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The Faculty Manual 2015

Table of Contents _________________________________________________________________________________________________ Welcome Part One Planning for The Village Your Appointment Sorting out Your Banking What to Bring Transportation Communications Program calendar Contacting your students Meeting your colleagues Faculty and Staff for 2015 Part Two Living in The Village Arrival and departure Housing Meals Medical Part Three Teaching Planning your courses Preparing and distributing your syllabi Using the traditional classroom Active learning opportunities in and around The Village Using The Village Labs Assignments Office hours and Advising Leadership Mondays Seminar and Dinner Teaching Schedules Course Rosters and Registrations UWF Accounts Part Four Service and Extra Issues Van car driving

Faculty meetings Residence weekends Student Complaints Student Discipline Faculty Comportment Emergencies Entities Globalizedu UWF Eur Am Center

Dear Village Faculty Member or Candidate It is always a pleasure to put together what feels like a dream team each semester at The Village I went to Pontlevoy for the first time back in 1999 and I still recall today the excitement I felt the first time I was shown the grounds and interiors of the historic Abbey of Pontlevoy During 15 sessions of my programs there I ve had the pleasure of introducing 625 students and over 70 professors to the magic of this place I hope it feels the same to you Your semester in Pontlevoy won t be like any others you ve known While there will be similar elements to other teaching you ve done The Village is meant to be different in a few critical ways Pontlevoy offers you a teaching context different from any you ve experienced before It will call out for you to try new things or ask you to incorporate some very old ones in how you teach Our classrooms work just fine and you will use them But any time your syllabi can find room for a walk through town or out into the fields of vines that surround Pontlevoy you and your students will feel something special You will have a teaching opportunity with a group of self selected students whose goals in life include proactively trying to meet the world Not all of them will be 4 0 students Some may in fact be academically marginal Yet all of them are coming because they have a dream about how it feels to learn in new and exciting ways with Europe as their classroom They won t be distracted as they are at home by part time jobs They won t have the thick network of family and familiarity to hold their attention either They will agree to be open to you and what you have to teach If they trust you everyday to deliver just a little magic in how where and what you teach they will agree to let their intrinsic love of learning reign supreme From Pontlevoy to Paris and beyond The Village will be a platform for you to connect your students to their better selves It s a special honor and privilege to be trusted with the sacred dreams that come to France with our students They know at some point in their semester that everything ahead is going to be different for them because of you their learning the abbey they will call home and the European village that they meet as summer turns to winter Never forget the value of their dreams and that you had similar ones when it was your turn to try something you were afraid of but still wanted to with all your heart Dr Douglas P Mackaman Professor of European History and Director The Village

_________________________________________________________________________________________________ Part I Planning for The Village Your Appointment If you re interested in The Village there are a few ways to join our faculty Current or emeriti UWF faculty are especially encouraged to consider joining The Village for a semester or short term course But current or emeriti faculty from any university may seek to be considered for the program Current or retired high school teachers who have at least 18 credit hours completed in an accredited graduate program in their teaching field may also seek to join The Village You can join The Village for an entire semester for a month at the start of term to teach a compressed course or solely to teach a one week JOURNEYcourse If you look into The Village and think you re interested in teaching with us send an email along with a vitae to Globalizedu and The Village Director Dr Doug Mackaman at dougmackaman gmail com who will then follow up by email and phone to discuss the program and its needs relative to your training and circumstances If that discussion makes it seem like The Village is a good fit Dr Mackaman will nominate you on behalf of Globalizedu for consideration by the Associate Vice Provost for International Affairs at UWF Dr Kim LeDuff Each faculty member nominated by Globalizedu to teach on The Village will be asked to provide the following documents to build her his dossier A current vitae listing your educational and professional background and accomplishments A copy of your graduate transcript showing at least 18 graduate credit hours completed in the field you re seeking to teach at The Village One letter of recommendation from a colleague or supervisor Once the faculty s credentials and nomination have been approved by UWF Globalizedu will send an offer letter by email to the proposed faculty member in which the terms of the appointment will be officially described Upon accepting those terms the faculty member will join The Village for the coming year pending enrollment considerations

Your Banking About the first of August you should begin your planning in earnest for your time in France Among other things this means thinking about your banking There are a few things to consider here 1 ATM cards are accepted all over Europe and there s an ATM machine in Pontlevoy so planning to access your personal funds this way makes a ton of sense 2 You ll also want to be sure that you have a chip and pin credit card or a chip and pin debit card if such can be secured from your bank These cards work all over Europe including at gas stations and via other ticket machines and such They are a real time saver 3 About a week before you leave for France be sure to contact your debit card and credit card companies to notify them of your travel dates and the countries you will be visiting If you know you re doing a JOURNEYcourse that will take you outside of France be sure to let your card companies know where you will be beyond France Ditto your own plans for personal travel during our three long weekends and or during the two times when the students and you will be on break Check the program calendar below to be sure you have your correct dates sorted out 4 Be sure that you send your bank details to Globalizedu so that any reimbursements or other payments to you can be easily done remotely by the program director You should plan to email the following details to Dr Mackaman no later than 15 August Your full name on the account Your bank s name and address Your bank s routing number Your bank account number What to Bring The things we carry indeed Packing is always a personal matter You will be coming to Europe for as long as three months depending on the nature of your appointment and what you will be teaching or for as little as one week Pack accordingly with an eye toward what the main sweep of the weather is likely to be during the time of your stay For most of us who are there all semester the early weeks will tend to be quite warm and sunny while the last weeks will be the start of a damp and chilly winter The whole gamut will be between these two poles JOURNEY tends to see chilly autumnal weather all over Europe think of where we teach in later October so this week on the road is its own packing beast I always recommend having a smallish rolling suitcase and a backpack or

briefcase of some kind but these are personal preference matters In general think about these things We tend to be an informal bunch when it comes to our standards of professional attire Teaching in a sweater and jeans is going to work just fine If you re teaching outside and it s a hot early September day go for shorts if you want We do some evening sociability and some of it does involve French friends of the program so you ll want a few things that will feel smart and even dressy A good rain jacket is a must A good fleece will also be very handy You don t need me to tell you that good shoes are clutch Same with slippers and other things you can use in your cottage to feel cozy against the ancient stones that are pretty much ubiquitous Plan on bringing basic office supplies for your own needs Plan on bringing the books you will need to teach with and other supporting materials for your teaching and preparation Bring dry erase white board markers It s impossible to have too many Bring copies of your medical prescriptions and enough medicines to get you through the semester if your insurance company will allow it Bring travel basics 2 3 electrical adapters so you can charge your phone tablet and computer basic cold remedies that you favor a corkscrew and battery alarm you like Transportation You will book your own plane ticket to France on whatever itinerary makes sense for you and your family Globalizedu will reimburse you around the start of the program for expenses associated with your plane ticket up to 1500 We will do this reimbursement to your US bank account which is one reason why we need your banking details as discussed above You will book your own train ticket down to Montrichard on whatever schedule you prefer We will notify you in your appointment letter and in other emails as to exactly what we will need for your start date and move in to your Pontlevoy housing Please plan to communicate your arrival time and details with our staff so that we can fetch you in Montrichard in our van You will be reimbursed up to 60 euros for your train ticket Getting around Pontlevoy is mostly a walking matter We have a bakery ATM at a bank a post office three cafes a superb restaurant a pharmacy and a decently well stocked grocery store all within 5 minutes of where we all live

