Professional Development Credit Offerings Spring 2024 |
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Please watch the Academy website during the semester for the most updated list of opportunities.
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Harper Faculty Present: Research Supported Practices
CEUs: 0.4 (Friday) and 0.3 (Saturday)
March 8 - March 9
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All Harper College faculty (full-time and adjunct) are invited to the 2024 Faculty Retreat. This year’s Faculty Retreat, “Harper Faculty Present: Research Supported Practices,” provides an opportunity for Harper faculty to learn from one another as faculty share evidence-based practices, how they applied them, and professional learning opportunities that provided support.
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Registration Deadline:
February 1
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Graduate Equivalency Courses |
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Teaching Online Successfully
GECs: 1 (per course)
Format: Online, asynchronous
Create: January 29 - February 11
Facilitate: February 26 - March 10
Enhance: April 8 - April 21
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There are three course options to choose from based on your needs:
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Create: you're developing an online or blended course
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Facilitate: you're teaching an online or blended course
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Enhance: you're looking for tools & techniques to enhance your online or blended course to encourage student engagement
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Registration Deadlines:
Create: January 15
Facilitate: February 12
Enhance: March 25
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Infusing Information Literacy Across the Curriculum
GECs: 3
Format: Online
February 5 - May 10
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Information literacy is one of Harper’s General Education Outcomes and is a critical lifelong skill, particularly in today’s information-saturated world. Often, people see information literacy as “just doing research” or as something that only happens when students do essays, but in fact, information literacy is a complex and varied set of skills and dispositions that are taught across the curriculum. This course will help participants learn about information literacy and how it is applied in higher education as well as how to incorporate information literacy more fully into disciplines across the college.
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Registration Deadline:
January 22
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Equity Teaching Academy: Redesign for Equity
GECs: 3
Format: Online Live/HyFlex
April 1 - May 10
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"Redesign for Equity” is the third course in the Equity Teaching Academy (ETA) series. This course prompts faculty to consider institutional and course-level data as they envision ways to redesign aspects of their courses around equity pedagogies.
Completers of the Redesign for Equity course are eligible for a Redesign for Equity grant that includes improving the design and facilitation of their courses with summer curriculum work, implementation and assessment in the fall, and collaborative interpretation of data and use of results in spring.
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Registration Deadline:
March 18
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Panopto Essentials: Getting Started with Video Creation, Sharing, and Organization
CEUs: 0.1
Format: Virtual
January 26, 10 a.m. OR
March 15, 10 a.m. OR
April 19, 10 a.m.
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Unleash the power of Panopto in this virtual workshop designed to provide faculty with essential skills to get started with this all-in-one video platform. Explore creating, managing, and editing videos in Panopto, while seamlessly integrating it with Blackboard and Webex. Join us and tap into the potential of Panopto to enhance your teaching and learning experience.
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Four Connections - Lunch & Learn
CEUs: n/a
Format: In-person and virtual
February 6, 12 p.m. OR
March 20, 12 p.m. OR
April 18, 12 p.m. OR
May 3, 9 a.m. (Breakfast & Learn)
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In 2010, in an effort to improve course dropout rates, Odessa College sought out the common thread between their courses which had the greatest student retention. What they uncovered are four simple, yet effective practices that can increase your connection to your students and promote student success in your face-to-face or online classroom. They called their findings the Four Connections. This lunch and learn will share Odessa’s fascinating story and give you the tools to bring the power of the Four Connections to your classroom in more intentional ways. This session provides a great introduction or follow-up to the Four Connections and You On-Demand Workshop, and faculty new or experienced with the Four Connections are welcome.
These sessions will be offered once a month in a flexible format, so you can choose how you would like to attend. In-person attendees will be provided with lunch. Registration is required.
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Creating Equitable Learning Experiences: An Introduction to the Enacting Equity Course Review Tool
CEUs: 0.2
Format: In-person, virtual, and on-demand
February 9, 11 a.m.
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What can Harper instructors do to make their courses more equitable? This workshop presents opportunities for instructors to implement more equitable practices using the Enacting Equity in Courses tool. Under the guidance of instructors and Academy staff, participants will review institutional data and consider areas for improvement in their own courses.
