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Faculty Development Opportunities — 01/13/2021


Faculty Development Opportunities At-a-Glance

Canvas User Credential Course                                                        (registration open now) 

Journaling for Resilience begins (Every Mon. & Thurs.)       begins Jan. 11            12-12:30pm

Service-Learning Prof. Dev. course opens                                        Jan. 11-Apr. 1

Faculty Portfolio Consultations                                                           Jan. 12            2-3:00pm
Jan. 15            2-3:00pm
Jan. 20            12-1:00pm
Jan. 22            10-1:00am

Faculty Dashboard Training                                                               Jan. 22            1-2:00pm

Tech Tip Tuesday                                                                               Jan. 26            12-1:00pm

WAC Publishing Your Work Series:  Submitting Queries                  Jan. 27            12-1:00pm

Creating Effective Assignments, Rubrics & Assessments                

(Join Tom Zane and the SLOA Committee for these sessions) Jan. 22        10-11:00pm

                                                                                                            Jan. 26            2:30-3:30pm

                                                                                                            Jan. 27            2:30-3:30pm

                                                                                                            Feb. 2              2:30-3:30pm

                                                                                                            Feb. 3              2:30-3:30pm

                                                                                                            Feb. 4              12-1:00pm

                                                                                                            Feb. 5              12-1:00pm

Online Teacher Credential Course (registration is open)                  Starts Feb. 8

Teaching for Learning (T4L) Conference                                           Feb. 26

 

Register for above events in the SLCC Registration System under the Employee Tab.  These events are virtual unless noted otherwise. Look for these events under Faculty Development in the SLCC Registration System unless another department is specified.

 

 

Take time for yourself.

Journaling for Resilience
Spring Semester 2021:  Mondays and/or Thursdays
12-12:30pm
Join the Writing Across the College program for Journaling for Resilience, twice-weekly half-hour sessions of personal writing. In each session, you’ll find a selection of journaling prompts that will encourage you to explore how you are doing, what you need, or what you are grateful for. Drop in when you can; stay for as long as feels right to you. 

No registration required. Just log in to Zoom below.  Contact tiffany.rousculp@slcc.eduwith questions or recommendations. No compensation for this event.

Join Zoom Meeting: https://slcc-edu.zoom.us/j/86751158146?pwd=VVZjcGxpdVVDL2tGUXgrZU9VYjVVdz09

Meeting ID: 867 5115 8146

Passcode: 693779       

 

Would you like help developing quality assignments?
Creating Effective Assignments, Rubrics, and Assessments
Multiple dates in Jan. & Feb (see dates in the calendar at top of page)
Join the Student Learning Outcome and Assessment (SLOA) committee to learn how to design quality assignments, assessments and rubrics. This training will help prepare faculty for required assessments due by September 30, 2020 and will provide you with the prompts and tools needed to assess learning outcomes, including Critical Thinking.

Please come with your favorite assignment (assessed with scored evidence of the student’s critical thinking). If a written assignment, consider it be with minimum of three pages. If video assignment, it needs to provide enough information to assess critical thinking, or if a performance assignment, it has to elicit the student’s thinking in some way. 

 

 

Have you seen the new Faculty Dashboard?

Faculty Dashboard Training
Jan. 22
1:00-2:00pm
In summer 2020, the Data Science and Analytics team launched a Faculty Dashboard for faculty to see individualized data about the courses they teach and their current, future, and past students. Join our training session to learn about how to access the dashboard, navigate within it, and how to use the insights it contains.

 

Looking for ideas to engage students with online learning?

Tech Tip Tuesday
Jan. 19
12:00-1:00pm, virtual
Join Deidre Tyler, online teaching faculty, for tips on engaging students with online, broadcast, and face-to-face teaching.  Tech Tip Tuesday runs the first and third Thursday each month. Come get some great ideas!

 

Have you taken the “Creating a Faculty Professional Portfolio” online course?

