and Professional Development Plan
 Introduction to Blackboard and SIS Functions for Faculty
 Email and classroom technology available for instruction
2. Instructional Design and Delivery
 How People Learn
 Alignment of course outcomes with curricular and General Education outcomes
 Writing Effective Learning Outcomes
 Designing the Syllabus: i-INCURR at TCC
 Knowing Your Students: An overview of TCC Students
 Instructional Strategies and Student Engagement
 Effective Classroom Pedagogy
 Promoting Civility in the Classroom
 Responding to Student Questions
 Academic Integrity
3. Instructional Effectiveness
 Assessment: Class, Course, and Curriculum
 Early Student Feedback in your Classes
 Assessing Teaching: Data Sources and Documenting Teaching Effectiveness
 Student Evaluations: What do they Mean and How to Use Them to Improve Instruction
4. Instructional Expertise
 Understanding and Applying Pedagogy
 Introduction to Online/Hybrid Teaching Requirements at TCC
 The Teaching Portfolio: Documenting Your Instructional Expertise
 Promotion and the Career Path: Requirements and Planning
5. Scholarly and Creative Engagement
 The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning: What Is It?
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Scholarly Societies, Publications, Presentations, and Exhibits
Grant Writing
6. Institutional Responsibilities and Service
 Student Success Strategies
 Students Outside the Classroom: Clubs and Activities and Interaction with Students
 Collegial Governance at the College and Service to your Campus and Division
 VCCS Peer Groups
 Community Service: What Is It?
 The Annual Performance and Professional Development Plan for the Second Year at
TCC
Methods of Assessment used in this course
Direct Assessments Used
Indirect Assessments Used
Tests/Exams/Quizzes
Essays
Projects
Studio/Lab Performance
Minute Papers
Conferences w/students
Mid-Semester Evaluations
Questionnaires to gather
feedback
Course Exit Surveys
Participation points
awarded
Research Report
Oral Examination
Other Assessments
(please describe below)
Demonstrations,
presentations
Lab Practical
Portfolios
Check this box if standardized assessment instruments are used in this course. Check all
that apply:
Test required for certification or licensure:
Standardized test within course for formative evaluation:
Check this box if Common exam given to all sections of this course.
Methods of Delivery
Face-to-Face
Online
Hybrid
Required Course Materials (in addition to textbook)
Online Materials Provided by Facilitator
Access to TCC’s New Faculty Academy
Webpage
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Discipline Chair Signature: Terry L. Jones
Academic Dean Signature: Terry L. Jones
Date Last Reviewed: May 22, 2015
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