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Weeks of October 11-22

This week’s spotlight:

NC Student Success Center

The NC SSC offers a variety of free online professional development opportunities for faculty and staff.

Learning Online Courses The NC Student Success Center offers ten learning online courses that were created by North Carolina Community College faculty members from across the state. Each asynchronous course consists of four to six modules. Each module can be completed in 30 to 45 minutes.
Step Ahead is a series of close to 20 professional development courses related to teaching and learning. Each course is a deep dive into a specific topic, and each will take several weeks to complete. The first batch of courses will be available in spring 2021. Additional courses will be rolled out over time.
The NC SSC offers a variety of workshops that help faculty improve their practice.
The NC SSC also is offering cohorts of faculty the opportunity to participate in an Association of College and University Educators (ACUE) micro-credential course. Two cohorts began in July 2020 with more to follow fall 2020. The first micro-credential is “Creating an Inclusive and Supportive Online Learning Environment.”

https://ncssc.org/faculty-teaching-and-learning/

Who you "otter" know!

Way to go Carrie!

Carrie Russell

Instructor

Academic and Career Readiness

Carrie Russell, an instructor in Academic and Career Readiness at Alamance Community College, is among five candidates statewide selected by the U.S. Department of Education to receive training as Teaching Skills That Matter (TSTM) educators.

The Office of Career, Technical and Adult Education (OCTAE) recently designated North Carolina as a Teaching Skills That Matter (TSTM) state. ACC’s Carrie Russell, along with four other North Carolina instructors, will matriculate through TSTM’s Cohort 4 during program year 2021-2022.

Russell and her four fellow educators will participate in the TSTM training from October 2021 through April 2022. Upon completion of the training, the five participating instructors will be considered “Train-the-Trainers” and will duplicate the TSTM training and present it for instructors throughout North Carolina during program year 2022-2023.

Russell was named 2021 Workforce Development Instructor of the Year by Alamance Community College last spring. As the College’s High School Equivalency Online instructor in the Academic and Career Readiness (ACR) department, she also serves as the professional development facilitator for the ACR program. Russell has a Bachelor of Science degree from Wingate University in Elementary Education and a Masters in Library and Information Studies from UNCG. She taught second grade and was a media specialist in the Alamance-Burlington School System before becoming a full-time mom. Carrie began teaching in the Academic and Career Readiness program in 2011.

“Education has always been an important part of my life. I was ‘that’ kid who loved school, I never grew tired of learning,” said Russell. “It is an honor to have been chosen to participate in the Teaching Skills That Matter Cohort. What better thing than to learn how to target the skills that matter for our adult learners and then share those with other educators. I never want to forget what it feels like to be a student, and can’t wait to represent ACC in the TSTM Cohort.”

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Upcoming Trainings at ACC

Advising Trainings

October 11 at 10:00 AM in Zoom - Facilitator: Rose Webster

Advising Students on Probation

https://zoom.us/j/94483392277?pwd=akMwODVubUVRSFBwVkxOeXpFZWJoZz09

October 11 at 4:00 PM in Zoom - Facilitator: Rose Webster

Advising Students on Probation

https://zoom.us/j/94483392277?pwd=akMwODVubUVRSFBwVkxOeXpFZWJoZz09

Aviso Trainings

10/11 11:00 am New User

10/12 2:00 pm Tasks and Action Plans

4:00 pm Adjuncts only

10/13 10:00 am Notes and Alerts

10/14 9:00 am Filtering 101

10/15 3:00 pm New User Training

10/18 10:00 am New User Training

10/19 4:00 pm Notes and Alerts

10/21 11:00 am New User

3:00 pm Tasks and Action Plans

10/22 10:00 am Filtering 101

2:00 pm Adjuncts Only

To register for any of these trainings:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSe6uKUckdszxRtana2xlxeDCUdAhicOlGtHMyWNXp9ViJOcgg/viewform

Distance Learning Trainings

October 12 at 2:00 PM in Zoom - Facilitator: Mercer Bufter

Assessments in Online Courses - This workshop will explore best practices from assessing student learning in an online environment and demonstrate tools and strategies for assessments in online courses.

Link to session - https://zoom.us/j/92264930187

October 22 at 10:00 AM in Zoom - Facilitator: Jennifer Jones

Mediasite for Instructors - Mediasite is a video creation and storage solution in Moodle and Zoom. This workshop will provide an overview of using Mediasite to create and share videos in your online course, as well as using Mediasite's assessment tools.

Link to session - https://zoom.us/j/92264930187

PD Opportunities Outside ACC

DEI-Growth, Understanding, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (G.U.I.D.E.) Conference

Who: Rowan Cabarrus Community College

What: DEI-G.U.I.D.E. Conference

The Diversity and Inclusion Committee at Rowan-Cabarrus Community College wants to invite you to attend our second annual virtual Growth, Understanding, Inclusion, Diversity, and Equity (G.U.I.D.E.) conference this fall. The G.U.I.D.E Conference is FREE.

The conference aims to advance Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (D.E.I.) Issues in Higher Ed, K-12 schools, communities, and workplace industries by building community and competency among all levels of employees and will cover the D.E.I. subjects such as:

Implicit Bias
Norms/Discomfort in D.E.I. Conversations
Strategies and Potential Trends with African American Males in Higher Ed
Breaking Down Present-day Barriers
Gender Identity
Equity and Engagement
B.G.T.Q.I.A. and more

When: Thursday, November 18, 2021, 9am–4 pm, and Friday, November 19, 2021, 9am–1pm.

Where: Click this link to register

Questions: Rowan Cabarrus Community College Diversity & Inclusion Committee (diversity&inclusion@rccc.edu)

NC3ADL FALL 2021 CONFERENCE

The NC Community College Association of Distance Learning advocates and provides resources to support distance learning in the NC Community College System. NC3ADL's fall virtual conference on October 19-20, 2021 is free to all NC3ADL members. Click on the NC3ADL link below to visit the website and register for the conference.

Click Here To Register

Conference Agenda

Teaching, Leadership and Learning Tips

Tips for Being a good advisor

Does not make decisions for students, but helps students make their own decisions.

Attempts to understand students’ concerns from a student point of view, and focuses on advisees’ strengths and potentials rather than limitations.

Tries to determine the reasons for poor academic performance and directs advisees to appropriate support services.

For more tips, visit:

https://www.shepherd.edu/characteristics-of-a-good-advisor/

For information about the Center for Teaching and Learning or to submit upcoming trainings,

please contact Jennifer Jones at ctl@alamancecc.edu

Jennifer Jones (DL)

336-506-4115

Jennifer Jones

(Education)

336-506-4276

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