Faculty Professional Development in April and May

Join us for these exciting opportunities in April and May. Note specifically the free webinar called Leveraging the Neuroscience of Now: Toward Healing and Recovery on Friday! Details are below.

HCC Events

Faculty Academy II: Talking to Strangers by Malcolm Gladwell – April 1 and 16 @ 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. Free book to all participants. Enroll on TeachPoint.

Campus Book Club: The Tyranny of Merit by Michael J. Sandel – April 8 @ 3:00-4:30 pm. Read the book and join facilitator Cherie Rankin and employees from across the college for discussion. Enroll on TeachPoint.

Canvas Drop-In Sessions – Each Wednesday from 2:00-3:00 pm. Join Anna Catterson for Canvas questions at https://heartland.zoom.us/my/acatterson

Innovative Classrooms are coming to HCC! - All applications are due Friday, May 14. APPLY TODAY. More information:

• Watch Traci Van Prooyen describe the classrooms and how you can get involved.
• This infographic provides an overview of the classrooms and includes an embedded video tour. Ready to apply.
• Complete the application form.

Summer Certificates – June 1 – July 30. Both certificates should take approximately 16 contact hours or 0.5 ECH and require your Dean’s approval. Enroll on TeachPoint. 

• The Service Learning Certificate is a self-paced, fully online course that will provide details and information on topics related to Service Learning, allowing you opportunities to reflect and apply what you have learned through modification/creation of a “product” for use in your own class(es). Facilitated by Kim McHale. 
• The UDL Certificate is a self-paced and fully online course that provides you with explanation and practices related to Universal Design for Learning. This course will provide you the opportunity to reflect and apply what you have learned through a final curriculum “product” for use in your own courses (either modifying or creating something new). The course requires a final presentation with the Director of Online Learning and Instructional Technology and the course facilitator, Zach Petrea. The certificate should take approximately 16 contact hours and will provide compensation of 0.5 ECH. and require your Dean’s approval. Enroll on TeachPoint. Look for “Certificate: Universal Design for Learning” and click on the title.

 External Events

Leveraging the Neuroscience of Now: Toward Healing and Recovery – March 26 @ 2:00-3:30 pm CST. Join Mays Imad, Professor of Life and Physical Science and Coordinator of the Teaching and Learning Center at Pima Community College in Tucson at this free webinar for educator. She will discuss how we may leverage the neuroscience of now to move toward healing and recovery. Imad is a proponent of hope and science; this webinar is a follow-up to the webinar she hosted in April 2020. Register today since this is happening this week.

Breaking Down Barriers: Community , Culture, and Accessibility - each Friday in May. This Illinois Community Colleges Online conference is an opportunity to engage in best practices in moving your instruction and your campus to a more inclusive culture. Each Friday, you will have the opportunity to engage with expert presenters that highlight and celebrate being accessible, designing with educational technologies that work for everyone, working towards institutional compliance, and designing your course to have a focus on inclusive course design. Not only will you be engaged and hear from experts, you'll also hear from your peers and your students. Each Friday begins with a keynote presentation followed by the option of selecting one of three tracks during the Zoom session. Chose to attend a lightning round with four, 15-minute presentations, a panel presentation track, or hear more from the keynote presenter. Afterwards, engage with participants all month long in our back-channel chat. We hope you'll join us as we Break Down the Barriers and share stories and resources to help you and your campus on your accessibility journey. See the conference website for free registration and more information. 

FSI: At the Intersection of Teaching, Learning, and Technology – May 19 @ 9:00 am–1:00 pm. An annual conference that brings educators and instructional-technology professionals together each May at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, attendees come from across Illinois and as far away as Canada. This year’s virtual conference asks us, as we begin the long journey towards defining the new, post-pandemic normal in higher education, what have we learned? We believe this will be a time to come together to reflect on a year of profound change and cast a hopeful eye to teaching and learning in the next academic year. How do we take the best aspects of our shift to online learning and “reboot” students’ experiences when face-to-face instruction becomes an option again? Register for this affordable conference – only $15.

Compensation provided for all participating part-time faculty.

To enroll in HCC events, click on the event title on the “Available Events” tab in TeachPoint. Then click the blue “Enroll” link.