{"id":3204,"date":"2016-05-02T12:52:36","date_gmt":"2016-05-02T16:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/?page_id=3204"},"modified":"2016-05-02T14:43:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-02T18:43:54","slug":"outstanding-profs-receive-awards-for-teaching-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/may-2016\/outstanding-profs-receive-awards-for-teaching-scholarship\/","title":{"rendered":"Outstanding Profs Receive Awards for Teaching, Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"
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From left: Christine Harrington, teaching excellence award winner; Mark McCormick, vice president for academic and student affairs; Susan Altman, scholar award winner; College President Joann La Perla-Morales; Patricia Kiernan, adjunct award winner; and Ronald Goldfarb, special assistant to the president and member of the Council for Adjunct Faculty Development.<\/p><\/div>\n

Three outstanding professors at Middlesex County College were recently honored: Susan Altman, professor of fine art, was selected as\u00a0the 2016 Faculty Scholar; Christine Harrington, of the History and Social Sciences Department, received the Excellence in Teaching\u00a0Award; and Patricia Kiernan, of the Mathematics Department, received the Excellence in Teaching Part Time Award.<\/p>\n

Professor Altman has done extensive research on digital technologies in studio art.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat was most impressive was her implementation of Adobe Creative Suite and her studio research on a pioneering new technique\u00a0using electricity in the etching process instead of traditional chemicals that had a negative impact on the environment,\u201d said Mat Spano,\u00a0a member of the selection committee. \u201cShe also cites her familiarity with the SOTL (Scholarship of Teaching and Learning) research in\u00a0her discipline as well as her contributions to shaping that research by way of critical reviews and papers and presentations of her own.\u00a0Professor Altman has also found ways to apply this scholarship to her classroom and studio teaching. This is demonstrated by her use\u00a0of writing for critical thinking in the classroom by way of teaching students to write critiques of artworks, a strategy that she researched\u00a0and developed further resulting in the publication of an article in Issues of Education at Community Colleges.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dr. Harrington \u201cis truly a master teacher among master teachers,\u201d Dr. Spano said. \u201cShe effectively channels all of her research and\u00a0publications in pedagogy and the psychology of learning into her lectures, lesson plans, activities and assignments. The effortless way\u00a0in which she seems to have integrated her years of research into her teaching philosophy is quite impressive. She makes it look easy,\u00a0but those of us who know the breadth and depth of her research as well as the many challenges involved in reaching our student\u00a0population appreciate her achievement in classroom teaching. In particular, we applaud her skillful implementation of scaffolding,\u00a0writing-to- learn activities, collaborative learning (the way it should be done), motivational techniques, support systems, and formative\u00a0assessment. A master teacher has the ability, the experience, and the versatility to reach multiple audiences and guide them to the\u00a0learning outcomes. Professor Harrington does all of this, and more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Patricia Kiernan is a proponent of the \u201cflipped classroom\u201d approach, in which the students listen to video lectures on their own time via\u00a0the internet, and then come to class to work with their professor on assignments.<\/p>\n

\u201cShe seems to understand the purpose of the flipped approach as evidenced by her clear, concise video lectures, embedded with\u00a0quizzes, and active-learning in-class activities rooted in practical and creative problem-solving,\u201d Dr. Spano said. \u201cShe also has students\u00a0demonstrate core concepts for their peers. She strives to understand the students\u2019 perspective and challenges and uses this as the\u00a0starting point for her lesson plans.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three outstanding professors at Middlesex County College were recently honored: Susan Altman, professor of fine art, was selected as\u00a0the 2016 Faculty Scholar; Christine Harrington, of the History and Social Sciences Department, received the Excellence in Teaching\u00a0Award; and Patricia Kiernan, of the Mathematics Department, received the Excellence in Teaching Part Time Award. Professor Altman has done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":3201,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-3204","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3204","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3204"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3204\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3256,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3204\/revisions\/3256"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mccdemosite1.devsiteurl.com\/mcc-publications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}