Pedagogy 101
Monday, March 2, 2:00 to 4:00 PM, CC2153
Facilitator Jane Lister-Reis
Offered through the college’s Teaching and Learning Center, Pedagogy 101/102 are two year-long, monthly professional development experiences open to all faculty, but are especially designed with new faculty (both full- and part-time) in mind.
The 2008-09 program includes two distinct areas of focus:
Pedagogy 101:The Creation of a Community of Learners (*The Courage to Teach, Parker Palmer)
Pedagogy 102:Teaching, Learning and Assessment Best Practices (*What the Best College Teachers Do, Ken Bain)
In Pedagogy 101, faculty used discussion materials, a common text and reflective practices to build their own learning community as a safe and supportive environment through which to explore and share their own teaching and learning practices (and to be able to apply these same principles, practices and values in their classroom).
In Pedagogy 102, faculty will learn instructional design skills in order to ensure their courses have robust learning outcomes, clear concepts and skills, and effective assessment tools. At the end of the academic year, faculty will be asked to share their learning project/s with the larger academic community.
Note: You can choose to sign up for both Pedagogy 101 and 102, or just one. When you register, please plan to commit to the entire year’s program.
Facilitator Jane Lister-Reis. For more information please email her at jreis@sccd.ctc.edu or phone the TLC at 206-527-3776.
Armed Intruder: When Lightning Strikes
Tuesday, March 3, 8:00 to 9:00 AM, TLC LB 3231C
Wednesday, March 4, 1:00 to 2:00 PM, TLC LB3231C
Facilitator Jeff Caldwell, NSCC Safety & Security Manager
Please note: the same session is offered at two different times
Would you know what to do if our campus was suddenly threatened by a disturbed person brandishing a gun? Have you ever thought about what is the best response to a threat of this nature? This workshop will present an informational video developed in response to deadly on-campus shooter incidents that occurred in Columbine, Colorado several years ago and more recently at Virginia Tech last year. After the video, NSCC Security Chief Jeff Caldwell will lead a discussion about North's workplace violence prevention policy and our own campus threat assessment team.
Repeats Wednesday March 4 at 1:00 PM.
International Students & Cultural Differences: What To Do When You’re from Saturn and the Other Is from Neptune
Tuesday, March 3, 3:00 to 4:00 PM, CC2153
Thursday, March 5, 8:00 to 9:00 AM, CC2153
Facilitator Mari Acob-Nash, NSCC Director of International Student Programs
Please note: the same session is offered at two different times
Increasingly, our campus is becoming a global community. The number of international students at NSCC has grown from 258 in fall 2005 to 583 in fall 2008. Establishing understanding and interacting in positive ways across cultural differences can present challenges—some slight and some significant. This session begins a two-quarter series of four workshops. Each workshop will be divided into two parts. The first half of each session will present a general principle (GP) for dealing constructively with cultural differences. The second half of each session will focus on cultural characteristics of a specific group of international students. Each session will be presented twice to accommodate varying work schedules.
This session will focus on Vietnamese International Students
Verbal Encounter Tactics; Dealing with Difficult People and Difficult Situations
Wednesday, March 4, 8:00 to 9:30 AM, CC3460
Wednesday, March 4, 3:00 to 4:30 PM, CC3460
Facilitator Jeff Caldwell, NSCC Safety & Security Manager
Please note: the same session is offered at two different times
Learn simple and effective techniques to better communicate in pressured situations such as when dealing with dissatisfied/upset/demanding “customers”—whether students, the general public, a work colleague, etc. The techniques aim to reduce stress, increase voluntary compliance with policies and procedures, decrease complaints and increase professionalism. Currently Director of Safety and Security at the college, Jeff is a retired Seattle Police Officer and has been a communications consultant to major hotels, casinos, hospitals, shopping centers and community colleges throughout Washington State for over 15 years.
Angel: Next Steps (Cohort 1)
Wednesday, March 4, 2:00 to 4:00 PM, TLC LB 3231C
Instructor Tom Braziunas
Dear Colleagues, This workshop is full. No walk-ins can be added. These ANGEL workshops will be offered multiple times and multiple days in Spring Quarter.
For information or to sign up for a future workshop, please contact Tom Brazunias at tbraziun@sccd.ctc.edu.
For the past 10 years, this college has used WebCT and FirstClass as two alternative “learning management systems” (LMS) to successfully provide online discussion rooms, grade books, lessons, activities and/or testing to students in campus classes, blended (hybrid) classes and virtual classrooms. The popularity of these beneficial online enhancements for students and faculty has led us to essentially outgrow our current arrangement.
In order to expand capacity, we have begun to switch to another learning management system. We have been impressed with ANGEL (“A New Generation of E-Learning”) which is a robust, acclaimed and tried-and-true LMS chosen by the State Board to replace Blackboard for all the state’s Washington Online classes. Faculty, staff and admin representatives from every community college participated in a two-year rigorous review process to choose the LMS that best fit with our (and our students’) specific needs. Many of these colleges are also switching to ANGEL.
At North, we will continue to use WebCT through Fall 2009 and FirstClass through Summer 2009 after which our licensing contracts end. We have a license to use ANGEL and so we are starting to provide TLC workshops in ANGEL in a couple weeks and many times in following quarters (including summer). Please consider attending now or later! We will be using ANGEL exclusively starting Winter 2010.
Angel: Next Steps (Cohort 3)
Friday, March 6, 12:00 to 2:00 PM, TLC LB 3231C
Instructor Tom Braziunas
Dear Colleagues, This workshop is full. No walk-ins can be added. These ANGEL workshops will be offered multiple times and multiple days in Spring Quarter.
For information or to sign up for a future workshop, please contact Tom Brazunias at tbraziun@sccd.ctc.edu.
See Angel: Next Steps (Cohort 1) on March 4 above for workshop description.
NetID Applications for Instructors and Students
Friday, March 6, 2:00 to 3:30 PM, TLC LB 3231C
Presenter Brian Holt
Are you wondering how to utilize in your teaching the NetID Applications (sometimes referred to as Google Docs) now available to the campus through NetID? This helpful workshop, presented by NSCC Psychology instructor, Brian Holt, will introduce the mechanics of logging into and using the share/collaboration features that come with this handy technology. There will be a brief overview of the several features that come with the NetID Applications, including Calendar, Mail, Documents, Spreadsheets, and Presentations, with some discussion on how they can be used in your courses. By the end of this workshop, you will be able to login to NetID Apps, create a document, organize it in your NetID apps "File Manager" using labels and folders, share this document with your classmates and instructor, be able to make collaborative changes to your classmate's docs and see who made the changes to yours, and finally how to revert to previous revisions. If there's time, he will also talk about how to construct and deploy questionnaires and tabulate results using NetID spreadsheets.
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