Professional Development Credit Offerings Fall 2022 |
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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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Infusing Information Literacy Across the Curriculum (new!)
GECs: 3
September 6 - December 9
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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:
August 23
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Teaching Online Successfully
GECs: 1 (per course)
Create: September 12 - September 25
Facilitate: October 3 - October 16
Enhance: October 24 - November 6
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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 29
Facilitate: September 19
Enhance: October 10
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Equity Teaching Academy: Examine for Equity
GECs: 3
October 18 - November 22
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“Examine for Equity” is the first course in the Equity Teaching Academy series. This course invites participants to examine their individual and institutional contexts to generate deeper awareness of issues related to educational inequities.
The course is taught by a lead faculty member from the College of Education at Illinois State University, Dr. Pamela Twyman Hoff, and assisted by a facilitation team of Harper faculty who helped to refine the curriculum.
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Registration Deadline:
October 4
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SGIF+B: Enhancing Small Group Instructional Feedback (SGIF) Practices To Discuss Learning and Belonging With Your Students
CEUs: 0.4
September 16, 10 a.m.
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In SGIF+B, 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.
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Creating Equitable Learning Experiences: An Introduction to the Enacting Equity Course Review Tool
CEUs: 0.2
October 19, 9:30 a.m.
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Who succeeds in Harper courses and why? What can an instructor do to improve student outcomes? 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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Become an Ally Advocate: Improve the Accessibility of Course Materials with Ally for Blackboard
CEUs: 1.0
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.
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Using GoReact to Create Video Assignments in Blackboard
CEUs: 0.15
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: 0.3
September 13, 5 p.m. - 8 p.m., on campus
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Join us for the annual Adjunct Faculty Teaching & Learning Conference featuring keynote speaker, Cate Denial. The conference will be in person this year and will include dinner, resource tables from campus departments, a fun and interactive closing session, giveaways, and more. We hope you can join us!
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Assessment Conference and Share Fair
CEUs: up to 0.4
September 30, 8 a.m. - 1 p.m., on campus
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Join us for the 14th Annual Assessment Conference and Share Fair featuring keynote speaker, Dr. Natasha Jankowski. Dr. Jankowski will share her perspective on the past several years of pandemic learning and what it means for the needs of incoming or returning students. A way forward will be presented to ensure equity and excellence in support of students without overburdening faculty and staff.
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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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