Training Calendar
New virtual workshops are now open for registration.
FPDi Active and Collaborative Learning (ACL) and the Tracks Virtual Workshops
Adjuncts and ACFs will be compensated for attending the workshops listed below (up
to 9 hours per academic year at the meeting pay rate). The workshops run for 90 minutes.
To register, go to Cornerstone. Search for “FPDI” in the Learning Tab.
Check out tutorials, additional trainings, best practices, and more on the Digital Education and Instructional Services (DEIS) Beyond Classrooms website at https://cs-cc.net/beyond
Here are the descriptions, dates, and times for the FPDi ACL and the Track workshops:
FPDi Active and Collaborative Learning (ACL) at CSCC Workshop
Do you have an active and collaborative (ACL) classroom? Do you want to know more about ACL and ways you can use it to transform teaching and learning? In this highly interactive workshop, you’ll learn about the College’s Faculty Professional Development Initiative (FPDi) and the language, pedagogy, and practices of Active and Collaborative Learning (ACL). Working with the FPDi team, you’ll share your ideas and experiences about ACL and learn foundational techniques that you can put to work right away in your specific discipline.
Date Time
Tuesday, Oct 12 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
FPDi Applying Active and Collaborative Learning (ACL) Workshop
Are you curious about how to incorporate active and collaborative learning into your classroom? Do you want to learn about specific strategies for using ACL? In this interactive workshop, you will learn about different active and collaborative learning techniques and how to use them in the classroom. You will learn about different ways to structure an ACL classroom experience as well as ways to troubleshoot common roadblocks that can appear along the way.
Date: Time:
Tuesday, Sep 21 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
FPDi Assessment and ACL
Do you want to learn how you can use Active and Collaborative Learning (ACL) techniques
to assess your students' knowledge base and understanding of course concepts? In this
interactive workshop, you will learn about specific active and learning strategies
and how those can be used to assess your students both in the traditional classroom
as well as in the virtual classroom. This workshop will highlight both summative and
formative assessments as well
as explore the connection that Active and Collaborative Learning has to Alternative
Assessment Techniques.
Date: Time:
Wednesday, Sep 29 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Monday, Oct 25 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
FPDi Getting Started with Alternative Assessment
Do you want to learn how you can use Alternative Assessment to assess your students' knowledge and understanding of course concepts and encourage students to learn to apply the knowledge? In this interactive workshop, you will learn about the benefits and strategies of using Alternative Assessment and how those can be used to assess your students both in the traditional classroom as well as in the virtual classroom.
Date: Time:
Wednesday, Sep 15 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Thursday, Oct 07 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Tuesday, Oct 19 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
FPDi Diversity Level 1 Workshop
Diversity is the first module of a three-part series surrounding Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. This module is designed to take an in-depth look at the makeup of the student body, what experiences students face in the classroom, and how diversity can be embedded in curriculum. Diversity is not separation but a look at the individual and an awareness of people from every walk of life and the intersections of people that create varying identities. Understanding who is in the classroom is the first step in broadening conversations, enhancing lessons, and facilitating growth for students, faculty, staff, the college, and surrounding communities. This and subsequent modules will follow the multicultural excellence theory by Sue and Sue (2003) which includes Awareness (mindfulness), Knowledge (learning), Skills (competencies), and Social Action (activism) within the classroom using Active and Collaborative Learning.
Date: Time:
Monday, Sep 13 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct 06 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
FPDi Diversity : Equity Level 2 Workshop
Equity is the second module in the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion series. This module will take what has been learned in the Diversity module and add the Equity component. After an understanding of who is in the room a glance into how epistemic resources can be unearthed and shared. When varying cultural norms, values and ways of thought are overlooked in the classroom student success can decrease. In this module self-reflections on possible implicit inequalities and thematic insights that inform teaching practices. This module will discuss how being an active listener can help enhance learning of how a student’s personal reality does not always coincide with their intellectual knowledge. Educators can lessen acculturative stress by learning to become an equitable change agent in students’ lives.
