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Faculty Professional Development Workshops at Wright College

Presented by– Maureen Mulcrone

Wright College---One of the City Colleges of Chicago

mmulcrone@ccc.edu

Purpose

I will demonstrate successful faculty development: ways to organize and market workshops, secure funding for materials, offer incentives for participants, and gather information for future improvement will be provided. The Act workshop series key features included lectures (Act I) followed by small group presentations (Act II) and individualized training (Act III).

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Agenda•Background of Wright BBoC•Resources at Wright•Act Workshops•Components for Workshop Success

•Marketing•Funding•Incentives•Assessment

•Improvement•Resources for YOU•Questions

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Wilbur Wright College One of the Seven City Colleges of Chicago

•Northwest side of Chicago

•Est. 1934

•Title V Institution

•4,013 FTE credit students

•Accredited by the Higher Learning Commission(formerly NCA)

•Majority of credit students under 30 years

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Wright College’s BlackBoard on Campus Initiative (BBoC@Wright)

•Began offering BBoc Classes Spring 2001•CCC supports the use of BlackBoard for online supplements•BBoC classes the extent of how much BB is used is determined by the individual instructor.

Online Component Courses

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Wright BBoC

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Teaching with a BlackBoard Component in Fall 2004

Adjunct Faculty

Full-time Faculty

How does this compare to your situation?

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Faculty resources include:

Bb course site, access to ION classes, internal and external web pages, workshops, and me

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BlackBoard@Wright

ION’s MVCR COURSES

Workshops@Wright

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• PeopleWright College•LRC•Administrators•Wright’s BBoC Faculty

•Co-presenters

•Me

What resources do you have?

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•The workshops

•Act I-show and tell•Foundation

•Act II-hands-on•Structure

•Act III-individualized•Keystone

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Act I

Act II

Act III

Reasons for workshops success

•Titles•Not intimidating •Hopefully fun•Implies sequential learning

•Constant elements•Names•Me

•Addresses multiple modes of learning•Learning from colleagues

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Act I - Foundation

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Participants

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Tues Wed Max

People

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Facilitators

•Keith McCoy, Math

•Jane Wagoner, English

•Maureen Mulcrone, Library

Act II – StructureHands-on, Booklet, created shells for the students

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Participants Facilitators

•Stephanie Battle, English

•Maureen Mulcrone, Library

Act III - Keystone

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Visited faculty in their offices-determined issues to be addressed Participants

•Music-Grades

•English-Redux of Act II

•Math-Grades, Exams, Redux of Act II

•Biology-Redux of Act II

•Computer Science-Grades, Exams, Sequential release of lectures

•Nursing-Exams, Redux of Act II

Facilitator

•Maureen Mulcrone, Library

Successful Workshop Components

•Marketing•Incentives•Support•Assessment

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Marketing

•Blanket Email•Paper copies of invite to all departments ideally before a BIG meeting•Hand-deliver invites to Administrators•Announce within the CMS•Reminder Email•Reply to everyone who has RSVPed

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InvitationsIncluded Elements-who, what, where, when, why and how

•Title•Why this workshop•Who is invited•When the workshop takes place-date and time•Who is presenting•How to enroll•Topics to be covered•Coming attractions•Credit

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Incentives•Certificates

•Peer Recognition•Priority for 1-on-1 training

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Support

•Administrative•Money•Talk

•Faculty•Enthusiasm•Time•Expertise•Knowledge of peers

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AssessmentsFormal-Surveys

Sample Questions• Did the content of the workshop match the stated?• Did the content follow a logical sequence? • Were the presented examples relevant? • Did the handouts enhance the workshop? • After this workshop, how comfortable do you feel about your understanding with the material presented in this workshop? • Submit your suggestions for future professional development workshops:

Informal-Hallway Chatter

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Room for improvement

•Branding•Have handouts and PowerPoint available on BB•Be more diligent about survey responses•Receive more effective feedback•Deliver more pertinent workshops •Cycle of workshops

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Steps to access this presentation

•Go to http://wright.ccc.edu•Click on the “BLACKBOARD LOGIN” link in the lower left-hand corner•Proceed to login

Username: ion2005Password: 2005

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How might you incorporate or build upon the practices presented here?

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Thank you for your time.

If you have further questions about these faculty development workshops, please contact the workshop facilitators

•Maureen Mulcronemmulcrone@ccc.edu•Jane Wagonerjwagoner@ccc.edu•Keith McCoykmccoy@ccc.edu•Stephanie Battlesbattle@ccc.edu

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