Given how busy we tend to stay during the week with our teaching and such it s easy to go more than a few days without even thinking about a car Bikes are a great idea but these aren t available without arranging a rental of some kind One of our coordinators will be working on setting up a rental plan that will help faculty and students alike so stay tuned for an update on this from a Globalizedu coordinator We will have a program van for you to share with our faculty and staff for most of the time we are in Pontlevoy The van will first and foremost be reserved for program needs but there will be many times when it won t be needed Because the van will be shared among a number of us and be claimed by the program we will keep a centralized schedule so that you can plan your use of the van as efficiently as possible The van can be used for weekend excursions and your personal errands within reason For these The Village asks that you check with other professors to see if anybody wants to share your itinerary Other than the periodic times the van is used for program functions gas for this van will be your responsibility If you re planning a weekend excursion in the van The Village asks that you plan such trips around what will be our transportation schedule for student drops and pickups at the train stations in either Montrichard or Onzain In general we prefer that the program van not be gone overnight and in no case can we allow it to leave if we don t have a vehicle in Pontlevoy to use in an emergency Everybody driving the faculty van needs to put a copy of your current driver s license on file with our office If you d prefer more mobility and independence than the sharing of the van with program and multiple other faculty will allow The Village Program encourages you to rent your own car at the local SuperU which is right outside of Montrichard just a few kilometers away You can arrange to pick up your vehicle on your arrival day as the SuperU is just a short hop from the train station If you re staying just a month on the program the rental for the entire time is about 340 https www location u com When you re prompted to select in which department you want to rent scroll down the list to Loir et Cher Then click on Chissay You can do the entire booking online and have full access to a car for any needs you ll have during your stay If you re staying the entire semester you might opt to rent for the first month and for November but choose to skip October depending on what your travel plans

are going to be while the program is in Paris on VisionQUEST 1 and 2 and on JOURNEY If you know in advance that you will be planning a weekend day trip or a weekday errand run to one of our major market towns Blois Amboise Tours or even Montrichard The Village asks that you post one of our sign up sheets in the hallway of the abbey letting students know where you re going what your schedule will be and how many seats you will have free in your van Otherwise there is limited bus route from Pontelvoy to Blois For trains to Paris you can get a train in either Montrichard or Onzain Most of us veterans prefer Onzain and the slow trains that run through there because the 2 hour trip is a perfect length and the tickets cost about half of what they do on the TGV The TGV connection to Montrichard is done by booking through St Pierre des Corps one of theTours stations and then on to Montrichard For your personal weekend trips it will be your own responsibility to organize and pay for transportation to the train station of your choice if you re not going at our prescheduled times Communications We all rely more on smart phones and constant communications today than we wish we did or at least that s true of most of us who teach on The Village In France we carry this tendency with us but work at least a bit to put the beast back in a cage for a semester Bring your smart phone with you but check with your carrier on what will be the best possible plan for your global use of the phone Data can and will kill you with charges so this in particular needs to be sorted out in advance At the very least your smart phone can serve as your phone book and be set up to allow you to receive calls from anybody at anytime though you may be charged for these It can also work for free on WiFi for data if not calling purposes just as it does at home Do remember free WiFi is less available in Europe than it in the states You should plan on being less in touch than is the case at home We have WiFi in The Village both on our campus in our computer lab and also in town at our local caf Some of the cottages we rent come with Wifi but some do not Come prepared to unplug just a bit and to relish how that feels Understand that you will always be able to walk to an active hotspot or sign up for the Skype Phone Booth that will run 24 7 on campus The Village will be buying burner cell phones for all faculty so that we can reach you easily and you can reach each other us and your students You will be

responsible for adding minutes to your phones as needed These phone can receive calls at no charge to you from anywhere including the USA We will run much of The Village via our program Facebook page We ask you to open a Facebook account if you don t have one so that we can be in touch with you through our group If you disagree with social media and just don t want to use it you get a free glass of wine at Le Commerce and can be our resident iconoclast Luddite However it is your responsibility to be current with information sent out to all Most of our faculty friend our students before the program starts or as it is in session This is something The Village endorses though we do expect that proper comportment and appropriateness be maintained in all communications with students If you friend a student and write to her or him in a private Facebook message please be sure that your spouse your children and the students parents would all appreciate and feel comfortable with the tone and content of any such message If you have any questions about this please ask one of our staff We also make use of old school bulletin board communications via our board in the hallway of the abbey s second floor Feel free to post notices for your classes and other audiences as you wish Our best mode of local communications is some version of face to face contact Our staff may periodically ask you to make announcements in class The shared lunchtime the program has each day is another avenue for getting messages out Program Calendar Please see our program calendar as posted on our Google calendar or on our website at village globalizedu com It will be shared with faculty well before the program launches The calendar will also be available on our Facebook page by the middle of summer pinned to the top within the Program Manual for Students In big picture terms The Village will want you to arrive no later than 2 September which is the day that the students are flying out from the USA If you re staying for the whole term you can plan your return flight as of 1 December You will be free of teaching duties during the two periods of the students VisionQUEST VQ1 and VQ2 which follow ParisWEEK and JOURNEY You will also be free from teaching duties on our three Travel Weekends one of which comes at the end of our second full week of classes and the other two in November We will want to work with you to plan your academic due dates and exams so that we can spread out these crunch time moments across all our classes at the Abbey More so than at home our Village students can feel pummeled by their keenly busy times of academic work

Here is a simple set of screenshots from The Village calendar that offers an overview of our three months starting with our very busy schedule for September Onto October with our ParisWEEK VisionQUEST and JOURNEY dates indicated

And finally to the homestretch of November Contacting your Students The Village will send you course rosters for your Village classes with student contact information by the start of summer We encourage you to reach out to your students prior to the program s start in the following ways Write all of your students a brief welcome email telling them who you are and why you re excited to participate in The Village Share with them some of the readings or other work you ll be doing with them Try to convey to them what excites you about this program Let them know when to expect your syllabus Send your syllabi out to your students via email by the end of June so that they have ample time to read in advance anything you ask them to read Ask with your students if it s ok for you to friend them on Facebook and do this once they tell you that it s ok Meeting your Colleagues A vigorous social life is a long standing tradition among faculty on The Village This has meant many things in the past but in a sense it s always been about sharing bread cheese wine and good company at one of our cottages All of our faculty will live in Pontlevoy in individual or shared housing just around the

corner or a few steps away from everybody else Caf le Commerce and Julien s friendly bar counter make for a great place to meet colleagues and unwind as does a morning coffee down at Robert s little caf Le Brazza We routinely have faculty who are at different stages in their careers from fresh PhD s to emeriti professors or experienced high school teachers Though we don t exactly replicate the freshman year experience of everyone being open to meet everyone else we tend to do pretty well with our social outreach on The Village Village Program Staff for 2015 Doug Mackaman Village Program Director President Globalizedu Mary Ellen Kasak Saxler Village Program Associate Director Mich le Cassavante Village Program Associate Director Elizabeth Anglin Village Program Assistant Director French Host Families and Local Relations Brent Greene Village Program Assistant Director Intercultural Communications Leadership and Service Mary Greene Village Program Assistant Director Intercultural Communications Career Success E Skye Gravenstuk Village Program Coordinator Village Program Faculty for 2015 Bernard Cook History Mich le Cassavante French

Mary Ellen Kasak Saxler French Professor of Record Kim LeDuff Intercultural Communications Professor of Record Doug Mackaman History Professor of Record Morris Marx History of Science Mary McCay English Professor of Record Joseph Samuelson Art History Professor of Record Stephen Vodanovich Social Psychology Professor of Record UWF Program Contacts Dr Kim LeDuff Chief Diversity Officer and Associate Vice Provost for International Education kleduff uwf edu Sara Brake Program Specialist Global Studies UWF sbrake uwf edu Eur Am Center Contact Johan Jaffry Director Jjaffry provisions ws

