Pre-Conference Sessions 2008
Wednesday FULL-DAY 8:30 - 4:30 pm:
W1: POD Workshop for New Faculty Developers
- Todd Zakrajsek, Central Michigan University; Milton Cox, Miami University; Karron Lewis, University of Texas – Austin; James Eison, University of South Florida
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
- This session is designed to assist new faculty developers in gaining the skills necessary to be effective and to help them determine which activities will best serve their campuses. Experienced faculty developers from diverse institutions will address specific needs of the participants and offer "breakouts" to address a variety of issues. The goal for the day will be for participants to walk away with concrete ideas of ways to best move forward at their own institution.
- Fee: $195 (includes workshop fee, a copy of The Guide to Faculty Development, and lunch)
W2: NCSPOD Workshop for New Practitioners
- Valerie Grabove, Niagara College
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
- Designed to assist the new practitioner in understanding the field of staff, program, and organizational development, this workshop will assist the developer in the preliminary design of a successful program. The session will be responsive to the wants and needs identified by the registered participants, but potential topics include orientation programs, faculty development, staff development, leadership programs, needs assessment strategies, planning and budgeting to meet the needs of your college, and developing a strategic plan for an on-going program.
- Fee: $195 (includes workshop fee, print or CD copy of Launching Your Professional Development Program and resource binder, and lunch)
W3: Preparation & Content Knowledge for Graduate Students and Post-Docs
- Laura Border, University of Colorado, Boulder; Dieter Schönwetter, University of Manitoba; Elizabeth O'Connor Chandler, University of Chicago
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
- Grounding their presentation in theoretical frameworks, empirical research, and 50+ years experience, presenters from two countries discuss how beginning graduate student, TA, PFF, and postdoc developers can prepare for their jobs in teaching centers, graduate schools, or departments. Participants learn methods, skills, models, and tools to analyze, assess, and address key issues for TAs through postdocs; produce individual plans to create, improve or assess an aspect of a program designed to foster improved teaching or professional development for graduate students or postdoctoral fellows; and receive in-depth, individualized personal feedback on their plans. Participants receive a CD resource kit.
- Fee: $175 (includes workshop fee and lunch)
W4: Evaluating Professional Development Efforts
- Cindra Smith, retired Director of Education Services for the Community College League of California.
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
- Have you ever wondered:
- how to effectively assess your staff development program?
- how effective are the programs you offer?
- what are the best practices being used to evaluate programs?
- how to design effective evaluation instruments?
- This workshop will provide an intensive focus on how we can demonstrate the effectiveness and worth of our professional development efforts. Participants will learn about the critical levels of professional development evaluation and will have the opportunity to apply what they’ve learned by developing an assessment plan.
- Fee: $195 (includes workshop fee, a copy of Evaluating Staff and Organizational Development, and lunch)
W5: Using the Great Teachers Model for Faculty and Staff Development
- Mike McHargue, Foothill College
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 4:30 pm
- This workshop will celebrate who we are and what we do -- demonstrating again that the best professional development is "well-facilitated shoptalk." This very interactive session will begin with a substantial mixer to help us connect with conference colleagues. Following that, you will:
- (re-?) learn the "Great Seminar" model
- share good POD ideas and activities
- identify (and solve some) "challenges"
- meet several personal conference resources
- practice many activities and techniques you can use on your campus.
- Fee: $175 (includes workshop fee and lunch
Wednesday Morning 8:30 am - 12:00 pm
W6: Hidden Matters: Crossing Cultures on Campus
- Rosemarie Brefeld, Washington University
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 12 noon
- To promote cross-cultural learning in our classrooms, an instructor-made documentary will be shown of international undergraduate students relating their struggles and reactions to discussion-based classes. Documentary pre-viewing and post-viewing activities will allow participants an opportunity to: closely examine the cultural and linguistic challenges internationals face in discussion classes, learn about research which applies to those situations, and collaborate with colleagues to discuss how practices can be modified to more actively engage international students. Participants will leave the session with suggestions to reflect upon and explore for their own contexts.
