20 Minute Online Professional Development
The Monday Morning Mentor series will be available over the spring semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of April 23rd is How Can I Move My Teaching Forward at Midcareer? The presentation is available Monday at 10:00am and is accessible through Sunday of that week. For information on accessing the presentation and supplemental materials, please view the Bulletin or the email version of iDevelop.
More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at https://www.magnapubs.com/online/mentor/how-can-i-move-my-teaching-forward-at-midcareer-14542-1.html. The complete spring schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2018/01/20-minute-mentor-online-faculty.html.
Looking for transcripts of past Monday Morning Mentor sessions? Please email ctli@northshore.edu with the session title and we can provide you with the transcript and supplementary materials.
Other Professional Development Opportunities
- North Shore Community College’s 2018 Visiting Writer. Novelist Louise Miller is a native New Englander, professional pastry chef, amateur flower gardener, old-time banjo player, obsessive moviegoer, and champion of old dogs. She will read from her debut novel, The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living, and her soon-to- be-published second book, The Late Bloomer’s Club. The readings will take place on Tuesday, April 24th, at 9:30am and 11:00am in the Danvers Campus library, 1 Ferncroft Road, and on Friday, April 27th at 9:30am and 11:00am in the President’s Board Room on the Lynn Campus, 300 Broad Street. More information is available at http://news.northshore.edu/blog/novelist-louise-miller-is-nsccs-2018-visiting-writer/.
- Annual Law Day Lecture. This year’s Law Day topic is Separation of Powers: Framework for Freedom. The keynote speaker is Lawrence Friedman, a professor of law at New England School of Law in Boston, MA. The lecture will be held on Thursday, April 26th from 7:30am to 9:00am in the Danvers Campus Math & Science Building, DS119 and will be teleconferenced to the Lynn Campus Gym. More information is available at http://news.northshore.edu/blog/nsccs-annual-law-day-lecture-separation-of-powers-framework-for-freedom/.
- Cars, culinary, and coding: Applied learning supported by Blackboard. This webinar, part of the BITS series, will take place on April 26, 2018 at 3:00pm EST. During this session, a panel of three instructors from Alfred State SUNY College of Technology will provide examples of different Blackboard Learn features - such as rubrics, wikis, grading, and online testing - to enhance and support their active learning classrooms. More information is available at https://community.blackboard.com/events/1900-bits-cars-culinary-and-coding-applied-learning-supported-by-blackboard.
- Mid-Career Faculty: How to Stay Engaged, Fulfilled, and Productive (Faculty Focus Special Report)
http://www.sjsu.edu/cfd/career-planning/mid-career/FF-Special-Report-2017-Mid-Career.pdf - Three Active Learning Strategies You Can Do in 10 Minutes or Less
https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/blended-flipped-learning/three-active-learning-strategies-you-can-do-in-10-minutes-or-less/
Please share your ideas, teaching strategies, and tips by emailing ctli@northshore.edu and we will share them in the next few issues of iDevelop. Also, please feel free to share any teaching resources or professional development opportunities that other NSCC faculty might be interested in.
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Thank you,
Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation
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