Faculty who participate in the workshop are eligible to complete a full Enacting Equity Guidelines course review, work with a coach, and receive a stipend.
This workshop is available in person (refreshments will be provided for in-person participants), virtually, and on-demand.
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Ally for Everyone - Lunch & Learn
CEUs: n/a
Format: In-person and virtual
February 20, 12 p.m. OR
March 13, 12 p.m. OR
April 25, 12 p.m.
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Join us for an informational session on Blackboard’s Ally – a powerful tool designed to enhance the accessibility and usability of course content for all students. We will provide an overview of the tool, dive into the process of becoming an Ally Advocate, and highlight the numerous benefits associated with it. If you’re already an Advocate, don’t miss the opportunity to learn about the exciting new addition of Ally Peer Coaching, available this year. No matter what your previous experience is with Ally, we have something to share with you!
These sessions will be offered once a month in a flexible format, so you can choose how you would like to attend. In-person attendees will be provided with lunch and Ally swag.
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The Applying Equity Matrix (AEMy): A Tool for Identifying and Sharing Supportive Strategies
CEUs: 0.15
Format: In-person, virtual, and on-demand
February 23, 11 a.m.
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AEMy, the Applying Equity Matrix, is an interactive tool that helps you identify inclusive and equitable teaching practices. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to navigate AEMy and identify practices that can help make your courses more equitable.
Faculty who participate in the workshop are eligible to complete an AEMy self-assessment, work with a coach, and receive a stipend.
This workshop is available in person, virtually, and on-demand.
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Teaching in Compressed Formats Across Modalities Workshop Series
CEUs: 1.2
Format: Virtual
March 11 - April 7
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Explore adult learning strategies and best practices in compressed learning formats and across multiple modalities. This workshop series is part of the College’s commitment to strengthen the Fast Track program and other compressed formats targeted to the nontraditional learner across modalities. Current and future Fast Track and other instructors teaching in compressed formats are highly encouraged to attend, as are all instructors interested in discovering and practicing successful teaching strategies in compressed, and/or distance learning formats designed for non-traditional learners.
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National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Eight Essential Skills
CEUs: 0.15
Format: Virtual
April 9, 4:30 p.m.
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Would you like to receive more professional emails from your students? Ever feel like your students need to learn more workplace skills? Then you should attend the NACE Essential Skills webinar. Participants will learn about the NACE Eight Essential Skills and how they relate to future competencies all Harper students should have upon graduation. Participants will learn about the NACE Essential Skills Tool and how to use it to redesign elements of their courses. The connection between the NACE Essential Skills and Harper’s Learning Outcomes will be discussed as well. We will have a conversation about ideas for incorporating the Essential Skills into the participant’s current courses.
Following the session, participants will have the opportunity to engage further with the Essential Skills and implement them in a course to earn a stipend.
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Droneology 101: An Introduction to Drone Flight, Safety and Operations
CEUs: 0.3
Format: In-person
April 19, 9 a.m.
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Discover the basics of drone technology, safety, and applications through this workshop which will also include hands-on introductory drone flying activities. This workshop will provide educators with the fundamental knowledge about drone safety, types of drones, drone technology applications, regulatory requirements, and basic drone flying skills.
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Become an Ally Advocate: Improve the Accessibility of Course Materials with Ally for Blackboard
CEUs: 1.0
Format: On-demand
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Ally Advocates are recognized for their ability to leverage the Blackboard Ally tool to improve the accessibility, quality, and usability of course content for all students. An Ally Advocate will be awarded a badge and 1.0 CEUs for completing a chosen pathway in the Ally Checklist. This badge can then be shared through various platforms to show verification of completing training and criteria for course accessibility.
Once you are an Ally Advocate you have an opportunity to coach peer faculty through the process and earn a stipend.
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Creating Equitable Learning Experiences: An Introduction to the Enacting Equity Course Review Tool
CEUs: 0.2
Format: On-demand
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What can Harper instructors do to make their courses more equitable? This workshop presents opportunities for instructors to implement more equitable practices using the Enacting Equity in Courses tool. Under the guidance of instructors and Academy staff, participants will review institutional data and consider areas for improvement in their own courses.
