{"id":97,"date":"2012-09-10T21:44:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-11T02:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/jdh08a\/?page_id=97"},"modified":"2018-08-18T22:06:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-19T03:06:26","slug":"collegiality-within-department","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/jdh08a\/collegiality-within-department\/","title":{"rendered":"Collegiality: Within my department"},"content":{"rendered":"

Within my department, I encourage and assist my colleagues in their work. In fall 2010, I sat in Ray Pettit’s CS 115 class almost every day, observing his teaching, providing feedback to him and assisting students in their work. In fall 2010 and fall 2011, I sat in Dwayne Towell’s CS 111 class, teaching occasionally and often assisting students in their work. In spring 2014, I visited two of Alfa Nyandoro’s courses (IT 221, CS 220) to provide evaluative feedback for him. Since I began serving as director for SITC, I have tried to visit a class for each of the faculty members in my department – not to evaluate or judge their teaching, but to learn more about their interests and style. Correspondingly, I have invited colleagues to sit in my classes to observe my teaching and provide constructive feedback to help me improve. I have occasionally taught or administered exams in colleagues’ courses as needed, typically when faculty were sick or traveling. <\/p>\n

In fall 2010, James Prather<\/a> began teaching as an adjunct in my department. I remembered well the challenges and stress of my first year teaching, so I tried to encourage and mentor James. He continued as an adjunct for several years, then in fall 2013 accepted a full-time instructor position in my department and (after completing his Ph.D. in spring 2018) will this year begin a position as assistant professor in the department.<\/p>\n

I enjoy playing games at lunch with faculty from my department and also some faculty from the business departments (who share our building). I enjoy this opportunity to interact with my colleagues, away from the normal pressures of our work. An understood but unspoken rule prevents most work-related questions during these times; instead we simply play together.<\/p>\n

I often play racquetball or disc golf with my colleagues and friends, and I make efforts to draw students into these pursuits. I played one year on an intramural volleyball team comprised equally of computer science faculty and students.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Within my department, I encourage and assist my colleagues in their work. In fall 2010, I sat in Ray Pettit’s CS 115 class almost every day, observing his teaching, providing feedback to him and assisting students in their work. In fall 2010 and fall 2011, I sat in Dwayne Towell’s CS 111 class, teaching occasionally […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3371,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-97","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/jdh08a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/jdh08a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/jdh08a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/jdh08a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3371"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/jdh08a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97"}],"version-history":[{"count":31,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/jdh08a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1105,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/jdh08a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/97\/revisions\/1105"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.acu.edu\/jdh08a\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}