Professional Development Credit Offerings Fall 2023 |
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Please watch the Academy website during the semester for the most updated list of opportunities.
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Graduate Equivalency Courses |
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Teaching Online Successfully
GECs: 1 (per course)
Format: Online, asynchronous
Create: September 11 - September 24
Facilitate: October 2 - October 15
Enhance: October 23 - November 5
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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: August 28
Facilitate: September 18
Enhance: October 9
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Equity Teaching Academy
GECs: 3 (per course)
Format: Blended/HyFlex
Examine: September 25 - October 30
Reflect: November 13 - December 18
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“Examine for Equity” is the first course in the Equity Teaching Academy (ETA) series. This course invites participants to examine their individual and institutional contexts to generate deeper awareness of issues related to educational inequities.
“Reflect on Equity” is the second course in the ETA series. This course guides faculty through experiences for deep examination of their course design and facilitation.
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Registration Deadlines:
Examine for Equity: September 11
Reflect on Equity: October 30
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Creating an Accessible Learning Environment for Students With Disabilities
GECs: 3
Format: Online, asynchronous
October 2 - December 1
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In this course, participants will have an opportunity to learn basic information about the ten most common visible and invisible disabilities, in order to evaluate a course or program and develop methods that make the learning environment inclusive and welcoming to all students, including students with disabilities. The course will utilize real case studies of past Harper students, to have an honest discussion about the challenges that students face when navigating an inaccessible learning environment. The pandemic added additional challenges that will be discussed in this course.
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Registration Deadline:
September 18
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Panopto Essentials: Getting Started with Video Creation, Sharing, and Organization
CEUs: 0.1
Format: Virtual
September 12, 1 p.m. OR
October 10, 9 a.m. OR
November 14, 12 p.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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Ally for Everyone - Lunch & Learn
CEUs: n/a
Format: In-person and virtual
September 19, 12 p.m. OR
October 18, 12 p.m. OR
November 16, 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. 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
September 22, 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 complete an equity course review are eligible to receive a stipend. This session will take place in person with an option to participate virtually. Refreshments will be provided for in-person participants.
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Evaluating and Remediating Instructional Content and Media for Accessibility
CEUs: 0.15
Format: In-person
September 26, 3 p.m. OR
October 25, 4 p.m.
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Do you want to improve access and inclusion for all students? Do you know how to evaluate your course materials for accessibility and other common barriers that may impede learning? This workshop will provide an overview of methods and tools for evaluating and repairing instructional content for digital accessibility. All students, including students with and without disabilities, can benefit from having accessible materials for utilizing alternative formats. This workshop will help you to learn to identify when materials need remediation but also learn to build accessible materials so that no remediation is required.
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Teaching in Compressed Formats Across Modalities Workshop Series
CEUs: 1.2
Format: Virtual
October 16 - November 5
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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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The Applying Equity Matrix (AEMy): A Tool for Identifying and Sharing Supportive Strategies
CEUs: 0.15
Format: In-person, virtual, and on-demand
October 19, 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.
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National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE) Eight Essential Skills
CEUs: 0.2
Format: In-person and virtual
November 8, 4 p.m.
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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 integrate them with greater intentionality into 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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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 complete an equity course review are eligible to 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 4 Connections.
This on-demand workshop will share Odessa’s fascinating story and give you the tools to bring the power of The 4 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 4 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 4 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 Fall 2023 courses is October 20 (September 8 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.
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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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Adjunct Faculty Teaching & Learning Conference
CEUs: 0.35
Format: In-person (keynote available virtually)
September 14, 4:30-8 p.m.
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Register now for the 10th Annual Adjunct Faculty Teaching & Learning Conference featuring keynote speaker, Pascuala Herrera. The conference includes dinner, resource tables from campus departments, keynote presentation, breakout sessions, an interactive closing session, raffles and giveaways. We hope you can join us!
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Assessment Conference and Share Fair
CEUs: up to 0.4
Format: In-person
September 29, 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
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Join us for the 15th Annual Assessment Conference and Share Fair featuring keynote speaker, Dr. Divya Bheda, Senior Fellow at the American Association of Colleges and Universities (AAC&U) in Washington, DC. In her keynote address, Dr. Bheda will share some entry-points to engage in individual and collective efforts to move the needle in serving our students and communities better - especially in a world that is dealing with post-covid stressors, new artificial intelligence frontiers, and a continued onslaught of intersectional socio-political and economic traumas.
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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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