Spring 2021 Professional Development for Faculty

 

Join us for these new professional development opportunities in Spring 2021. All the details are available on TeachPoint, but here are some highlights:

Online Certificates: February 1-April 30, 2021. Contact your dean for approval to join:

• Assessment. Facilitated by Anna Catterson.
• Open Educational Resources. Facilitated by Rachelle Stivers.

 

Campus Book Club: Join your colleagues from across campus for a virtual book club.

• The World's Religions - Tuesday, February 2 @ 3:00-4:30 pm. Facilitated by Susan Baller-Shepard.
• Stamped - Wednesday, March 3 @ 11:30 am-1:00 pm. Facilitated by Jennifer Woodruff.
• The Tyranny of Merit - Thursday, April 8 @ 3:00-4:30 pm. Facilitated by Cherie Rankin.  

Faculty Academy I: Teaching and Learning at HCC - January 25-February 14, 2021. 

Online with one synchronous session on February 4 @ 5:30-8:30 pm. Orientation for new HCC faculty, both full- and part-time. Contact your Dean for approval.  

Faculty Academy II: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell - April 1 and 15 @ 3:30-5:00 pm. We will discuss the effects of Gladwell’s topics on our interactions with students: how encounters with strangers go wrong, how we default to the truth when lies are too hard to face, how behaviors are tightly linked to location and time, and how we do not understand the context in which people are operating. Facilitated by Cristina Prestin-Beard. 

Essential Competency Rubric Workshops will continue, sponsored by the Assessment Committee. Dates and times available here. 

PERT Mid-Year Tenure Training - Friday, February 26, 2021 @ 10:00-11:30 am. Contact Daryl Menke or Lauren Denofrio-Corrales.   

LinkedIn Learning Course Club, Growth Mindset – Thursday, February 25, 2021 @ 3:00-4:00 pm. Join this discussion of a TBD LinkedIn Learning training video. The facilitator is still undetermined, so contact Stephanie Kratz if you would like to volunteer. 

Adjunct faculty will be compensated for participation in all events. To learn more and to enroll for any of these events, visit TeachPoint at teachpoint.heartland.edu. For assistance with TeachPoint, contact Stephanie Kratz or view a tutorial video.