Creating a Faculty Professional Portfolio Online course
This self-paced, three-hour Canvas course provides you with information, guidance, and instructions that will help you create an effective full-time faculty professional portfolio. Register in the SLCC Registration System under the department “ePortfolio.”

Professional Portfolio Consultations (after completing the above course)
Jan. 12      1:00-2:00pm
Jan. 15      2:00-3:00pm
Jan. 20      12:00-1:00pm
Jan 22       10:00-11:00am
All consultations are virtual
If you have taken the Creating a Faculty Portfolio course, join Emily Dibble from ePortfolio and Tiffany Rousculp from Writing Across the College for a consultation on your professional portfolio.  If you have not taken the course, do that first as it will answer many questions you may have.  Register for both the course and a consultation in the SLCC Registration System under the department “ePortfolio”.

 

Interested in other Online Faculty Development?

 

Service-Learning Professional Development course
Modules open Jan. 11- Apr. 1

Facilitator:  Lucy Smith (lucy.smith@slcc.edu)

Course topics include:

·      Service-Learning, High-Impact Practices, and Learning Outcomes Overview

·      Community Partnerships

·      Civic Literacy

·      Critical thinking, reflection, and civic responsibility

·      Assessment

Register in the SLCC Registration System under the department “Office of Learning Advancement.”

 A T E S E R V I C E I N T H E


Canvas User Credential course
Register anytime now-Apr. 6
Course opens Jan. 4, 2021
In this online, facilitated, self-paced course, you will learn to use the key features of Canvas. This 12-hour course is designed for all faculty, including full-time and adjunct instructors. The course is self-paced, so novice and experienced Canvas users can complete this course as quickly as possible. This course is facilitated by SLCC instructional technologists and instructional designers who are available to answer questions and provide feedback. Successful completion of this course satisfies the Canvas competency requirement for eLearning’s companion course, the Online Teacher Credential course. For more information about the Canvas User Credential visit https://tinyurl.com/slcc4cred

Register for this course in the SLCC Registration System under the dept. titled “eLearning”

Online Teacher Credential course
Register anytime now-Feb. 3 (or until course fills)
Course runs Feb. 8-Mar. 29, 2021
This course is a fully online, 6-week course. You will spend approximately 1-3 hours each week engaged in this course for a total of 16 hours. Adjunct instructors will be compensated for 16 hours.
This training is for all faculty who want to teach online at SLCC. Faculty should complete this training prior to teaching an online course. The course is taught in an online cohort so the participants can experience what it's like to be an online student and learn research-based best practices and expectations of being an online instructor at SLCC.

Register for this course in the SLCC Registration System under the dept. titled “eLearning”

 

Interested in working on your own writing project?
WAC Presenting & Publishing Your Work Series:  Submitting Queries
Jan. 27
12:00-1:00pm, virtual
This workshop provides an introduction to publishing (academic and trade), provides structure for your project, and helps you through the process with monthly sessions and writing time.

 

Looking for a low-cost teaching pedagogy conference?

Teaching for Learning (T4L) Conference
Sponsored by Intermountain Teaching & Learning Consortium
February 26
Call for Proposals due Dec. 18
More details to follow.

Conference Website
We are excited to announce the 5th annual Teaching for Learning (T4L) Conference co-hosted by Utah State University, Southern Utah University and Brigham Young University. This year's conference outlines the many factors that are distracting our students and offers both practical and theoretical approaches to overcoming those obstacles. During this one-day conference, participants will have the opportunity to make connections with other instructors, take home great ideas for teaching, and stay current on research in teaching and learning. Keynote speaker is James Lang, author of Small Teaching and his newest book, Distracted: Why Students Can’t Focus and What You Can Do About It (Basic Books, 2020)

 

Additional Resources:

 

ACUE: Inclusive Teaching Practices Toolkit

ACUE is excited to introduce a set of free resources — including videos and downloadable planning guides — that can be immediately put to use to benefit both faculty and their students. These practices are tailored for online teaching but are also relevant to the physical classroom.

https://acue.org/inclusive-teaching-practices-toolkit/

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