End of the Quarter Pressure!
There is too much to do (force) and too little time left in the quarter (area). In the future, Scott and Suzy will try to move some of these required tasks further away from the end of the quarter to relieve some of that pressure. For this quarter, we are thankful for your stamina and your patience. Here is a list of what each faculty member needs to get done.
Assessment Charts
Submit an assessment chart for each of the course sections you are teaching for the English department this quarter. Remember that adjunct faculty are paid $40 per completed chart as long as the charts are submitted by June 30th. You will find instructions on how to this at https://bc.instructure.com/courses/829528
Student Evaluations
Opt-in to online course evaluations AND provide an incentive to your students to complete the online course evaluations. I (Suzy) cannot tell you how many times I have put this off and then forgotten about it. I am guilty of not doing enough to encourage my students to evaluate me. I regret it. And as soon as I’m done with this post, I’m going to create an assignment for extra credit to encourage my students to evaluate me. Opt-in at https://www.bellevuecollege.edu/classeval/educator/
Remember that you can arrange for Seda Markarova (seda.markarova@bellevuecollege) to administer student evaluations with your students face-to-face if you wish, although, at this point in the quarter, she might be booked. All tenure-track and adjunct faculty are contractually required to have students evaluate all of their classes. All full-time faculty should evaluate all of their classes, but they are required to evaluate the classes they were assigned to evaluate at the beginning of the school year.
OK. I’m going to set a timer so I don’t forget to this when I’m done with this post.
Course Outcomes Working Meeting
Friday, June 13th we will meet as a full department from 1:30 – 4:30 and rewrite all of our course outcomes. We are doing this to support the college’s preparation for an accreditation visit. Adjunct faculty will be paid for attending. Please don’t hesitate to come for only part of the workshop if that is all you can manage. Your expertise and insight are needed!
Winter 2015 Course Preferences
Suzy will be sending out a draft Winter 2014 schedule on June 12th and I will be asking adjunct faculty for their preferences. Please provide me with a bit of context. Are there times of the day you cannot teach for us? Are there modalities you do not feel prepared to teach well in? Are there classes you don’t feel comfortable teaching? And then, finally, what would be some ideal schedules?
Suzy will take the requests and then use them, during the summer, to build a Winter schedule. You won’t be able to find out what you’ve been assigned before mid-summer. The room assignment schedule and publishing schedule just put some critical deadlines in the middle of the summer.
Remember that the English department decided that starting Winter 2015, no instructor will be assigned three classes completely online.