________________________________________________________________ Part II Living in The Village Arrival and Departure You should plan to book your train down from CDG airport via the SNCF website at www sncf com Book a second class ticket down to Montrichard with a transfer in the Tours TGV station at St Pierre des Corps If you arrive early and stay a night or two in Paris then you ll want to book your ticket down to Montrichard out of Montparnasse transferring again in St Pierre des Corps On the SNCF site you can usually book your ticket so you can print it at home If this doesn t work for you then be sure to use the same card to purchase your ticket that you will have on your person when you arrive at the train station in France You will need the same card you ve used to print the ticket In every case do be sure to print up your confirmation details on your ticket s and have these details with you when you travel If you get to the train station and your card doesn t work to print your ticket just scoot to the front of any line you see and show them your credit card and your copy of your confirmation No matter how menacing they seem on the website the SNCF will always help you get your ticket and in most cases they will be really nice about it Let us know by email or text or Facebook message when you will be arriving in Montrichard One of our staff will be there with our van to get you to Pontlevoy At the end of program we will have a courtesy coach taking the students and any faculty who want the ride from Pontlevoy to CDG airport Do be warned this coach leaves Pontlevoy in the middle of the night around 2 00 AM so as to get our group to the airport in time to catch early flights back to the USA You can do your own transportation up to CDG via train and an overnight at one of the less expensive airport hotels Those arrangements will be yours to make and fund

Your Housing You will be housed proximally to the abbey in the heart of Pontlevoy in a private or shared cottage that s rented to Globalizedu for the tenure of our time in France All of the cottages we rent have full kitchens private bedrooms for each professor and ample bathroom facilities Where possible you will be set up in the same cottage for the whole semester In certain cases when owners have only half a semester of availability you will need to move after ParisWEEK or JOURNEY You will be informed prior to the program if yours will be a shared or individual cottage You will also be alerted if you will need to move house at the semester s midpoint The cottages are all fairly comparable to each other Most are historic and charming at least one has had a major renovation and is quite contemporary All include your basic utilities Some do include WiFi and some do not WiFi in any French town is not taken by a homeowner to be a basic utility but is instead seen as a luxury or even an eccentricity We try to work with our owners a little bit more each year on this opinion but the old way of doing things has not yet been forgotten in much of rural France The housing assignments thus far for this fall are French Faculty Associate Program Managers Maison du Soleil where we will also have our program office during the afternoons Elizabeth Anglin Maino Cottage Art History Faculty The Sarah Leddick cottage Literature Faculty The Holleran Cottage Psychology Faculty Flat atop Caf le Commerce or Roy Cottage History of Science Faculty Ingram Cottage Brent and Mary Greene Ingram Cottage from 1 October

WiFi is always available inside of the abbey campus s WiFi salon 24 7 and also in the adjacent Skype phone booth Those faculty who do have WiFi in their cottages have been known to open up their dining room tables or living rooms to those of us whose cottages aren t connected often in exchange over a bottle of wine You will be teaching in Paris no more than one full day with the exception of our French faculty who will be teaching every morning except our first Saturday in the city If you re teaching one of the ParisWEEK labs your housing will be provided for three nights in Paris at a 2 star hotel close to our students hostel for the two nights before you teach and the night that you ve taught or a configuration of these nights that makes more sense for you If you want to extend your stay feel free to do this and stay for the entire week or more at your own expense If you don t know Paris well and will require additional time in the city to be fully prepared to teach your lab there we will arrange and pay for extra time in the city as necessary Meals Lunch will be provided for you each day of the school week in Pontlevoy Monday Friday at Caf Le Commerce Your significant other will be invited to join The Village for lunch twice each week at her his discretion If we have a planned faculty meeting over lunch it s fine for your partner to lunch that day at Le Commerce but not at our table Frankly we will be boring on these days It is certainly acceptable if s he wants to come more than twice a week however the extra meals will be your responsibility Lunch consists of the plat du jour or a substantial salad plus all of the local bread you can eat Soda coffee wine or beverages other than water are your own responsibility You or your spouse may elect to have the full menu at Le Commerce and enjoy a great starter and a dessert We all do this at times Those extra elements will be yours to fund In general Julien the patron of Le Commerce will start a tab for you and your partner so that you can order drinks and extra food elements as you wish Arrange to square up with him at the end of the week or every other week Just ask him to do this when you meet him Historically we have organized different themed tables to meet regularly over our lunchtime A French table has been popular in the past even among students and faculty whose French is just getting started To keep these tables from trying too hard and thus not surviving it can make sense to have our Program Coordinators work with the students to create these tables themselves and

schedule them say for only one table lunch each week We will sort this out over in France during Orientation buy for now Wednesdays are set aside for this Those of us who are teaching JOURNEY courses should consider scheduling a table each week or two with your JOURNEY group thus ensuring that planning and discussion related to JOURNEY keeps current In conjunction with themes in the course Intercultural Communications required of all our students The Village is going to discourage students from their possibly WiFi rich and conversation poor lunches back at home We want them to come to Le Commerce and interact with each other with us with our partners who are lunching there too and with their French neighbors To help this message work as well as possible please be mindful of limiting your own WiFi use over lunch Also in conjunction with the course Intercultural Communications one lunch each week will have communication themes for our students to process at their own tables at times with us eating as their tablemates and sometimes with them on their own Our Program Coordinators will develop these themes so as to capture some of what the students learn about each other bringing these stories into our program s larger conversation Dinners will be on your own Breakfasts will be on your own Medical You should plan to bring all of the medicines you will need while in Europe as well as copies of the important prescriptions you use We further suggest that you bring along any cold remedies that you favor Otherwise the pharmacy is an incredible resource all over France and indeed in little Pontlevoy The folks who work at these will eagerly and effectively steer you toward wellness For medical ailments that might arise there are two local doctors in Pontlevoy who keep regular office hours and will even do house calls Anything more serious will mean a trip to the hospital in Blois which is about 20 minutes away Your health coverage from the USA can get complicated in Europe even if it usually covers you fully or almost fully You should contact your insurer at home to verify what your coverage abroad consists of and how to access it abroad if in fact you end up needing it The easiest way to have total peace of mind is to do for yourself and your partner what The Village requires of our students and get Study Abroad Medical Insurance for three months Depending on your age this is either a minor expense of 35 month or a more annoying amount of about 275 month I m in the higher category myself and I don t get the insurance

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________________________________________________________________ Part III Teaching Planning Your Courses Pontlevoy Paris and JOURNEY Preparing to teach any course is always an exciting challenge When the course is be taught in Europe the excitement and the challenges increase You will be more successful by planning prior to the start of The Village and asking for help when needed Most of our courses are taught in Pontlevoy with a day of teaching to be done in Paris Preparation for these courses is fairly traditional and straight forward What you need to do includes the following Choose your course themes to maximize what you know best care most about and want to learn Where possible make links with other courses described in our website summaries and in the sample syllabi that have been built for each course Select readings with care ensuring that your major themes are elucidated in what you assign Each work you assign should be relevant to your students vis vis the stated learning outcomes of your course Choose activities to do with your students in class or via extra assignments that collapse the traditional classroom boundaries and get them out into Pontlevoy creating an experiential context for what they re learning Plan to have more such activities earlier in the semester before the students have been to Paris and all over Europe Looking at a stone carving in a Pontlevoy alley feels exciting the first two weeks of term but once they ve seen Paris Consider creating assignments papers etc that blend together high and low tech elements Err on the side of low tech Examples of this are 1 an English class that requires students to keep a journal and write their shorter essays in a moleskin notebook which is turned in periodically to the professor and which then becomes a valued keep sake from the semester 2 a History class that has students write their papers in longhand in conjunction with each student keeping a History blog for photos and critical observations Consider carefully the Village Lab sessions that will be allocated to your course s in terms of contact hours A summary sheet related to these will be emailed to everyone in the summer so that you will have ample time to

