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 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 November 2nd is How Do I Build Trust with a Personal Users' Guide? 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/product/program/how-do-i-build-trust-with-a-personal-users-guide/. The complete fall 2020 schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2020/09/20-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
- Upcoming CTLI Virtual Workshops. Over the next few months, the Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation will be hosting a series of virtual workshops around online and hybrid design and teaching best practices as well as the features of Blackboard Learn, Blackboard Collaborate Ultra, and Zoom. The complete schedule of virtual workshop sessions (with descriptions) as well as RSVP information is available at https://forms.gle/VF3fRNjR6wVkaGQk8. If interested in attending a virtual workshop, please make sure to RSVP. A virtual workshop will be cancelled if less than five people sign up for it.
- Our Students at Risk: The Basic Needs Security Landscape. The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted growing inequities within public higher education and an urgent need to address basic needs security among students. Simply put, students at risk of losing their housing or unable to feed themselves are far less likely to remain enrolled in college. The Massachusetts Department of Higher Education, in partnership with other state agencies and a dozen public institutions, has begun to address these issues with a series of pilot programs specifically aimed at reducing student housing insecurity and homelessness. This year we are expanding our work, using lessons learned through the pilots to develop a state-level strategic plan for addressing a broader spectrum of basic needs - including housing, food, technology, child care and mental health care. Faculty play an essential role in identifying and responding to students who may benefit from services and/or interventions. To support the ongoing work of your faculty with students, the DHE plans a series of 1-hour Zoom webinars for faculty this year. The information for the first webinar is below:
Our Students at Risk: The Basic Needs Security Landscape - A Data-Informed Discussion with Faculty
Tuesday, November 17 from 2:00pm to 3:00pm
Guest Presentation by Christine Baker-Smith, Executive Director, Hope Center for College, Community & Justice, Temple University
Christine Baker-Smith is the Executive Director of the Hope Center for College, Community, and Justice. Before joining the Hope Center, she was a lecturer in Research Methodology for the Quantitative Methods in the Social Sciences M.A. program at Columbia University and an Education Policy Analyst for the NYC Independent Budget Office. A sociologist of education, Christine’s training is in mixed-methods research and causal inference with a focus on student social and academic engagement across schooling transitions. She holds a Ph.D. from New York University in Sociology of Education, an EdM in Leadership, Policy, and Politics from Teachers College, Columbia University, an MA in Social Sciences of Education from Stanford University, and a BA in Sociology from Whitman College.
Please contact the CTLI for the Zoom meeting information.
Interesting Resources
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
- Teaching after an Election, http://cteresources.bc.edu/documentation/teaching-after-an-election/
- Creating Magic in Your (Online) Classroom, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/online-education/creating-magic-in-your-online-classroom/
- 8 Ways to Improve Group Work Online, https://www.insidehighered.com/advice/2020/10/28/advice-how-successfully-guide-students-group-work-online-opinion
- Online Community Building Activities (Equity Unbound and OneHE), https://oneheglobal.org/equity-unbound/
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
