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Welcome New and Returning Faculty

The ITU management wants you to have a successful, effective and productive

Spring 2013 trimester.

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Faculty Handbook is Online

Available at:

http://itu.edu/index.php/lifeitu/itu-community/staff/faculty-resources/

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Teaching the International Student

• Our students come to ITU from other countries. In some cases this is their first experience in the US.

• You need to be clear about your policies, rules and class requirements. Just like domestic students they will get away with as much as they see they can.

• Don’t assume they understand attendance, assignments, exams, etc.

• Have your syllabus ready and distribute it on the first day of class!

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Syllabus Standards and Requirements

• You are required to create a syllabus for each of your classes.

• See syllabus template and sample syllabus handout.

• We will be checking for compliance.

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Use the EMS• You are REQUIRED to use the Education

Management System (EMS) for all of your course materials and activities.

• Exams, quizzes, lectures, assignments, projects, … everything needs to be uploaded, created and made accessible in the EMS.

• The EMS provides a central location for all students, faculty and staff to find course related documentation.

• TAs and the Learning Resource Center can help you build your class in the EMS.

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The Role of your Teaching Assistant (TA)

(Faculty Handbook page 27)TAs CAN:– Help you create your EMS class.– Help you to better communicate with your students.– Help with attendance & distribute info to your

students.– Assist in course preparation activities and clean up.

TAs CAN’T:– Collect or grade student work.– Should not have access to the grade book in the EMS.– Should not perform lectures in your absence.– Should not proctor exams in your absence.

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Online Exams are discouraged

• At least one exam must be taken in class (preferably the final exam).

• The exam or activity completed in class must count (significantly) towards the student’s final grade.

• It is acceptable to offer take-home midterms or other projects.

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Final Exam Administration

• Your TA should not take the SAME exam.• Do not ask your TA to print the exams.• Joel will print them for you. Send an email

request 2-3 days in advanced to jfleischman@itu.edu

• The ITU administration will help you conduct your final exams as well.

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ITU does NOT offer online classes(Faculty Handbook page 39)

• The EMS is used to store and distribute information, not to deliver a class.

• Students use the EMS to upload their work for grading. It’s a centralized storage location.

• The EMS is NOT the class and should not be used as a substitute for class attendance.

• Physical class attendance is required for a student to earn a grade in your class.

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Student Grading (Faculty Handbook page 30)

• All assignments should be graded and the grades recorded in the EMS.

• There is NO requirement to grade attendance BUT attendance needs to be taken.

• Final grades are entered into the EMS.• If a student does NOT attend your class they

should be issued an F grade no matter what work they have submitted online. Physical class attendance is required!

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Mandatory Class Hours

• Weekend classes are 8 hours a day for 3 weeks for 6 complete days. (48 hrs total)

• Weekday classes are 3.2 hours each meeting, once a week for 15 weeks. (48 hrs total)

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Class Hours and Credit Units

• One hour of classroom or direct faculty instruction and a minimum of two hours of out-of-class student work each week for fifteen weeks for one semester or trimester hour of credit.

http://www.wascsenior.org/resources/credithour

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EMS SLO, CSLO, RubricRequired Usage

• You need to assign ALL CSLOs to assignments given in your class.

• You may also ask Peter speter@itu.edu for assistance.

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EMS SLO, CSLO, RubricRequired Usage

• A few of you are grading CSLOs for one assignment or two and leaving other assignment CSLOs blank or grading one CSLO out of the many CSLOs assigned to each assignment.

• You are REQUIRED to grade ALL CSLOs assigned to each assignment.

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Develop CSLO Rubric(Faculty Handbook page 26 & 46)

I nternational Technological University Course Student Learning Outcomes Rubric

Assessing the Quality of Course Student Learning Outcomes

Course Student Learning Outcomes

I nitial Emerging Developed Highly Developed

Make ethical decision in a business environment and write financial reporting and conduct industry analyses.

Don’t know what the ethical decision is and don’t understand how to write financial statements or industry analysis.

Start to discuss how to write financial reporting but unable to make ethical decision or industry analysis.

Identify the process to make ethical decision in the business area and able to write financial reporting with a weak trend to analyze the industry.

Demonstrate proficiency in making business ethical decision and in writing financial reporting with a strong industry analysis.

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Attendance Tracking Requirements

• Students are REQUIRED to attend 70% of your class, NO exceptions.

• Student who don’t attend 70% of the class should fail the class!

• You are responsible for taking the daily attendance in your class.

• DO NOT have your TA do this.

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Final Grade Entry

• The final grades are due ONE week after the term ends.

• A lot of OPT or CPT applications are pending those grades. 

• Please make sure they are entered into the EMS within a week after the term ends.

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Change of Grade Policy (Faculty Handbook page 31)

• Students will ask for better grades. It’s a reality of teaching.

• We don’t just give them better grades unless there is an error in the original grade.

• Challenges to grade records must be made within one term of the alleged error.

• The official grade change policy must be followed.

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Incomplete Grades (Faculty Handbook page 32)

• Incomplete grades (“I”) may only be issued when merited.

• Students must request the “I” and must be in good standing when the request is made.

• The “I” will turn into an “F” after one term following the issuance of the “I.”

• Faculty should work with the student and make the grade change request when missing work is submitted.

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Classroom Observations• Sara and other staff will be auditing

classes to make sure all requirements are being met.

• We are also auditing your EMS class configuration.

• Please welcome our staff to your classes and let Sara know if you have any questions or concerns.

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We need Faculty Unity

• Every Faculty member should uphold the same ITU policies.

• One professor cannot make exceptions when all the others are not.

• If you have questions about policies and procedures please consult with your Department Chair.

• Please read the Faculty Handbook and follow ALL of our important policies.

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Faculty Training Videos

• Tutorial videos to help all faculty• YouTube Channel – “ituedu”• Tutorial 1: EMS Grade Book Configuration:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJD-6OQtzZc

• Do you have video ideas or content you want to see? Please let me know!

Plagiarism Checking withTurnitin.com

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• Barbara Arnoldson will present information on how to use Turnitin

• To get access to the system please contact Joel for a username and password at jfleischman@itu.edu

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ACM Digital Library

• Email elibrary@itu.edu to get access name/password.

• Go to: http://dl.acm.org/ • Enter the username and password

you get from IT• ALL faculty and students have free

access to the ACM Digital Library

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Thank you for your time!

If you have questions or problems please don’t hesitate to contact me at bhecker@itu.edu.

Barbara Hecker, PhDDirector of Faculty Professional DevelopmentDepartment Chair, Engineering Management