- Fee: $80
W7: Developing and Administering Better Surveys
- Michele DiPietro, Carnegie Mellon
- Michael Bridges, Carnegie Mellon
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 12 noon
- High quality data, gathered from well-developed surveys, inform and enhance our patterns of practice. In an era of increasing accountability in which faculty developers are asked to document their effectiveness, surveys are a vital tool. In addition, data from surveys play an integral role in needs assessments, course assessments, and workshop, seminar and program evaluation instruments. However, the quantitative and methodological skills sets required for developing effective surveys is often not a part of the faculty developers toolbox. This hands-on workshop is designed to help faculty developers design and administer more effective surveys.
- Fee: $80
W8: Facilitator's Guide to Helping Others Build Hybrid Workshops
- Steven W. Gilbert, President, TLT Group, Inc.
- Bonnie Mullinix, Senior Consultant, Faculty and Educational Development, TLT Group, Inc.
- Sally Gilbert, Director of Administration, TLT Group, Inc.
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 12 noon
- This workshop is designed for faculty developers who want to help teams of faculty members and others to design and produce Brief Hybrid Workshops (BHWs), targeted, flexible teaching/learning tools which can be face-to-face, online, or both.
- A BHW, an activity of less than 15 minutes, includes the use of Internet-accessible media clips AND other activities, (such as Classroom Assessment Techniques) documents, guidelines, etc. along with Web-based tools, software and resource collections (Google docs, Lecshare Pro, Flickr, flip-video camcorders, YouTube, etc.) See: www.tltgroup.org/bhw.htm The Teaching, Learning, and Technology Group is a non-profit, founded in 1998.
- Participants are welcome to join the facilitators in leading subsequent workshops on developing educationally effective BHWs.
- Fee: $80
W9: Writing and Revising Your Philosophy of Faculty Development
- Neill Johnson, The Pennsylvania State University
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 12 noon
- How do faculty developers in higher education settings reflect on their own professional practices and communicate what they do and why to others in the profession and to the faculty and future faculty with whom they work every day? How is a faculty development philosophy different from a philosophy of teaching? Why would you want to make a distinction? What resources and activities are available for getting started or moving forward? Faculty developers at early, mid or late career are encouraged to attend, but they must be willing to reflect deeply on how their professional roles and personal aims intersect. Participants are encouraged to purchase Ray Land, Educational Development: Discourse, Identity and Practice (Maidenhead: Open University/McGraw-Hill, 2003) ISBN-13: 9780335213283
- Fee: $80
W10: Helping Students Learn in a Learner Centered Classroom
- Terry Doyle, Ferris State University
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 12 noon
- Change is often difficult. Faculty adopting a learner centered teaching (LCT) approach must realize this approach is a significant change for their students. Students come to college having experienced 12 or more years of teacher centered instruction. LCT looks little like what they know as school. Being asked to make learning choices, collaborate more, and put forth greater effort often cause students to resist LCT. This workshop will help faculty understand why students resist, how to develop clear rationales to overcome this resistance, and develop strategies for teaching the learning skills students need to succeed in a learner centered classroom.
- Fee: $80
W11: Faculty Careers for Women
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 12 noon
- This workshop invites participants to discuss a study read beforehand. It maps three stages of female faculty members’ careers and lives in academia: the early years of beginning female academics, the middle years, and the late-career stage involving experiences of older women. Based on qualitative and quantitative data, discussed are stories of diverse women, including those with non-traditional career paths, single women, immigrant scholars, parents, and members of the “sandwich-generation.” Participants will be encouraged to collectively grapple with the study’s recommendations for institutional change as well as share their own experiences and coping strategies.
- Participants are encouraged to read in advance: Philipsen, M. (2008). Challenges of the Faculty Career for Women: Success and Sacrifice. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.
