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 fall semester to bring you professional development in twenty minute snippets. The topic for the week of April 4th is How Can I Use Microactivities to Engage Students and Improve Learning and Retention? 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-can-i-use-microactivities-to-engage-students-and-improve-learning-and-retention/. The complete spring schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2022/01/20-minute-mentor-online-faculty.html.
More information about this session (including description, topics, and learning goals) is available at https://www.magnapubs.com/product/program/how-can-i-use-microactivities-to-engage-students-and-improve-learning-and-retention/. The complete spring schedule of Monday Morning Mentor sessions is available at http://nscclets.blogspot.com/2022/01/20-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
- Unity in Diversity Days (Merrimack College). "Unity in Diversity Days, a two-day program, is now in its fourth semester and is sponsored by the President’s Initiative on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). The program features a diverse group of scholars, artists and advocates, designed to broaden and deepen our understanding of systemic inequalities with a focus on current issues. Some of the topics we highlight this semester include diversity in education, restorative justice, the role of art in transforming communities, health disparities, and the future of gender inclusivity. Additionally, speakers will share knowledge and strategies, designed to enhance our awareness and ability to overcome inequities on campus and in the workplace by taking care of ourselves." NSCC faculty and staff are invited to attend any of the presentations during our Spring 2022 Unity in Diversity Days program, scheduled for Tuesday, April 5 and Wednesday, April 6. All sessions are free and open to the public but require pre-registration. More information is available at https://www.merrimack.edu/diversity-equity-and-inclusion/programs/unity-in-diversity-days/unity-in-diversity-spring-2022-event/.
- The Experiences of Women in The Soviet Union During World War II. Registration is open for our event on women's experiences in the Soviet Union during World War II, co-sponsored by North Shore Community College and Harvard University's Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies. The webinar will be held Thursday, April 14th from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. To pre-register, please visit our website, https://www.northshore.edu/events/soviet-women.html, and scroll down until you see the blue Register button. Click on that button to enter your information. If you have questions, please reach out to Kara Kaufman at kkaufman@northshore.edu or Lawrence Davis at ldavis@northshore.edu.
- 2022 NSCC Visiting Writer Event. Visiting Writer and Professor Emeritus Carl Carlsen will read from his new book Brickyard Stories 2.0: A Lynn MA Neighborhood Before and After Urban Renewal, an oral history full of storytelling, poetry, prose, and photographs. This event will take place on Zoom on Tuesday, April 26 from 9:30 to 10:45 am and Wednesday, April 27 from 9:30 to 10:45 am. Please see https://www.northshore.edu/faculty-staff/bulletin/03-14-22.html#writer for more information and Zoom meeting links.
- Digital Teaching Symposium 2022. Blackboard is sponsoring this free virtual event focusing on sharing best practices in digital teaching on Thursday, April 21. More information as well as the registration link is available at https://go.blackboard.com/digital-teaching-symposium.
- 2022 Northeast OER Summit. Registration is now open for the 5th Annual Northeast OER Summit. The Summit is virtual and will take place May 26 and May 27. Registration for the Summit is free until April 8th so register now if you are interested at https://umass.irisregistration.com/Site/OER.
- REMOTE: The Connected Faculty Summit – Maximizing Success for Learners. “REMOTE is a free virtual event hosted by Arizona State University where frontline faculty and decision makers from global universities and colleges share highly relevant strategies and interventions for all learning modalities - classroom, blended/hybrid, and online. REMOTE helps to design and deliver the best possible experiences and outcomes for teachers and learners - from learner variability, adaptive learning, to effective use of tools and equitable use of digital learning.” (Summit description) The Summit will take place June 8 and June 9. More information and registration link available at https://www.theremotesummit.org/. For a preview of what REMOTE covers, last year’s sessions are available on ASU TEACH ONLINE at https://teachonline.asu.edu/remote-conference-2021/.
