Welcome to the math department! This wiki page is an outline of your orientation to our department. LMC also conducts an orientation to the college.

Your responsibilities

1. Attend staff development (Flex). See "Staff Development" heading below.
2. Scheduled classroom instruction. You should have recieved your schedule from the department chair by email. See campus map  and "Evaluation" heading below.
3. Math Lab hours by arrangement. You should have been told by the department chair how many lab hours per week you have. You need to be schedule your at the beginning of the semester. See "Tutoring Math Lab" under "Resources" heading below.
4. Preparation for classes, evaluating student work, attending management-called meetings, preparing and submitting required reports.
5. Office hours (optional). See "Offices" under "Resources" heading below.
6. If you cannot fulfill your classroom or office hour responsibilities, you need to request leave (e.g. sick leave). If you miss class, you can ask the Career and Employment center to make a "Don't Cancel Class" presentation to your class on a variety of topics.
7. If you cannot fulfill your math lab responsibilities, either arrange a trade with another member of the math department in order to avoid math lab understaffing, or request leave. Also, please notify Carol Love at 439-2181 x3358 and the math lab staff on duty at 439-2181 x3326 before your absence. 

Curriculum

1. Pick up your books in MA1-138, or order a free instructor's copy from the publisher.
2. Pick up the course outlines for your courses from Office of Instruction or download them from this wiki or get them from an LMC computer (P:\Course Outlines\Math\).
   1. If you are teaching a developmental education (DE) course, note the DE Program Student Learning Outcomes. They might not be exactly  what you are used to teaching, but they are built upon throughout our DE courses.
   2. Compare the couse objectives on the department's course outline to your textbook and determine what to skip in book and what to supplement.
3. The department's common final exam questions are to make up 50% of your final exam (You write the other 50%). The department will collect final exams to assess student learning across courses. You can get the common final exam questions from the Math Department chair.
4. Please talk to the math DE lead If you are teaching a DE course to learn about the math DE program and for help with curriculum.
5. LMC DE handouts: log into Blackboard. Please contact the department chair if you need a login and password for Blackboard.
6. You can find summary of the courses our department offers, along the the paths for students (certificate, associate's degree, and transfer) on the LMC math web site. More information about curriculum is available on the math department page.

Resources

1. Police Services (CC1-132, 925-439-2181 x 3228, web page)
   1. Parking sticker: bring your car model and license plate number . Park in the staff areas of Lot B on the southeast side of campus. 
   2. Keys: the buildings and classrooms should be unlocked when classes are running. If you need a room unlocked, call Police Services.
   3. Lost and found
2. Media services (LRC2)
   1. Get your faculty ID card / LMC library card from Media Services. 
3. Central Services (northeast side of CC3)
   1. College mail (in addition to your department mailbox in
   2. Photocopies
4. Human Resources / Business Office (CC3)
   1. Paycheck at cashier's office. Direct deposit is also available.
5. Office of Instruction (PS bldg, at the southwest end of campus)
   1. Deans' office
   2. Voice mail box
   3. Email account and LMC computer account
   4. Whiteboard pens
   5. Forms, such a leave request, request to hold office hours, etc.
6. Math offices
   1. Adjunct faculty share MA1-138.
   2. Please sign up for a desk in MA-138 on the schedule on the desk.
   3. MA1-138 has a shared printer and phone.
   4. Computers:
      1. Get and email and LMC computer account from the Office of Instruction. This login works on any computer on campus, including the computers in MA1-138.
      2. To log on, press CTRL ATL DEL simultaneously. Type losmedanos\login in the first field, and type your password into the second field.
      3. For security reasons, please log off the computer when your are done, from the start menu (lower left corner of the screen)
      4. You can access your email off campus at http://lapis.losmedanos.edu, also using losmedanos\login
      5. IT: For urgent (i.e. a computer classroom goes down) help, dial x3767 (x3SOS). For non-urgent help, use http://lmcpitfs1/sitehelpdesk/user/log.asp
   5. Paid lab hours are optional. You may, at your option, may elect to hold the following paid office hours per week based on the following loads: 0.2 to 0.399 load: 0.5 hr/wk; 0.4 to 0.599 load: 1 hr/wk; 0.6 or more load: 1.5 hr/wk. Please see the Office of Instruction if you want office hours.
   6. Department mail and copy machine in the staff room / kitchen MA-141
      1. copy machine
      2. departmental mail (in addition to college mailbox in Central Services)
   7. Supplies in adjunct office MA1-138 and in storage room MA1-131
7. Math labs
   1. Tutoring Math Lab (MA1-102). Carol Love (x3358, MA1-118) is the lab and tutor coordinator.
      1. You must schedule your lab hours by arrangement and include the schedule in your first-day handout  and on the chart in the math lab.
      2. Please remind your students to spend their required time in the lab (2 hours/week for most classes). Assignments in lab should be in addition to homework. Some math faculty send students to the computer math lab instead of the the tutoring lab.
      3. Please ask your students to log in and log out of the math lab. This is required so we can get funding for the lab.
      4. Questioning Strategies that Facilitate Critical Thinking
      5. Tutors in class
   2. Quiet Math Lab (MA-106)
   3. Computer Math Lab (MA2-202)
      1. IT: For urgent (i.e. a computer classroom goes down) help, dial x3767 (x3SOS). For non-urgent help, use http://lmcpitfs1/sitehelpdesk/user/log.asp
   4. Testing Room (MA1-107) 
8. Classrooms: MA2 and College Complex (CC1, CC2)
   1. Get whiteboard pens from Office of Instruction.
   2. Overhead projector & transparencies available in Library, Level 2
   3. LCD calculator display for overhead projector in in storage room MA-131
   4. Computer LCD projector installed in some classrooms
9. Library (front -- viz. northwest side -- of campus, web page)
   1. Student calculators available for check-out from Level 2.
   2. Overhead projector & transparencies available from Level 2 

Administrative issues

1. Enrollment
   1. Class rosters will be in your campus mailbox; also available on WebAdvisor.
   2. Wait list reminder: students on wait list must be added first, if space is available. Class maxima are printed on the rosters.
   3. Add/drop deadlines. See Lesson Plan Schedule
2. First-day handout (a.k.a. “class information sheet” or “syllabus”): you must give your students a first-day handout. This is your contract with your students. Clear, fair policies on your first-day handout can prevent disputes later on. See also First-Day Handout Memo.
3. Class cancellation. Although unlikely, it is possible that your class could be cancelled for low enrollment (less than 20 students). If your class is cancelled, we will make every effort to assign you to another class.

Evaluation

1. Evaluation criteria for part-time and emeritus faculty, including student survey criteria and peer observation criteria.
2. See the first-day handout memo on the Office of Instruction.
3. Sample of a lesson plan which is designed to meet evaluation criteria.

Staff development Flex workshops

For Fall 2008, adjunct faculty have no flex obligations. However, we highly recommend that adjuncts attend Math Flex workshops, Fall 2008 that interest them. In addition, our department offers optional professional development throughout the semester to full-time and adjucnt faculty (with extra pay for adjuncts).

Teaching tips

• Questioning Strategies that Facilitate Critical Thinking
• Advice about classroom management
• You can find more tips about everything from the first day of class to elements of critical thinking at the University of Hawai'i