prepare for the on site teaching you ll do in Bourre Montrichard Amboise Tours and Blois in conjunction with our Village Labs in these places Look carefully at the academic calendar for The Village and the mid term exam dates that have been set for your class es These dates can be changed We ve set them to give the students some recovery time between their different classes Make very clear to your students due dates and times when they will have exams Remind them again in France of when these critical due dates and testing fall within the larger calendar Prepare your teaching plan for your course s so that you are not WiFi dependent when it comes to delivering your content Many of us are used to relying on Powerpoint slides for our lectures The larger point on this is simple why come to France to watch the same slides that students are going to see anywhere else in the world where they might take a course like yours What is relevant and useful about the cultural context of France Ireland Germany That having been said slides can be a great tool to use in almost any discipline you name Be forewarned if you come to your classroom inside of the abbey expecting your slides to pull down from the internet or your cloud storage you will be continually challenged by bad bandwidth or an internet connection that s down It is essential that you copy all of your slides and other elements of your classroom teaching plan to a hard drive or thumb drive so that you can present your lesson without relying on WiFi Have all of your student assignments handed to you in a longhand format or emailed to you at an account address you provide on your syllabus Don t ask students to print their own papers Plan your course s so that at the end of each week you can succinctly summarize with your students what you achieved that week and the goals for the following week ParisWEEK There s no more beloved time our students have on The Village than our legendary ParisWEEK In Paris we will be organizing our time with the students in a three part structure 1 Students taking French will meet with our French faculty every morning other than our program s free day These sessions will last about an hour 2 Students will all have our Saturday in Paris as their City Sojourn which means that we will not schedule anything to stop them from exploring getting lost caf sitting and otherwise relishing the chance to take at least SOME of this one day to be by themselves in Paris 3 Each of our main academic disciplines will be folding together all of the students who are taking a course in that discipline in any configuration for a half day session of a disciplinary specific lab Due to the richness of our

art museums in Paris there are 2 labs scheduled for students of Art and the first of these our Paris Sunday at the Louvre will be open to all students regardless of whether they are in Art or not Otherwise History History of Science English and Art will each have a Lab day in Paris This system requires that you work with The Village director staff and your fellow colleagues to plan out and literally map out a great teaching plan for your Lab Day in the city Most successful Lab Day versions had a very clear focus so that you can deliver a really insightful and dynamic kind of walking lecture related to your class and its material You can think about this in many ways but our strong suggestion is that you develop a path through the city that can simultaneously open up some of what s small and intimate about Paris even as you move in your session toward what s grand and giant about the place We can and will meet as a faculty to discuss our various plans for these Lab Days but here are some thoughts to get you thinking now about how to best utilize the time your discipline Use your day in Paris as a field exercise to hammer home what you ve been teaching in your Pontlevoy sessions of class Be clear in advance as you discuss Paris with your students what you plan to show them and what you want them to learn Be equally clear and consistent about what will be laid out as Village Program rules for Paris that all students will be on time for all sessions that all students will have proper shoes and clothing to fit the weather conditions that all students will be prepared to walk for hours and keep up well with the group that any student who isn t feeling well will feel confident to self identify prior to the start of the Lab so that s he can be tended to back at the hostel that stops for the restroom to buy a water or to grab cash at an ATM will be built into the Lab program at specific times announced by the faculty that the Lab will break for an independent lunch but require everyone to reassemble at a chosen spot on time after lunch that the Lab will likely end in the middle of the city with students then free to continue exploring on their own Consider ending your formal walking lecture at a museum or historic site which can in some way be a great review point or expression about your day Example History LAB might do a full session on the French Revolution walking from the Bastille to the Place de la Concorde To finish the day the group might go to the Marais neighborhood to visit the Musee Carnavalet with its huge collection devoted to the French Revolution Prepare in advance as to how you will handle really bad weather if this should arise What caf can you duck into along the way so that wet students can grab a coffee while you teach them inside Example on one of your prep days in Paris before you teach walk the route you plan to

take with your students and keep your eyes open as you look for a nice caf that could serve as a refuge Even better pop in and introduce yourself and ask if coming in on your day in question with a group of thirsty students might be ok Find in advance by walking it your yourself a good neighborhood where you can break for lunch Example walk this on one of your prep days so that you can know where to show your students to get cheap street food or a full lunch Prepare in advance the places along your lecture route where you can duck into to talk and teach These places might be just nooks and crannies along the way or maybe you will find a few perfect parks with benches Here s an overview of The Village in Paris showing the Bastille Hostel where the students will be staying and some other landmarks that the program tends to find And this is a template of the form we use to plan our Lab sessions during ParisWEEK

________________________________________________________________ Date for Lab Friday 10 October Course Discipline History Team teaching with another faculty discipline NO Academic Theme The French Revolution Departure Time 10 00 am Departure Point Hostel Drop off Point Carnavalet Museum Itinerary Transportation Plan Metro Walking etc Walk to Bastille walk to Notre Dame walk to Odeon walk to Place de la Concorde walk metro to St Paul Risks if any to Consider Walking cars metro Neighborhood for Lunch Left Bank with a meet up in front of the Medici Fountain in the Luxembourg Garden Grand Elements of Paris to Include Bastille River and bridges Notre Dame Sorbonne Blvd St Germain and St Michel Luxembourg Garden Danton Statue National Assembly Place de la Concorde Arc de Triomphe and Louvre pyramid from afar Hotel Soubise National Archives Carnavalet Museum Intimate Elements of Paris to Include Left Bank alleys and streets around Sorbonne and Odeon The Marais Museum or other sites to include and why tickets or bookings required if any Interior of Notre Dame free Carnavalet free Where and when will this plan be discussed in detail with students prior to Paris First day of class in a general way Other times in class while teaching The last class session before Paris and in the morning as we gather to launch the day On the morning when we meet up ________________________________________________________________ To be completed on the morning of Lab DAY Have their been any major changes made to any of the above Is any student sick and unable to join the group Who is the student and have you notified Village Program staff ______________________ _____________________ Village Faculty Lab Leader Village Program Staff

JOURNEY If Paris is the most beloved moment in The Village calendar JOURNEY trails behind by very little The chance to go on the road and explore a fascinating subject with a like minded band of students is rare We require it To prepare for this as a professor involves understanding how JOURNEY courses differ from our other classes on the program 1 They will be taught in a seminar format with bi weekly evening sessions to be held on Monday nights in Pontlevoy during and after our dinners at Le Commerce from 6 30PM until 9PM 2 The sessions in Pontlevoy will be taught such that the class is prepared academically for the fieldwork elements which will be taught in Paris and at your away destination Remember Your ParisLAB will include not only students who are taking your discipline but also JOURNEY students thus regular and Journey students 3 You will want to prepare your students during your JOURNEY sessions in Pontlevoy not just for the academics that you re going to explore but also for the practical matters associated with VERY active learning How to pack what not to pack how to manage the transitions and uncertainties of travel how to keep a positive attitude in place when things go wrong how to think about staying healthy while traveling etc 4 You will want to have clearly defined meeting goals for your sessions back in Pontlevoy Lay out clear themes for each session that relate fully to readings and other assignments scheduled for discussion at these sessions 5 You ll want to work with the Village Director to develop full and workable teaching plans for each of our academic days in your JOURNEY city Your teaching in these cities should reflect and mirror in many ways the same format that you used to deliver your Lab session in ParisWEEK Indeed the planning document to get your JOURNEY course ready to teach will be almost identical to the Paris template shown prior 6 After JOURNEY comes to an end your students will take off from their Journey Away city for the 6 days of their second VisionQUEST You are free to travel or return to Pontlevoy The students may also return to Pontlevoy if they choose to and stay at The Abbey 7 When JOURNEY and VisionQUEST are both completed your students will return and have a day to recover followed by a full day focused solely on JOURNEY review They will submit their final project to you or take their final on the day following their review This will complete the course