Note: You must complete Diversity Level 1 Workshop before you can register for this worskhop.
Date: Time:
Wednesday, Sep 22 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct 13 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m
FPDi Diversity : Inclusion Level 3 Workshop
Inclusion is the third module in the Diversity, Equity and Inclusion series. This module will integrate what has been learned in the Diversity and Equity modules and add the Inclusion component. This culminating module will touch on divisive cultural ideologies, ethical demands and requirements, and inclusive strategies that will help students stay and succeed. This module will focus on active and collaborative teaching strategies that will actively facilitate inclusion and a sense of community in the classroom.
Note: You must complete Diversity Level 2 Workshop before you can register for this worskhop.
Date: Time:
Thursday, Sep 30 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Friday, Oct 29 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
FPDi Critical Thinking Level 1 Workshop
What is Critical Thinking and why do we struggle to teach it? The first session presents a brief overview of critical thinking skills and dispositions and addresses some of the problems that get in the way of our efforts to effectively teach critical thinking.
Date: Time:
Thursday, Sep 16 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct 08 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, Oct 28 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
FPDi Critical Thinking Level 2 Workshop
In the first CT session, we considered the impediments to teaching CT effectively, the evidence-based strategies that enhance CT instruction, and the role of metacognition in supporting good critical thinking habits.
In this session we are going to put some of those principles into practice. This session is more workshop than presentation; every participant should select an assignment or class activity to redesign during the session. Our goal is to redesign one assignment by creating a problem/inquiry-based experience that brings together genuine discipline-specific problems with explicitly taught critical thinking skills.
Note: You must complete Critical Thinking Level 1 Workshop before you can register for this worskhop.
Date: Time:
Friday, Sep 24 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Thursday, Oct 14 1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m
FPDi Critical Thinking Level 3 Workshop
CT Workshop 3: How to enhance CT disposition in students: The problem of the resistant practitioner.
In parts 1 and 2 of the CT workshops we’ve been looking at enhancing CT through redesigning the structure of our courses to focus on explicitly infusing CT concepts and vocabulary into the class. In part 3 of the series, we’re going to be cracking the toughest nut of all, disposition. Critical thinking skills, like any set of skills, will have little durable influence on intellectual behaviors if the individual is not disposed to using it or is disinclined to persist when issues are complex or emotionally challenging.
In this session we will review the most important CT dispositions, consider why dispositions are as important as skills (maybe more so), learn why it is difficult to get people to adopt them, and consider strategies for enhancing students’ disposition to think critically
Note: You must complete Critical Thinking Level 2 Workshop before you can register for this worskhop.
Date: Time:
Thursday, Sep 30 3:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Friday, Oct 22 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
FPDi Leveraging Teaching with Technology Workshop
Meeting the Challenges of Student Testing
This workshop is designed for faculty who are teaching a live online or blended course and are concerned about academic integrity. We will discuss the advantages and disadvantages of Respondus Lockdown browser, Respondus Monitor, and Lockdown browser with live proctoring using Zoom. Various Blackboard test options will also be discussed, as well as best practices that faculty may use in the virtual testing environment.
Date Time
Friday, Sep 17 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
Friday, Oct 01 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
FPDi Leveraging Teaching with Technology Workshop
Effective Student Interaction Via Discussion Boards
This workshop focuses on how to design and facilitate meaningful and engaging discussion boards in your online courses. More specifically, this session will cover:
- creating guidelines/netiquette standards for student interactions
- using rubrics for discussion boards
- implementing strategies for the facilitation of constructive student interaction
Date Time
Friday, Oct 15 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
FPDi Leveraging Teaching with Technology Workshop
Effective Student Interaction Via Discussion Boards
This workshop is intended for faculty who have participated in live online meetings,
but would like to improve their methods for meeting with students synchronously.
The first half of this workshop will focus on best practices/pedagogical strategies
and the second half will offer participants step-by-step training on how to use the
features of Zoom.
Date:
Time:
Friday, Oct 29 10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.