Practices of Promise PEG BALACHOWSKI ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING EVERETT COMMUNITY...

ARTICULATION AND TRANSFER COUNCIL - JANUARY 23, 2015

Practices of PromisePEG BALACHOWSKI

ASSOCIATE DEAN FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING

EVERETT COMMUNITY COLLEGE


#EvCCThisIsHowWePlay


Disturbing the Universe (O’Banion) “Doing more of the same will just get us more of the same.” “disruptive innovations” and “deeper engagement, scalable interventions”

◦ Community College Week Point of View October 2012


Modeling Engagement (Nicholas Longo) “Faculty need to model the kind of engagement we want to see from our students.”

Longo, N (2011). Re-Thinking Our Roles:

Engaging Faculty for Student Engagement


Modeling Engagement Support for faculty engagement is from hire to retire. These practices support faculty efforts to increase student engagement and success. A vibrant culture of student engagement and success is really a large effort and involves many stakeholders (re: Strategic Plan).


Current Emphasis – Student Success What would it look like to have an initiative on faculty success?


Strategic Priorities•Student Success•Innovation and Leadership


Innovation and Leadership•We infuse innovative learning and state-of-the-art pedagogy into all course offerings.•Our infrastructure supports innovative instruction, prepares students for technologies of the future, and links education and training to high demand career paths.


PracticesInnovations Academy

New Faculty Teaching Academy

Title III Associate Faculty Academy

Student Success


Innovations Academy



Student Success


Genesis of IA “We infuse innovative learning and state-of-the-art pedagogy—such as an emphasis on critical thinking and collaborative learning—into all course offerings.”


Innovations Academy•One week (four days) in summer•One coordinator, three facilitators (internal experts)•Sixteen participants •Taught exclusively by active learning•Seed money from BOT, now institutionalized•4 IAs in 3 years


ASSESSMENT & REFLECTION Take one new technique from three workshops that you learned at the IA. Develop an activity for your classroom using each technique. Create a rubric. Assess how your change impacted student learning. Write your own reflection on all three of the activities, what you learned about your teaching practice.


ASSESSMENT & REFLECTION Take one new technique from three workshops that you learned at the IA. Develop an activity for your classroom using each technique. Create a rubric. Assess how your change impacted student learning. Write a reflection on all three of the activities and what you learned about your teaching practice.


Fall 2014 IA Faculty were required to visit a class of someone outside their discipline.


FUNDING•Coffee each morning and afternoon.•Participants paid $1000 after reflection is submitted (and only then).•TOTAL COST = $20K and change


RESULTS Priceless


Year 1

16 = 1296


By Year 3

63 = 5103


Innovations Academy



Student Success


Nice campus …


But sometimes you just have to get away!


FIRST RETREATS (2003)

•Focus on building partnerships•Individual courses & faculty•Developing curriculum•Budget of $2,500


The Original Model

Going to work after work

More like a business meeting – what’s the purpose of a retreat? To advance!


Repeat the retreat?•The challenges of keeping it fresh!•Collaboration + Innovation = COLLABOVATION


MISSION STATEMENT The annual teaching and learning retreat

provides opportunities to share BIG IDEAS & BEST PRACTICES

by creating meaningful interaction among the campus community.


It’s Midterm: Do Your Faculty Look This Relaxed?


Annual Teaching and Learning Retreat 2015 is the 13th annual retreat Run on a shoestring by eLearning team New themes that have emerged:

◦ONE: The power of one idea◦From One to Many – What Inspires You?◦RED: From hot topics to cool ideas◦What are you afraid of?


TAG LINE FOR 2015 Your greatest fear holds your

biggest growth.


Enlighten us, but make it quick.


ON A SHOESTRING Total Cost: < $3000 Covers lodging, food, materials for up to 70 people

Food: $725.00 3 meals, mocktails, coffee, tea and snacks Lodging: $1600.00 Cabins, kitchen, and main hall use Supplies: $200.00 Additional supplies, printing, welcome packages Total: $2525.00


Food: $725.00 3 meals, mocktails, coffee, tea and snacks Lodging: $1600.00 Cabins, kitchen, and main hall use Supplies: $200.00 Additional supplies, printing, welcome packages Total: $2525.00

70 employees renewing, re-energizing, and learning: Priceless


Attendance•65% Faculty•16% Classified•19% Exempt

In 2014 42% of attendees were first time retreaters


Synergy + shared brains = All lead to innovations and new possibilities!

Magnified creativity & Multiple viewpoints

Colleague Insights


We are all teachers.We are also all students.We learn from each other just as we teach each other.