Preparing and Distributing Your Syllabi Your syllabi should be completed and emailed to dougmackaman gmail com no later than 20 May It is important that this date be respected so that all program syllabi can be standardized to include required ADA and other stipulations Your syllabi will then be emailed back to you in both a Word and PDF format for your records Next your students will be sent this version of your syllabi in a PDF format via email All program syllabi will also be included in the Village Program Manual and posted directly to our Village Program Facebook page It will be noted on the syllabi that students should expect changes in dates and topics and that final versions of the syllabi will be presented to them in hard copy format on the first day of class in Pontlevoy When you ve completed alterations and edits to your syllabi over the course of the summer email your FINAL syllabi to dougmackaman gmail com no later than 10 August Students today look at their syllabus from you as a contract of sorts Because some elements of the course you deliver will change from what s on your syllabus here are some tips 1 Acculturate the students from your first contact with them over email that your class is going to evolve as opportunities for new and exciting learning present themselves over in France Flexibility can be a best friend of dynamic teaching so pointing this out to them in your syllabus and how you talk about your class is a smart thing 2 Build into your syllabus and your teaching each week some clear attention to academic road mapping What are we going to do in the week ahead How will we be building on what we accomplished last week Who in the group can offer our class summary of what surprised us from last week and what were our main learning outcomes You can and should use your own tactics and voice to do this road mapping The more you incorporate structures in your class that reinforce and link meaning the more connected the class will feel to what you re doing in a big picture way You might consider having the students share the responsibility for doing this perhaps with a designee each week as your class scribe or blogger 3 Be crystal clear with your students about expectations Be clear with them on how they re going to be assessed Have them understand from the outset that everything you assign will reappear in a discussion in the streets of Paris or on an exam paper 4 Consider drafting a class motto or credo to make manifest where your learning outcomes and academic values will be intersecting as a group Have the students draft this manifesto up after your first class session and then present it to you for your signature and their own

Why is the study of Art important to our lives What about Art do we most want to learn here in Europe How will we agree to respect our different voices and energies as learners How will we be open and flexible to learn in new ways that present themselves to us as The Village evolves What are the deepest goals we want to achieve in this class TEMPLATE SYLLABUS Intercultural Communications The Village Program ________________________________________________________________ Overview Europe is a dynamic hub of ideas and experiences and The Village s required course in Intercultural Communications will position its students at the heart of that nexus This course will provide its students with the communicative tools to assess develop and thoughtfully articulate their dynamic place in a global world while seeking to improve their abilities to master communication challenges both large and small Holistic Learning Outcomes An improved sense of self awareness self reliance and self confidence A more empathic and nuanced awareness of cultural difference A more well tuned awareness of the virtues and challenges associated with virtual versus face to face communications and relationship building Improved skills in self presentation and empathic listening Heightened abilities to navigate group dynamics and effectively articulate solutions to or ideas about conflict resolution Themes 1 What are our personal communicative toolkits prior to The Village and how do three months of living and learning all over Europe change how we value and utilize our communicative resources

2 How does being abroad help us to develop our skills as proactive and empathic listeners and in turn facilitate new strengths in self awareness and self presentation 3 How do we master our own best communicative practices when we need to argue persuade build trust seek personal or professional alliances share personal histories develop personal goals seek professional mentorship or opportunity or assess and solve personal group conflict 4 How can we interrogate and problematize our social media world of today so that we use virtual communications as a communicative tool in conjunction with a well developed arsenal of face to face and other ways of reaching out to the people in our worlds 5 How can we take the relative paucity of our linguistic abilities while abroad and how we aren t able to use in our communicative infrastructure the building blocks of shared cultural references humor or the bolstering presence of familiar friends or family and convert that lack into an awareness of how much other people and foreign people can teach us about themselves and in turn about ourselves Attendance Student attendance is required at scheduled classes excursions and field exercises Attendance will be taken each day Missing three classes without a valid explanation medical excuse will result in an F grade and termination from the class and The Village Program Students are required to attend all Village Program lunches and dinners Cell phones tablets and other WiFi connected devices are forbidden in all class sessions including all active class times of program lunches and dinners Readings Duane Elmer Cross Cultural Connections Stepping out and Fitting in Around the World IVP Academic Press 2002 Kindle Edition Specific textbook and supplemental assignments will be made to all students via email prior to the launch of The Village Program Assignments and Assessment Communications self audits to be done prior to the program s launch and again in the final three weeks of the program to assess Social media use face to face communications over meals meetings and experiences with otherness and difference and related to global competency and awareness Audit forms will

be sent to each student by 1 August and completed by 1 September and again on 9 November to be completed by 30 November 20 of grade Students will keep a communications journal and submit this periodically during the semester 20 of grade Students will participate actively and constructively in all class activities 30 of grade Students will make small group presentations and two large group speeches on topics to be assigned 30 of grade Office Hours I will be available for consultation on any academic matters on Mondays from 1 30 2 30 at Caf le Commerce and on Wednesday from 4 005 00 at Caf Brazza Schedule of Topics Pre departure Orientation to The Village Program Benchmark Audit 1 social media use over the last three weeks in the USA Benchmark Audit 2 face to face communication over lunch and dinner Benchmark Audit 3 cultural or social meetings with otherness or difference Benchmark Audit 4 global competency and awareness Museums Public Transportation Foreign Films new foods second language use etc 4 September Meeting yourself and meeting your European Village Activity orientation and tour of Pontlevoy 6 September Communications within the group and the family Activity hosting 15 French families to a wine and cheese event on campus 8 September Chateau Meeting food and eating rituals in France Leadership Seminar Dinner who are we and how can we communicate what s essential about ourselves to a group 10 September The Stories we Tell what are things about our hometowns or our personal experiences that contribute to defining who we are How do we relate these stories to others Activity the Pontlevoy legend of the Midnight Stone as told by a local mostly in his own language 15 September Rhetoric 1 what are the rules for making fair and compelling arguments about simple things that aren t simple like our plans for the future Activity Describe your travel plans for Vision Quest 1 to a small group of Village students and French people if available Explain why you want to go where you re planning to go what research you ve done to prepare for the trip and

17 September 21 September 24 September 1 October 4 October 14 October what if anything you re worried about where the plans are concerned Take and answer questions Rhetoric 2 gestural vocabulary and how we are physical as communicators Activity Create and perform skits that show how French people comport themselves in public as they meet friends as they wait in lines or ride trains Then do the same skits displaying American comportment Leadership Dinner Salon personal passion and how we find it understand it and make it central to how we communicate Rhetoric 3 Professional commitments and communication how do we best communicate our professional lives to family and others and how do we justify our priorities and attendant decisions Activity ask a Village student to share her his midterm study plans with you and then discuss with that student your own plan and how the two are similar and different Urban Wayfinding how are the working systems of a great city communicated in signs and otherwise so that visitors and residents who are foreign can come to make themselves at home Activity Alone or in a group of no more than three find your way through Paris to our program hostel from a train station Ask directions as needed But a carnet of metro tickets for your personal use and get a map Identify a caf you want to choose as your own spot for morning coffee or a cold beverage Buy a map International Languages 1 how can objects of art and beauty generally help to draw people together in a shared experience of culture regardless of where we come from or the languages we speak Activity Visit the Louvre Museum and assess how you experience a set of works you ve selected in advance to spend time looking at How do others behave around these works International Languages 2 how is the experience of travel and its fusion of dislocation and newness something that people from all over share in some common ways Activity Ask a French person in Pontlevoy about her or his favorite travel story Record this in your journal Tell your own version of a travel story to this person Note how s he reacts to your story and compare in your journal the reaction you got with the reaction you wanted