- Fee: $80
W12: How's it Going? Reflecting on our Work
- James Groccia, Auburn University
- Kate Brinko, Appalachian State University
- Dee Fink, National Consultant in Higher Education
- and other consultants from a variety of institutions
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 12 noon
- "How's it Going?" offers early and mid-career faculty developers an opportunity to present their work, consult with veteran mentors, and develop networks to sustain the consultative processes initiated in this workshop. Participants present a selective portfolio of their center's work and target one issue for discussion. The wisdom that emerges from small group exchanges between early-career, mid-career, and veteran faculty developers is recorded so that participants acquire a set of evaluative questions and strategies to use reflectively as they pursue the vision of faculty development on campus. Portfolio guidelines will be distributed in advance.
- Fee:$80
W13:Everybody's Business: Disability as Diversity
- Kelly Roberts, University of Hawaii
- Robert Stodden, University of Hawaii
- Kathleen Kane, University of Hawaii
- Wednesday, October 22, 8:30 am – 12 noon
- Three-hour workshop for faculty developers and teaching faculty interested in expanding knowledge and skills for instructing students with disabilities. By completion of the workshop, participants will understand and demonstrate skills associated with:
- the legal requirements of postsecondary education institutions related to students with disabilities;
- the application of the principles of universal design for learning;
- practical means for making curricula materials accessible to students who use assistive technology;
- applying a range of accommodations for diverse learning needs;
- identifying environmental, structural, and disability related factors that impact student learning; and
- the application of practical and research-based strategies for teaching ALL students.
- Fee: $80
Wednesday Afternoon 1:00 pm - 4:30 pm
W14: Strategies for Weaving Together Full-time and Part-time Faculty
- Helen Burnstad, Johnson County Community College
- Joseph Gadberry, Johnson County Community College
- Wednesday, October 22, 1:00 – 4:30 pm
- Explore systems and strategies to ensure excellence in the use of part-time faculty in the classroom. Hiring practices, orientation, teacher preparation, integration, awards and recognition will be presented. Participants will develop an action plan for reviewing current systems and recommending strategies for integrating full and part-time faculty into one faculty.
- Fee: $80
W15: Faculty Development and Institutional Empowerment: A Special Session for Administrator
- Dee Fink, National Consultant in Higher Education
- Wednesday, October 22, 1:00 – 4:30 pm
- This session has two primary purposes. The first is to help administrators better understand the critical link between faculty development and institutional effectiveness. Faculty members constitute the "front line" for accomplishing the work of the institution, but they are poorly prepared for their two key tasks: creating the curriculum and teaching courses within that curriculum.
- The second purpose is to identify specific ways that administrators can support faculty development. How can administrators encourage all faculty to embrace the kind of learning that will be necessary to implement a high-quality, learning-centered educational program?
- Fee: $80
W16: Appreciative Inquiry as a Tool for Organizational Planning
- Charles Miller, Company of Experts
- Wednesday, October 22, 1:00 – 4:30 pm
- This workshop will provide participants an opportunity to explore a powerful and relatively new approach to Organization Development called Appreciative Inquiry (AI). AI has helped dozens of community colleges shift their organizational culture away from “old paradigm” problem-solving toward “new paradigm” possibilities. Participants will experience a mini-inquiry into exemplary leadership.
- Fee: $80
W17: Course Design for Deep Learning
- Barbara Millis, University of Texas, San Antonio
- Wednesday, October 22, 1:00 – 4:30 pm
- The research on the biological basis of learning and the related international research on deep, rather than surface, learning allows faculty to intentionally design courses that provide a structured sequence of learning activities aligned to goals and assessment and taking into account situational factors. A course, in other words, must be tightly woven. Participants will learn how to create a course challenging students to deeper thinking with a respect for diverse ways of learning. This interactive workshop will encourage participants to focus on a given course with opportunities for individual work and group activities.
