20 Minute Online Professional Development
The topic for the week of October 14th is What Culturally Responsive Teaching Techniques Can I Use to Improve Learning? 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/culturally-responsive-teaching-techniques-to-improve-learning-15130-1.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
- Faculty Conversations: Small Teaching Online. This fall, the CTLI will host informal faculty conversations around making small changes in your teaching practice that can increase student engagement and learning. The second meeting will be Thursday, October 17th from 2:30pm to 3:30pm in the Danvers CTLI Conference Room, DB301. Check your email as additional information about the October session was sent out on October 3rd.
- 43rd Forum on Tolerance: Online hate – How to see it and how to stop it. This year, the Forum on Tolerance will be Monday, October 21st and Thursday, October 24th. The October 21st event will take place in Danvers DS106B, from 11:00am to 1:00pm and the October 24th event will take place in the Lynn Gym from 9:00am to 2:00pm. More information is available at http://www.northshore.edu/tolerance/.
- QM Accessibility and Usability Resource Site. Quality Matters (QM) has recently opened up access to its Accessibility and Usability Resource Site (AURS) to the entire educational community. “AURS is the go-to — and FREE — resource for educators to get information on how to address key accessibility and usability concerns, including: Universal Design for Learning, Alternative Text, Video Captions and Audio Descriptions, Hyperlinks, Accessible MS Office products, Readability: Color Choice and Contrast, Readable PDFs, and Accessible Design in Learning Management Systems. This resource site was built by the QM community and provides helpful guidance to anyone interested in making online materials more accessible." If you do not already have a MyQM account, you can create one on the https://www.qmprogram.org/myqm/ login page. Once you have created your account and are in MyQM, you can go “Workshop - Register” in the side navigation and select "Register for Accessibility & Usability Resource Site”. More information is available at https://www.qualitymatters.org/qa-resources/resource-center/articles-resources/accessibility-resource-site.
- Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion in OER [CCCOER Webinar] on Wednesday, October 16, 2019 from 3:00pm-4:00pm. "The OER movement is deeply rooted in ensuring equitable access to information; but there is more we can do to help increase equity, diversity, and inclusion in our resources and practices. Join us for this webinar to learn about the ways in which colleges can consider issues of equity when designing and delivering OER courses and degree programs." RSVP at https://zoom.us/meeting/register/f6925f520b90866a34538d7d4481ef37.
Resources
- Culturally Responsive Teaching, https://www.brown.edu/academics/education-alliance/teaching-diverse-learners/strategies-0/culturally-responsive-teaching-0
- Culturally Responsive Teaching, https://www.uwlax.edu/catl/teaching-guides/instructors-guide-to-inclusive-excellence/critical-pedagogy-theory/culturally-responsive-teaching/
- Culturally Responsive Teaching in the Online Classroom, https://elearnmag.acm.org/archive.cfm?aid=3274756
- Diversity and Inclusion in OER, https://iastate.pressbooks.pub/oerstarterkit/chapter/diversity-inclusion/
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CTLI
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