Course Syllabus Welcome to "Maximum Woman" Academy

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Above all, the workshop series creates a space for instructors to become more effective in their courses such that their students are more engaged in learning, less likely to drop from classes, and more likely to become life-long learners.

In conjunction, the cohort-based program also cultivates community, support, increased institutional knowledge, and familiarization with faculty full-time hiring practices and materials. 

The HCC Adjunct Academy consists of eight workshops.

Each workshop includes four hours of activity: in-session synchronous participation and asynchronous activity completion. 

Each workshop targets a specific area of pedagogy or personal professional development.

The aim is that participants will become stronger and more confident instructors as well as further invested in life-long learning for themselves—thereby increasing overall personal enjoyment and student success

As a participant of the Adjunct Academy, you will learn how to—

• Identify strategies to create classroom community.
• Determine how your course relates to students’ experiences;
• Recognize and differentiate between instructor-centered vs. student-centered syllabi and lesson plan language and pedagogy;
• Explore varying teaching methods;
• Develop learning extensions of your course beyond the classroom;
• Consider technology application in courses;
• Compare and contrast effective assessment strategies for student and personal performance; and
• Determine key components of a successful interview kit.

Adjunct faculty will learn to enhance their teaching skills and sharpen their own acumen.

By the end of the course, they will know how to:

• Create a community of learners where students can achieve ownership of course material;
• Foster an equitable and inclusive diverse learning environment;
• Develop syllabi and pedagogy based on learning outcomes where students clearly comprehend course requirements;
• Assess the success of assignments and classes and effectively reflect, augment, and employ necessary revisions to courses and teaching style whereby your students will receive the best, most thoughtful instruction and assessment within your training and natural abilities;
• Engage students in learning through multiple techniques where all students will feel “seen” by instructor and subject matter becomes more tangible in a variety of learning styles;
• Connect the classroom to the outside world where students can identify how course material applies to further personal, academic, and/or professional use;
• Implement technology in the classroom where students interact with course content and communicate in multiple electronic formats; and
• Design professional development (interview) materials should you seek full-time academic employment (including the teaching demonstration and teaching philosophy) where students—in any place you will instruct—benefit from your education and succeed in their academic endeavors.

• Engage in best practices in learning and teaching
• Gain valuable mentoring relationships with senior faculty
• Receive first-hand experience in web-based learning, which will encourage its incorporation in pedagogy and awareness of HCC Online courses
• Complete the program within two semesters
• Receive a certificate verifying completion of the program and all its requirements
• Attend a graduation ceremony celebrating your success and completion of the Adjunct Academy

To “pass” the Adjunct Academy, a participant must attend and complete all eight workshops, 32 hours (at a minimum).

If a participant cannot attend a workshop, they should immediately contact their facilitator and/or Jennifer Vacca to seek out an alternate “make-up” date. If a “make-up” workshop is not viable, the miss will be counted as an absence.

 Attend all eight synchronous workshops

• Complete all asynchronous activities for each workshop
• Attend sessions on time and leave when they are finished (there will be workshop breaks)
• Demonstrate through discussions and actions the teaching skills learned in each of the course modules
• Complete all surveys and other evaluative exercises as requested

• Each workshop will include several asynchronous activities accessed via Canvas
• Individual Teaching Demonstrations (Workshop 8) will be ten minutes in length, tied to a course you currently teach, and illustrate a technique(s) learned in the program. Your cohort peers will serve as students and actively learn while providing critical feedback to the presenter.
• Projects may be assigned between workshops and involve group work outside of the sessions. Often, these will be presentations to the cohort at the next workshop.