to the home page for Housatonic's Center for Teaching (CFT). Follow the links to the left for useful information for faculty and staff at Housatonic, including our calendar of activities, which will be updated as we move through the semester. In the "What's New?" box to the right, you'll find new resources, announcements, and upcoming events.

Please let me know if you have suggestions for upcoming CFT activities or would like to recommend resources for faculty.  Feel free to call upon me with questions about professional development or for any other assistance with your teaching.

Steve Mark

Professor of English

Teaching/Learning Consultant, HCC

What Is It Like Being a College Student Today?*

Learn more about how Professor Michael Wesch and 200 students at Kansas State University developed this video.

*Having trouble seeing this video?  You may need to update your flash player or try viewing this in another browser. 

 

 

 

What's New?

CFT's

"Big Read"

2009

Has Launched!

Frank McCourt's Teacher Man

We'll be discussing the book in the fall. 

To request a complimentary copy from CFT, e-mail Steve Mark

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New Resources are available in

HCC Center for Teaching Forum

You can now anonymously share classroom challenges and get advice from your colleagues.

Learn some helpful tips for "Creating and Maintaining Respect" in the classroom in our resources section.

 

Log in through MyCommNet and go to the Blackboard Vista link.

You'll see "HCC Center for Teaching Forum" on your My Blackboard page.

 

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Complimentary Subscriptions to

are still available!

CFT is offering online subscriptions for all HCC faculty to The Teaching Professor, a well-known forum for discussion of the best strategies for effective teaching in the college classroom, supported by the latest research

The newsletter is published 10 times a year.  You can access your subscription from anywhere you have an Internet connection.

 

This online subscription will offer you access to an online version of the newsletter, a .pdf version you can print, and a MP3 audio version you can listen to on your computer or download to your IPod.

Contact Steve Mark for your pin number and instructions for setting up your subscription.

Subscriptions will be provided to part-time faculty on a first-come, first-served basis.