- Fee: $80
W18: Turning Passive Listeners into Active Learners
- Sharon Bowman, Bowperson Publishing and Training
- Wednesday, October 22, 1:00 – 4:30 pm
- Join Sharon Bowman in this high-energy and interactive workshop as she shares tips and strategies for actively engaging learners. You will learn how to fine-tune your own information-giving skills and acquire helpful teaching tools you can share with faculty.
- Fee: $80
W19: Classroom Assessment and Feedback for Learning
- Thomas Angelo, La Trobe University
- Wednesday, October 22, 1:00 – 4:30 pm
- This highly interactive workshop is explicitly designed to benefit teachers and educational developers by providing practical techniques, research-based guidelines, vivid examples, resources and references–and by modeling effective teaching and professional development practice. Participants will learn what formative classroom assessment (CA) is, how it works, and how it can help learners and teachers become more reflective, self-directed and successful. They will practice 6-8 simple, adaptable CA techniques; consider practical, research-based guidelines for getting and giving feedback for learning; and receive materials and resources for follow-up. Participants will identify 2-3 possible applications to weave into their teaching and/or development practice.
- Fee: $80
W20: 360 Degree Gravitational Leadership,
- Lee Riddell, Institute for Community College Development, Cornell University
- Wednesday, October 22, 1:00 – 4:30 pm
- The Community College Leadership 360 Degree Assessment incorporates the eight key leadership competencies for community college leaders developed through research conducted by the American Association of Community Colleges. The Assessment can serve as the basis and catalyst for your personal or your institution’s leadership program. The Assessment assists in creating individual action steps to build on identified strengths and to develop new leadership competencies. Through this workshop you will learn about options for personal, organizational and professional developer leadership assessment as well as follow up programs and resources.
- Fee: $80
W21: Best Practices in Faculty Evaluation
- Ronald A. Berk, The Johns Hopkins University
- Wednesday, October 22, 1:00 – 4:30 pm
- Beyond student ratings, what data do you use to improve the quality of your own teaching? What does your department chair use to evaluate your teaching? What evaluation model are you using for accreditation? This session will be a state-of-the-art, critical review of the research evidence and practical experience (including the participants') with 14 strategies reported in the faculty evaluation literature. Participants will create their own combination of “best sources” and models for formative and summative decisions. They will receive detailed materials and a proven method for evaluation. Finally, they will leave turbo-charged to improve the faculty evaluation procedures on their campuses. This pre-conference session will include a fee for the text, R. Berk (2006) Thirteen Strategies to Measure College Teaching. Sterling, VA: Stylus.
- Fee: $100
W22: Self-Care as Student Care
(We apologize, this session has been cancelled)
- Kimberlee Bonura, US Military Academy
- Wednesday, October 22, 1:00 – 4:30 pm
- As faculty, we influence our students not just in content areas, but also in their lifestyles and choices. For instance, Wankat (2002) indicates that faculty should help students become more effective and efficient and McKeachie and Svinicki (2006) report that faculty members serve as role models for self-regulation. However, faculty members may not implement these same skills for managing their own well-being. The session will address mind-body strategies for managing work-related stress for faculty members, including relaxation techniques, cognitive strategies, and behavioral approaches, through activity and discussion. Participants will be encouraged to view self-care as critical to career development.
- Fee: $80
W23: Starting Out in Leadership Development
- Deborah DeZure, Michigan State University
- Allyn Shaw, Michigan State University
- Wednesday, October 22, 1:00 – 4:30 pm
- Increasingly faculty developers are asked to provide leadership development for academic administrators and faculty. While faculty development theory, research and practice provide a strong base from which to move into leadership development, there are new challenges. This session is designed to assist faculty developers to design, implement, and assess high quality programs of leadership development for their institutions. Drawing on theory and research on leadership and leadership development from higher education and corporate contexts, this program will identify key strategic decisions, program models, and resources to enable participants to match their institutional cultures and needs with productive leadership development practices.
- Fee: $80
