20 Minute Mentor - Online Faculty Professional Development - Spring 2021 Schedule

The Center for Teaching, Learning, and Innovation (CTLI) offers faculty a professional development series from Magna Publications, called the 20 Minute Mentor. The goal of the 20 Minute Mentor series is to offer faculty practical professional development opportunities in twenty minute snippets that can be accessed from anywhere and at any time during the given week. Session topics cover the areas of student engagement, teaching and learning, teaching online, assessment and learning goals, and classroom management.

Information on how to access the 20 Minute Mentor sessions is available each week in the Bulletin and the iDevelop e-newsletter.

New video presentations (with supplementary materials) go live at 10:00am each Monday morning and are only accessible through Sunday. 

The following sessions are on the schedule for spring 2021. For session descriptions, objectives, and mentor bios, click on the titles below. 

• January 25 - How Can I Make My Video Lectures Effective and Engaging?
• February 1 - How Can You Help Online Students Be More Successful In Your Course?
• February 8 - How Do I Create Questions that Stimulate Engaging Conversations in Online Discussion Boards?
• February 15 - How Can I Maximize the First 10 Minutes of Remote Teaching To Spark Student Engagement?
• February 22 - How Can I Optimize Announcements to Help Online Students Navigate My Class?
• March 1 - How Can I Guide Online Learning by Engaging with Students?
• March 8 - What Are 9 Practical Steps to Implement Mastery Learning?
• March 15 - How Can Effective Note-taking Improve Online Student Learning?
• March 22 - How Can Educational Programs Use Backwards Design to Drive Learning and Student Success?
• March 29 - How Can a Teaching Calendar Help Me Be More Effective and Efficient in the Online Classroom?
• April 5 - How Can I Gauge Online Learning Through Engaging Activities and Assignments?
• April 12 - What Are 5 Easy-to-use Technologies That Have a Big Impact on Learning in the Online Classroom?
• April 19 - How Can I Extend My Research to the Public With a Podcast?
• April 26 - How Can Faculty Advocates Promote Online Education on Campus?
• May 3 - What Is the Best Citizenship Advice I Ever Received?
• May 10 - What Is the Best Leadership Advice I Ever Received?

We would love to hear your feedback on the usefulness of these sessions. Please send your input to ctli@northshore.edu.

iDevelop – NSCC’s Faculty Professional Development eNewsletter (11/16/2020)

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 16th is What are 3 Keys to Teaching Intercultural Competence? 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/what-are-3-keys-to-teaching-intercultural-competence/. 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.

Interesting Resources

• Intercultural Knowledge and Competence VALUE Rubric (AAC&U), https://www.aacu.org/value/rubrics/intercultural-knowledge
• Intercultural Competence Toolkit (University of Washington Bothell), https://www.uwb.edu/globalinitiatives/resources/intercultural-competence-tool-kit
• Intercultural Competence (Boston College), https://cteresources.bc.edu/documentation/intercultural-competence/

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