iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (10/21/2019)

Welcome to iDevelop, a weekly eNewsletter providing faculty with information about professional development opportunities at NSCC. The intent of this eNewsletter is to spotlight the various professional development events for faculty in one convenient location as well as share best practices, resources and tips related to the teaching practice. iDevelop is being brought to you by the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI).
  

20 Minute Online Professional Development
The topic for the week of October 21st is How Can I Create a Platform for Difficult Conversations in the Online Classroom? 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/create-a-platform-for-difficult-conversations-in-the-online-classroom-15162-1.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 third meeting will be Thursday, November 14th from 2:30pm to 3:30pm. Please save the date in your calendar. An email with additional information about the November session will be sent out in early November.
• 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/.
    

Resources

• Managing Difficult Classroom Discussions, https://citl.indiana.edu/teaching-resources/diversity-inclusion/managing-difficult-classroom-discussions/
• Difficult Dialogues, https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/guides-sub-pages/difficult-dialogues/  
       

Share Your Teaching Resources and Professional Development Opportunities If you have any teaching resources that you would like to share with other NSCC faculty or know of any other professional development opportunities that NSCC faculty might be interested in, please feel free to send them to ctli@northshore.edu and we will share them in the upcoming issues of iDevelop.

We hope you have enjoyed this weekly eNewsletter and would love your input. Please let us know if you have any feedback on the format, content, and resources or if there is anything else you would like to see in the eNewsletter.

Thank you,
CTLI