Upcoming Webinars of Interest
- Career and College Promise: Helping Students Be All They Can Be! (NISOD webinar) on Monday, April 4 from 2:00pm-3:00pm. “This webinar describes the Career and College Promise (CCP) Team and its impact on student success. By offering support before, during, and after enrollment, the CCP team holistically serves each student and develops a symbiotic relationship with local high schools. Nash Community College doubled the number of courses being taken by our CCP population from Spring 2020 to Spring 2021, and our statistics with student success remained stable. This webinar provides best practices for supporting students and partnering with high school and college personnel. Participants learn easy-to-implement strategies that increase enrollment and student retention.” (webinar description) The webinar is free to NISOD members. More information and the link to register is available at https://www.nisod.org/forms/webinar-series/register.php?id=453&code=57kL4QDy2xOcjbiqt61gCB4b909vy2FynMo4WovP.
- Sustainable OER Course Design (CCCOER Webinar) on Wednesday, April 13 at 3:00 pm. “Building courses on OER is a great way to provide students with access to learning materials while providing for increased customizability on the part of the instructor. But how can courses be designed to facilitate future reuse and adaptation? This webinar will feature a variety of speakers offering their experienced-based perspectives on designing OER with sustainability in mind, including strategies for ongoing maintenance and content portability.” (webinar description) More information and registration link is available at https://www.cccoer.org/webinar/sustainable-oer-course-design/.
Assessment Fellow Open Office Hours
This semester, the Faculty Assessment Fellows will be holding Monthly Open Office Hours to provide peer-to-peer assessment support, tips, and resources. The next session will be an opportunity to discuss and brainstorm Curriculum Mapping strategies with faculty colleagues from across the college! Join Assessment Fellow Luciano Sappia at this next session of open office hours! Drop in for a lunch time Zoom chat from 12:30 to 1:30 pm on Wednesday, April 13. Please use the following Zoom meeting link, https://northshore-edu.zoom.us/j/92185571848?pwd=MEFzQ1ZieWdqNGdveDJSSGcwNk9XZz09.
CTLI Coffee and Conversations Series
Over the spring semester, the CTLI will be hosting a series of informational sessions on a variety of teaching, learning, and assessment topics. The Coffee and Conversations sessions will be held virtually twice a month on Fridays from 9:30am to 10:30am. Please join us with your favorite cup of coffee or tea and we will bring the topics to hopefully spur plenty of conversations.
Our next session will take place on Friday, April 15th and the topic will be "Demystifying Curriculum Committee Forms and Writing Strong Student Learning Outcomes''. The session will be facilitated by Lori Azzara and is designed to work with faculty who want assistance in understanding how to successfully complete the various Curriculum Committee Forms. Additionally, Lori will assist faculty with the development of SLOs for individual courses or programs. The session is designed to answer questions and provide detailed assistance to participants rather than simply providing information - in other words, it's "user friendly."
Please use the following Zoom meeting link for all Coffee and Conversations sessions:
Future Coffee and Conversations sessions will be held on the following Fridays (listed below) so please save the dates in your calendar:
- April 29
- May 6
Topics have been scheduled for a few of these sessions but we would love your feedback on some topics for the other sessions. Please share any ideas around what you might like to learn more about at https://forms.gle/yGifSTLdZmmyp75p7.
We hope to see you at one of the sessions!
Interesting Articles and Resources
- Authentic Assessment Strategies: Assessing Learning that Empowers Your Students (Faculty Focus Live podcast) “How do you know that student learning is actually happening? Usually through assessment, right? But how can you assess students without just a quiz or paper? How can you empower them and motivate them to learn, and want to learn, so that assessment becomes something that is both powerful for you as an instructor and to the student as a learner? In today’s episode, we’ll talk about authentic assignments and authentic assessment, specific active learning assessment strategies that you can use in your class, and how to use Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to help mold your assessments.”, https://www.facultyfocus.com/faculty-focus-live-podcast/
- Using Courage, Compassion, and Connection to Combat Disconnection, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/effective-teaching-strategies/using-courage-compassion-and-connection-to-combat-disconnection/
- Building a Social and Emotional Learning Community for Our Students, https://www.facultyfocus.com/articles/equality-inclusion-and-diversity/building-a-social-and-emotional-learning-community-for-our-students/
- How to Give Your Students Better Feedback With Technology: Advice Guide, https://www.chronicle.com/article/how-to-give-your-students-better-feedback-with-technology/
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
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
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