Faculty who participate in the workshop are eligible to complete a full Enacting Equity Guidelines course review, work with a coach, and receive a stipend.
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Four Connections and You
CEUs: 0.2
Format: On-demand
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In 2010, in an effort to improve course dropout rates, Odessa College sought out the common thread between their courses which had the greatest student retention.
What they uncovered are four simple, yet effective practices that can increase your connection to your students and promote student success in your face-to-face or online classroom. They called their findings The Four Connections.
This on-demand workshop will share Odessa’s fascinating story and give you the tools to bring the power of The Four Connections to your classroom in more intentional ways. The call to action will be for you to reflect on your own effective strategies for bringing students into a strong class community, describe a new intervention you can implement under one or more of the Four Connections themes, and indicate a section or sections where you will employ these strategies so that we can track student retention and success in courses intentionally utilizing Four Connections and gather additional approaches that can be shared as a collection of strategies to increase retention.
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Small Group Instructional Feedback (SGIF)
CEUs: 0.4
Format: On-demand
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Pioneered at the University of Washington, Small Group Instructional Feedback (SGIF) is a voluntary, non-evaluative process for collecting feedback from your students on their experiences and perceptions of your course mid-way through the semester. Since 2019, Harper faculty have been using the SGIF process to great success in their classes.
In SGIF, a faculty peer conducts a 30-minute session in your class or distributes an online survey in which they ask your students to respond to five questions about your course: 1) What helps your learning? 2) What hinders your learning? 3) What can the instructor do to improve your learning? 4) What can you to do improve your learning? and 5) What increases (or could increase) your sense of belonging in the course? The peer will provide you with a confidential, written report of feedback collected, allowing you and your students an opportunity to make positive changes.
SGIF is available to all faculty, every semester without the need to attend a workshop.
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Deadline to submit interest form for Spring 2024 courses is March 15 (February 2 for first 8-week courses) |
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The Applying Equity Matrix (AEMy): A Tool for Identifying and Sharing Supportive Strategies
CEUs: 0.15
Format: On-demand
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AEMy, the Applying Equity Matrix, is an interactive tool that helps you identify inclusive and equitable teaching practices. In this workshop, you’ll learn how to navigate AEMy and identify practices that can help make your courses more equitable.
Faculty who participate in the workshop are eligible to complete an AEMy self-assessment, work with a coach, and receive a stipend.
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Using GoReact to Create Video Assignments in Blackboard
CEUs: 0.15
Format: On-demand
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GoReact is a tool that allows students to record or upload videos right into Blackboard, which you can then watch and give time-stamped text, audio, or video feedback. This is a fantastic tool for video/audio responses to prompts, student/group presentations, language/pronunciation practice, skills demonstration, and more. In this workshop, you will hear about a variety of ways Harper faculty are already using GoReact, and will learn how to easily set up, collect, and grade GoReact assignments within Blackboard.
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Tech Xpo: Explore, Engage, Evolve
CEUs: TBA
February 16
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Save the date for this year’s Tech Xpo: Explore, Engage, Evolve! The Xpo will be held Friday, February 16, on campus in the Academy (Building F, Room F317) as well as virtually through Webex. A few highlights include:
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Keynote by Dr. Sabba Quidwai, “Our Human Advantage: Designing Schools in the Age of AI”
- Breakout sessions featuring a spotlight on AI and other innovative technology ideas presented by our faculty
- Breakfast and snacks available for in-person attendees
- Raffle prizes
Watch for additional session details and registration information in InsideHarper and the Academy News.
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Academy for Teaching Excellence | 847.925.6174 | Building F, Room F317
Monday - Thursday, 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. and Friday, 8 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
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The mission of the Academy for Teaching Excellence is to create a vibrant teaching and learning culture for full-time and adjunct faculty that cultivates professional development in support of student success. |
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Accessibility: Individuals with disabilities who would like to request an accommodation or who have questions about physical access may contact the event host or Access and Disability Services at ads@harpercollege.edu, 847.925.6266, at least two weeks in advance of the event date.
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Harper College enriches its diverse communities by providing quality, affordable, and accessible education. Harper College, in collaboration with its partners, inspires the transformation of individual lives, the workforce, and society. |
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