19 October 21 October 9 November 10 November 12 November 16 November 17 November 23 November 26 November Accountability Adaptability and Communications how do we self assess and stand up in front of people who know us or work with us and explain what we did right on a project and what we did wrong How do we handle criticism Activity Present your brief summary of Vision Quest 1 to a small group of fellow students and tell how your travels fell short or exceeded your expectations Explain how it feels to take responsibility both for what worked and what did not Multiculturalism and the New Europe Leadership Seminar Dinner Appreciative communications how do we compellingly and honestly express thanks to others for the gifts in life we ve been given Rhetoric 4 Memorializing Language Activity Participate with The Village in Pontlevoy s public commemoration of Armistice Day Assess and record in your journal your thoughts on this ceremony and how its message was communicated Crisis communications how do we effectively handle different kinds of crisis situations and how do we work with others to develop solutions and communicate these to a wider audience Leadership Seminar Dinner VisionQUEST Presentations begun Professional Communications how do we develop our own elevator speech our own resume and our own strategies for doing well in a career search Leadership Seminar Dinner VisionQUEST Presentations concluded Our Village goodbye how can we thank our French neighbors for all that they ve helped us to learn about ourselves in three months Activity nominate 3 students to make toasts at Thanksgiving on behalf of everyone Help these students to prepare support them in their efforts Using the traditional classroom We schedule our Village classes so that there s almost never an instance of two classes meeting at the same time This is meant to make it so students are never blocked from taking a class they want or need on account of scheduling This means that in almost every case our classes will be assigned to Abbey Classroom 1 on our campus Located on the second floor of The Abbey building classroom 1 is light and open with wooden tables for the students that can be arranged either auditorium or seminar style There s a white board available

Internet connectivity is possible in this classroom but you should plan your class sessions so you don t depend on this to work If ever there s been cause for a professor requiring a glass of wine and a pep talk at lunch it s because s he has just come from a class that was built around web based tools that utterly failed to function Classes on The Village tend to work best when you get the right balance between time in the traditional classroom and time outside of it doing anything you can outdoors or in a caf or in the streets of Pontlevoy Too much active learning yes there can be too much and the students rightly feel like they re losing a much needed thread of connection to what they ve always experienced as traditional learning Too little time out exploring and they feel conversely like they might as well not be in France The Flying Buttress is a second location to meet with your classes if you need to show a movie or make heavy use of an overhead projector to show slides This room is on the third floor of The Abbey Building If you want to use it for class make sure that you speak to either our Village Coordinator or the property manager of the Eur Am Center the organization that manages The Abbey building so that it is unlocked and ready for your use Another place to hold class occasionally is the conference room on the second floor of The Abbey building Especially in November when it s getting colder in the building and we break out the space heaters this room can be a cozy space to hold class If you want to use it for class make sure that you speak to either our Village Coordinator or the property manager of the Eur Am Center the

organization that manages The Abbey building so that it is unlocked and ready for your use Be sure to have your students clean up anything they ve brought with them to class and put their chairs back in place before they leave Try to remember to erase your white board Finish class on time so that the next group coming in can start when scheduled Active learning opportunities in and around The Village A hallmark of our teaching has always been the active ways we try to blend together what we teach with where we teach We are limited by the total number of contact hours we have for each class It is key to be clever with how and when you choose to get out into town or into the region for your teaching Earlier on in the semester i e before they ve seen Paris you will get the biggest reward for stepping out into town and holding class on the fly Everything feels new and exciting those early September days If you know the students in French 1 have just started to get confident about ordering food and you ve got a morning class consider sending a few of the group down to the bakery to take Euros that have been pooled and getting a treat to help drive a class discussion out on the lawn of The Abbey Be sure you know the eccentric hours of business for the bakery and our cafes before you key everyone up for fun learning involving these We ve had our smaller classes meet effectively over coffee at Caf Brazza in town Ditto meeting in The Abbey s historic chapel though this you will need to arrange in advance with the property management The cemetery has been our classroom many times and so have most of the streets of The Village If you re excited about it chances are good that the students will be excited too If you want to have students to your cottage for coffee that s always a great win also We can work with you to help you get out of Pontlevoy with your classes but this does take advance planning in terms of getting our transportation and timing set so that you get out and back without making students miss other class obligations Using The Village Labs The Village Lab TVL will be our chance as a program to leave Pontlevoy on three occasions in the earlier part of the semester These are terrific chances for

you to prepare your classes to make connections of what you re teaching them beyond your readings discussions and Pontlevoy itself Start planning early what you will want to do with your students or have them do on their own in the places we will be going for The Village Lab 1 TVL will be in Bourre and Montrichard our very first weekend of the program We will be visiting the underground caves of Bourre which are the old quarries that gave France s chateaux their stones and have also long been home to an important mushroom cultivating business The owners of the caves will show us their charms Then onto Montrichard we will go to explore the ruins of its 11th century castle before descending on the town for dinner We will develop a plan to organize our teaching onsite in both places 2 The next week TVL goes to Amboise on Friday We will visit both the historic Chateau d Amobise and the famous Clos Luce where Leonardo de Vinci lived out his last years Afterwards we take the train to Tours for an overnight there As with our earlier TVL we will coordinate a rough teaching plan in advance of this session 3 TVL will go to Blois the fourth Friday of our semester There we will see the controversial chapel murals of Lorjou as well as the chateau The following day TVL will focus on the grape harvest in a nearby town We get to TVL s via our own transportation combined with trains on occasion This means that we will have our vans and cars in session to ferry students When our sessions are close to home as in Bourre and Montrichard we will often take two flights to get where we are going For longer runs like Amboise we will usually rent additional vans so that we can get where we are going in a single trip We will typically need some faculty driving if you re comfortable doing so please let me know Assignments We have many different disciplines in our curriculum so we will have a wide range of different student assignments As in your classes at home it s wise on The Village to vary what you assign your students Because our program stresses academic rigor this variance should not go so far as to allow for graded work that seems easy or like fluff to the students Use your best creativity here and feel free to ask your colleagues or Village staff what seems reasonable and realistic All classes should require perfect attendance significant reading discussion and writing at least one midterm examination and a final Other assignments can include traditional papers book reviews and oral presentations Though we like to de emphasize our use of tech because our tech tends to be so poor in Pontlevoy it is possible to have your students get pretty creative on

group projects that have a tech grid as their requirement Examples might include Have your class write direct and star in a digital short that can be done using a Smartphone and edited on any Macbook Pro At the class s discretion this assignment can then be posted on YouTube and our program Facebook group You will need to get your entire class to agree to this kind of public posting before Have your class do a podcast satirical ironic or transparent about something local that relates to your material At the class s discretion this assignment can then be posted on YouTube and our program Facebook group You will need to get your entire class to agree to this kind of public posting before Have your class organize its own Blog related to your class themes and assignments so that students are posting their creative and analytical work on a weekly basis The key to these more tech based assignments is to schedule them carefully with respect to the students other commitments and bigger calendar Is it possible to have assignments such as these done right before the program goes for ParisWEEK Yes though it is also a bad idea Having one such project assigned early in the term when bonds are still forming and people are still energetic about taking on bigger swaths of growth is almost always a good plan And then having a more summary sort of project on the books for the final weeks of term can feel good In general keep these things in mind 1 2 3 Assignments should be emailed to you or turned in longhand Forget about having the students print up papers This an impractical pain Be sure to emphasize to the students that you will be accepting of late work if it s in fact true that the WiFi is down in town We will all know if this is the case but it s still good to let the students know that they need not panic if they have a completed paper to email you and they can t login to send it Have the students use old school notebooks that they turn in to you with journals and such is always a win Find the Moleskin you like best and require one in your syllabus The students will then have an invaluable keepsake from The Village In advance of your assignments make it clear that plagiarism will not be tolerated Let them know that you re going to nail them if they try anything stupid on this score

