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David Sheftman
Instructor of English
English
(831) 477-5652
Aptos Campus Office 511C

Welcome to Cabrillo. I've been teaching English courses full time at our college since 2000. My Master of Arts degree is in English, Teaching of Composition, from San Francisco State University. I am a native New Yorker from the city of Flushing in the borough of Queens. My hobbies include playing chess, playing guitar, collecting baseball cards (primarily New York Mets). My work at Cabrillo has also included being the past department chair of Journalism and teaching the newspaper production courses.

Please do reach out to me for help and from all our wonderful support services at Cabrillo. We are here to help you succeed. We are all facing traumatic conditions in our lives, so building community is a key step to our general well being and our ability to engage regularly and successfully with our academic studies.

Office Hours:

Fall '22:

ENGL 1A section 22 online: Please log in on Canvas Monday August 29th to show your active participation. The class is taught asynchronously--no weekly Zoom meetings for instruction. Office hours are online in Zoom every Tuesday 11:00-12:07 pm. Check the class announcements in Canvas for the link to the Zoom meeting. Please send me an inbox message in Canvas before office hours to book a 15 minute appointment.

ENGL 2 section 01 online: Please log in on Canvas Monday August 29th to show your active participation. The class is taught asynchronously--no weekly Zoom meetings for instruction. Office hours are online in Zoom every Thursday 11:00-12:07 pm. Check the class announcements in Canvas for the link to the Zoom meeting. Please send me an inbox message in Canvas before office hours to book a 15 minute appointment.

ENGL 1A section 30 on campus: To keep your enrolled seat, you must attend the first class session on August 29th at 9:30 to 10:50 in room 315 Aptos campus. Students who don't attend the first class meeting can be dropped to provide room to add students from the waitlist who do attend the first class. Office hours are every Wednesday 8:00-9:07 am in room 315.

ENGL 1A section 35 on campus: To keep your enrolled seat, you must attend the first class session on August 29th from 11:00 to 12:30 pm in room 315 Aptos campus. Students who don't attend the first class meeting can be dropped to provide room to add students from the waitlist who do attend the first class. Office hours are every Monday 12:40 to 1:47 pm in room 511C.

IMPORTANT NOTES FOR YOUR SUCCESS IN CLASS:

  • Required course texts are available for purchase at our college's bookstore. Without the required texts, you will miss assignments that earn points toward your course grade

  • Students in ENGL 1A are required to take LIB 10 in the same semester (unless they passed LIB 10 in a previous semester). For help with your LIB 10 studies, contact your LIB 10 teacher.

  • My online classes are fully asynchronous, meaning no Zoom meetings to deliver instruction. Study materials and assignments are in CANVAS. Weekly participation to show engagement is required; this means logging in at least twice per week and spending at least three hours minimum each week in the course. Failure to show weekly engagement is grounds for being dropped from the class.

  • For online students: There are many ways to communicate with me in support of your studies: CANVAS inbox message, direct messaging in Pronto!, requesting a Zoom meeting, and attending office hours in Zoom (office hour is optional). For on campus F2F students: You can contact me via email at dasheftm@cabrillo.edu. Communicating is key!

  • Please access our many student services such as tutoring, Ask a Librarian, ASC (for support with disability-related accommodations), academic counseling, Student Health Services. Our student service professionals are here to support you.