4 Build in something akin to an oral project They dread this more than anything and get sick worrying over it yet being able to speak in public is a veritable requirement for success in life Our French classes will be asking this of them every single day Office hours and advisement Try to make yourself as available to your students as you possibly can especially around weeks that feature exams or other assignments The cafes in Pontlevoy are a good place to perch with a nice coffee for your scheduled office hours which should be held twice a week for about an hour each time Alternatively you can schedule these by appointment But if you do this please be sure to remind the students all semester long that you re happy to meet with them If you can do so please consider inviting every student taking your class to do at least one session of advisement with you during which you speak about the class and the wider work of processing the program that the students will be doing These can be short chats only and really they can function as checkpoints of sorts But if you re teaching literature for example it can feel pretty special to a student to be asked by you what do you feel like at this time of your life as you read something like The Dubliners You can mention this on your syllabus either formally or informally but doing this in some way will be positive for the students after they ve talked with you They won t have their families to talk to and process with while The Village is happening Our staff will work hard to make sure that we hear them and help them to open up But anything you can do to help them make sense of their time abroad will be a great and very human help to them both immediately and much farther down the road They will know that our faculty team really cared about them Monday Dinner SEMINARS and Wednesday SALONS France is a place where everyone goes to eat Our students will experience the culinary treasures of this truth in two ways that will be helped by our program Over the whole semester we will meet as a program on Monday evenings at Caf le Commerce for a dinner seminar The focus of this seminar will alternate in the weeks leading up to JOURNEY between an academic focus on Intercultural Communications and the themes of our JOURNEY disciplines All faculty will needed at the JOURNEY seminars All faculty will be requested at the Communication seminars Dinner will be provided for faculty and spouses in all cases

After JOURNEY the seminars will focus solely on Communications Faculty who can attend these will be welcome In the first month of our calendar we will be hosted as a faculty by Dr Morris and Sally Marx at their cottage together with a third of our student group each week for a cultural salon to feature light snacks and beverages This salon will usually be set for Wednesday evening Our French friends from The Village will be invited The pleasure of the company of faculty and their spouses will be requested and so will some catering help Teaching Schedules Our Village teaching schedule is posted on our Google calendar Please note that our teaching schedules change slightly over the course of the semester as our 4 weeks only classes drop off after Paris Here are our Monday Wednesday classes before Paris

Here are our Tuesday Thursday assignments before Paris Here is what the Monday Wednesday schedule becomes after Paris and JOURNEY

And here s the Tuesday Thursday schedule after Paris and JOURNEY Course Rosters and Registration UWF Accounts You will receive a UWF faculty email account and access to UWF registration software where your course rosters and other academic details will be centralized for your use Please activate your UWF account as soon as you receive information from Sara Brake at UWF on this Your students will have until Thursday at the end of our first week of class to decide if they wish to add or drop your class You will need to confirm on the first day of your class meetings that all registered students are attending your classes and you will need to confirm if there have been any ads of drops by the end of Thursday of the first week of classes

________________________________________________________________ Part IV Faculty Service and Extra Issues Your role as a Village Program faculty will ask more of you early in the semester and at the points in our semester when the program goes on the move In addition there will be many times during the semester when you will serve the students and the program in ways that aren t just about your academic expertise Orientation Our Village Orientation starts on arrival Thursday and continues without relent through the next three days We intentionally keep the students very busy which means in turn that we are all busy too This is an exciting time for our students and a busy time for all of us Please keep in mind that any personal matters you need to attend to at this time or issues that might arise about your cottage or your own comfort will need to take a back seat during this opening period of the program when all of us will be focusing on creating the best possible entry for our students into their experience Your program staff will prepare you as we get closer to the launch of The Village for what will be asked of you during orientation But in a general sense the following are what we try to do during orientation Show the students their locale how to meet their basic needs in town Introduce ourselves to the students and them to all of us as we establish rules and agreements about how our community will conduct itself Transition our students into an experiential and active way of learning via a series of local activities we will organize in Pontlevoy and through the vehicle of our Village Lab trips to Bourre and Montrichard Introduce our students to their French neighbors in both an informal sense via meals at Caf le Commerce and small events in Pontlevoy and a formal one through the Host Family Welcome that we will help our students to plan and cater for our first Sunday evening

You and your partner spouse will be vitally important members of the community we build with the students so we will want you at these opening weekend activities that surround our orientation We also ask for your help in reinforcing with our students the deeper reasons why they chose to make their journey to The Village sometimes these young people can start to shut down emotionally as the initial rush of excitement gives way to some version of buyer s remorse Often the appearance of a kid seeming pretty blue and unmotivated is masking some real progress that s happening underneath an angsty surface That s the perfect moment to try any of the following little things to help them help themselves Invite a student or two to sit with you at lunch Ask a small group if they d like to have a hike out over the rolling hills to see if going all the way to Monthou sur Cher might be possible It probably is not unless you have VERY intrepid walkers and a great day for weather Propose to some students the idea of going to Caf de la Poste for a coffee and ask why nobody ever seems to go there Query some students on what they re cooking and offer to do a swap you and your spouse host a small group of them for a meal at your cottage in exchange for them cooking for you at the abbey the next week For the most part you don t need to be a camp counselor or a cheerleader except for that first week or two The trick here is to figure out who is getting lost as the group begins its fast and furious bonding There s mostly not an overt exclusionary energy from the group that keeps anybody out Instead we tend to see students falter early on who have a prickly side or a lack of social success or an insecurity that they mask behind arrogance bossiness or any manner of everything in between such that it feels easier for them to opt out of the good energy that s drawing most everybody else together We ll discuss these situations as they present themselves as we all roll up our sleeves and try to find gentle and subtle ways to support with our own modeling and suggestions the main points we will cover in our orientation That nobody is going to be left behind in The Village That this program is meant to sing in different keys and sometimes sound awful That the program will feel very hard on a number of occasions for everybody That trust in others and trust in ourselves grow through challenging experiences That tiny moments of success are almost always worth as much as great ones That boisterous and extroverted social energy and success might be a sail While reflective and empathic sharing are a centerboard

Van Driving for The Village Our Transportation plan for the program will call on all of us who are willing and able to drive to do so periodically This driving is mostly focused on our various excursions for The Village Lab and on the weekend drops and pickups we do as a program to help the students to travel within the region and beyond We will make a master calendar to schedule our transportation needs for faculty drivers either before we get to France or in our first week there In general nobody should need to do more than 5 6 round trip drives to the nearby train station in Montrichard In general these trips are either in the late afternoon on Thursday the middle morning on Friday or Saturday and or the early evening on Sunday Faculty Meetings Though we might loathe our own faculty meetings those of The Village tend to be very infrequent on the program apart from first week Thereafter they are mostly superseded by informal lunch and ap ro the lovely aperitif tradition circumstances during which we accomplish as much or more as any traditional meeting Either before the program launches or in our first week away we will build into our program calendar a plan to ensure that there are always at least 2 or more faculty in residence each weekend This will not mean that our folks in residence need to stay in their cottage or be at the abbey in an on call basis Rather it means that our folks scheduled to be in residence will be in town to sleep at night in the event of any emergency and will otherwise come and go as they wish Nobody will need to commit more than two weekends in Pontlevoy over the semester if extensive weekend travelling is preferred The faculty who stay in Pontlevoy will have access to the program van for errands and local touring We will remind you to please post a note up on the abbey s bulletin board if you re going somewhere in the van that a few students might want to go too Any time you can fill all the seats in the van with students this is a win Remember those kids who stay back on any of our three long travel weekends are likely doing so because they lack the funds to travel They might not have war stories to swap on Sunday night with the students who went to Amsterdam but the extra feeling of inclusivity they might gain because they went to Blois with a professor and her spouse and got lost driving around before

stopping to buy some amazing cheese and then going on to see a cool antique market well you get the point Student Complaints Complaints do come up on The Village and just like complaints at home they can be about anything and everything under the sun Our protocol for dealing with complaints or negativity is pretty simple And so is what we want to show the students when they have issues We want them to feel that their voices are being heard We also want them to understand that not everything they dislike about France your class Pontlevoy or the food at Le Commerce will be a problem that we can or will solve Toughness fortitude resiliency and adulthood are all life skills we want the students to learn about on The Village Even as we all agree to make every possible effort to show the students that their valid concerns will always be considered by us Any student who has a complaint or concern about any kind of academic issue will be told in our orientation and via other means that s he must speak directly to the professor in question about this matter Our staff will draft a simple form for students to fill out who have this kind of issue which will contain a resolution and next steps element that both the faculty member and student will sign Copies will be given to each and another copy will stay in the program s files Any student who goes to a professor and raises an academic issue and continues to feel that the issue has not been addressed will be told in orientation and via other means that s he will have a subsequent meeting with the professor in question and The Village Program director Our staff will draft a simple form for students to fill out who have this kind of issue which will contain a resolution and next steps element that the faculty member student and Program Director will sign Copies will be given to each and another copy will stay in the program s files Students who feel that their academic issues are still a problem will be referred to the Associate Vice Provost of the University of West Florida and our documentation will be forwarded to facilitate a discussion at this next level Students who have maintenance issues related to their rooms or their room equipment will asked to fill out forms developed by the Eur Am Center for International Education which is the property management company for the abbey Students will be told in orientation and through other communicative vehicles to take all student life health or wellness or safety security issues to The Village Program Coordinator who will be living on the hall with the students Our staff

will draft a simple form for students with this kind of issue to fill out It will contain a resolution and next steps element that both the Coordinator and student will sign Copies will be given to each and another copy will stay in the program s files Should the student life issue be one that involves some problem with our Program Coordinator or is related to an issue with which the student feels uncomfortable about talking to our Coordinator students will talk to our Associate Program Directors Our staff will draft a simple form for students who have this kind of issue to fill out It will contain a resolution and next steps element that both the Associate Program Director and student will sign Copies will be given to each and another copy will stay in the program s files Other issues raised by a student to anyone or issues that remain unresolved after discussion with a Coordinator or an Associate Program Director should be immediately raised with the Program Director Our staff will draft a simple form for students who have this kind of issue to fill out It will contain a resolution and next steps element that both Program Director and student will sign Copies will be given to each and another copy will stay in the program s files Students who feel that their student life issues are still a problem will be referred to the Associate Vice Provost of the University of West Florida and our documentation will be forwarded to facilitate a discussion at this next level Student Discipline Other Issues and Rules Complaints and issues can also be raised from the faculty and staff side about our students If you have a problem in class with a student we ask you to speak informally but directly to the student about this problem If the problem persists we ask that you meet with the student formally and discuss the matter further Our staff will draft a simple form for you to fill out which will contain a resolution and next steps element that both you and student will sign Copies will be given to each and another copy will stay in the program s files If you re still having issues with the student bring this matter to the attention of The Village Program Director Another meeting will be scheduled for the student you and the Director Our staff will draft a simple form for you to fill out which will contain a resolution and next steps element that you the Program Director and the student will sign Copies will be given to each and another copy will stay in the program s files If the matter persists the Associate Vice Provost at UWF will be contacted to consult on whether or not the student should be terminated from the program without appeal

Reminders on meeting with students Don t meet in private with a student who is having any issue of any kind with your class or the program Instead schedule a time to use the conference room and leave the door open so that you produce just enough appropriate privacy for the matter to be discussed If you feel any kind of odd energy from a student that might suggest anything inappropriate or just hits your intuition button in a negative way ask to be joined in your conversation or meeting by our Coordinator one of our Associate Directors or the Director Don t ever take up a serious academic or student life issue with a student if you are out at the caf and have an alcoholic drink in front of you This is about tone and perception from the student s point of view The Village Program rules will be covered in detail at our orientation and in other communications with the students For faculty purposes remember the following Any student who misses more than three academic classes or required academic excursions can be dismissed and sent home from the program Any student whose drinking becomes a safety or peace and quiet issue for the program and hits a second strike on this count can be dismissed and sent home from the program Any student whose comportment to fellow students faculty staff or our village neighbors is deemed a serious issue can be dismissed and sent home from the program after receiving a first written warning about these concerns Faculty Comportment The Village asks you to avoid any situations conduct or public conversations that could be perceived as inappropriate or in any way harassing to students If you re having drinks at Caf le Commerce after work with other faculty or spouses it s great to greet our students and chat with them briefly But we warn you to avoid sitting down and drinking at their tables with them Even if this is what they think they may want at the time it should never be what you think you want A general rule of thumb is to avoid places where the students are going to go to have their own measure of wildness and fun namely Caf le Commerce at night later than 10 00 PM By then we want this to be the students zone and not one that they need to share with our faculty

If you have students to your own cottage for a seminar or other meeting or a dinner it s at your discretion whether you serve them a token quantity of wine Any French host would do so of course and indeed you may choose to do so too But please make it effortless for the student to decline the offer and please remember that they may have no experience at all with wine or beer Meaning offer a glass and leave it at that If you do offer a glass of wine to students always be sure that there is food on offer too Don t have a student to your cottage by herself himself Always make any offer to host students be an inclusive one if it is social or else have such offers be academic and thus about a class you re teaching If you re out with students in any academic context or happen upon them in a social one and they have been drinking and or drinks are present please be firm with them in following what we will say in our orientation about social media do not consent to pose for any picture in which alcohol is in the frame unless the picture shows a ceremonial toast that can be immediately and effortlessly explained by the picture s context Be absolutely sure that you never make any comment about or reference to the physicality or attire of our students that could in any way be taken as a sexualizing comment The Village Program takes any suggestion of harassing or inappropriate faculty commenting with full Title IX seriousness in each and every case Emergencies We have excellent medical services in Pontlevoy so most health issues can be attended to locally by our staff and these professionals If you are on weekend duty in Pontlevoy we will have a French speaking staff member to assist in the event of a medical issue or emergency While we are in Paris our staff will manage any medical or health issues using local hospitals While the program is on JOURNEY our JOURNEY faculty will be in charge of managing any health or other emergency issues that arise We will discuss our protocol for managing these matters during our JOURNEY orientation with faculty In Pontlevoy Paris or on JOURNEY please be sure to communicate with The Village Program Staff either directly or via phone text Facebook message or email if you have to deal with any student who is not feeling physically or emotionally well in any way Our staff will provide you with forms and a full protocol on how to handle any student who is ill or distressed and under your responsibility

In our program orientation we will cover in some detail what our program protocol will be in the event of Geopolitical unrest of a pronounced sort occurring in Paris while we are there in our Journey cities while we are in them or elsewhere in Europe at any point in the program A threatening global circumstance that s latent during our time on the program but considered likely to become active Entities Globalizedu UWF and The Eur Am Center Even in the global world of educational work today we re still pretty used to having just one university or educational workplace to call or professional home at any given time On The Village you will interface with three separate entities over the course of the term and as you prepare to teach abroad Globalizedu organizes the program and its many details A private company owned and operated by Dr Doug Mackaman Globalizedu will be your main point of information for almost everything to do with The Village Meanwhile your academic appointment will be with the University of West Florida which is the academic school of record for The Village Program Just as your credentials will be approved by UWF so will your grades be filed with UWF All of your Village students regardless of what university they may normally attend will be UWF students while they are on The Village and will receive transcripts from UWF after the program is over Finally the program s main residential home during our semester in Europe will be the abbey of Pontlevoy which is administered by a French company called the European American Center for International Education or Eur Am Center