If we don’t come together, how will we continue to learn?

Colleague Insights


Innovations Academy



Student Success


MISSION STATEMENT The New Faculty Teaching Academy will serve as an agent for innovation and transformation, and will seek to foster excellence in teaching and learning practices. Toward this end, the Teaching Academy will be designed to provide opportunities for professional growth to new faculty.


RATIONALE•Induction into the Academy is an investment in retention, integration, and continual individual growth, with the central goal of improving student learning.•Mentoring relationships offer an opportunity for reciprocal growth and learning.•A successful program is integral to the implementation of other campus initiatives.


GOALS•To purposefully welcome new faculty;•To provide on-going support for the work of new faculty, including professional development;•To increase institutional scholarship; •To increase reflective practices.


FOCUS ON THREE AREAS•Promoting teaching effectiveness and innovation, both in the traditional classroom and online/hybrid;•Facilitating academic paths to success in teaching and leadership, supporting new faculty in professional growth and development of exemplary teaching practices;•Strengthening teaching and developing opportunities for leadership on campus and in our profession.


GETTING TO KNOW THE CAMPUS - 2-DAY ORIENTATION


TIME (Oct 8, 2013) “What’s the key to effective learning? One intriguing body of research suggests a rather riddle-like answer: It’s not just what you know. It’s what you know about what you know.”

Annie Murphy Paul


MONTHLY DISCUSSIONS•Assessments (Formative & Summative)•Rubrics•Student Evaluations•Course climate•Mastery•Best practices


EMPHASIS IS ON REFLECTION

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/7659907@N05/2924173228


METACOGNITIONThe gift that keeps on giving.

Donna Wilson, Ph.D., in Edutopia


“The Boss of My Brain” Explicit instruction in

metacognition puts students in charge of their learning – no matter who the students are.


Innovations Academy



Student Success


Associate Faculty Academy


TITLE III Retention Innovations to Strengthen Advising and Academic Programs


EvCC is committed to providing support and training for all new full-time and associate faculty so that they are able to:

•Develop and post to Canvas a course syllabus which includes EvCC established course objectives and outcomes •Demonstrate in the syllabus the alignment of student learning objectives with assessment strategies using Quality Matters standards•Engage students through use of a welcome message in the Canvas classroom


EvCC is committed to providing support and training for all new fulltime and associate faculty so that they are able to:

•Submit a BIT report to document student behavioral issues and concerns•Provide feedback to students through use of the Canvas grade book •Select objectives on the IDEA survey faculty information form based on established course outcomes•Complete a written reflection and assessment of the Academy


1 QUARTER ACADEMY


MEETINGS Initial meeting and mid-quarter meeting F2F with mentors (mentors are from different department) Lunch provided; discussion appropriate to time of quarter:◦Week 1 - Getting started◦Week 5 - Student evaluations


ASSIGNMENTS•Sample BIT report•Syllabus in Canvas•Welcome page in Canvas•Grade book in Canvas•Quality Matters (QM) “light”review•Selecting IDEA Objectives (Student evaluations)


SUCCESS - FAILURESQUARTER ENROLLED COMPLETED REPEATSFall 2013 21 14 Winter 2014 15 10 3Spring 2014 6 3 1Fall 2014 22 12 1


OBSTACLES•No shows•Faculty overwhelmed first quarter•Unfamiliarity with LMS Canvas•Faculty who are strictly online/teach evenings/at different campus


COMMENTS It feels good to have a Mentor that you can go to in order to get answers to questions that come up during the quarter. As an Associate Faculty, you don’t always have access to another instructor. I am very thankful for this course. It showed me things that I was not able to learn in my department, specifically how to use canvas. This course helped me feel more confident and navigate my way.


The Academy (mentors and meetings) helped me learned more about grading, grade book, engaging activities, teaching with the end in mind, plus-delta, and other elements that helped me serve our students better.

I feel a lot more comfortable teaching the classes and serving students than before attending the academy. Sharing the similar situations with other associate faculty and getting advice from the mentors help me to raise my confidence to a comfortable level.


Next Steps – Big Ideas•Clarifying observation vs. evaluation•Classroom coaching institute•Campus book club•Re-branding Innovations Academy (adding IA for online instructors)


Next Steps Building on what we do well…but can do better. Roadblocks:

◦Participation ◦Money◦Too many committees (no equity in work)◦Too few tenured faculty◦Too few tools

TARGETTHIS GROUP

The silent majority

I raise my hand for everything!

Can’t get me to do anything.


Hiring Procedures

•Hiring Committees•Agreement on what we are looking for in our faculty

•Interviewing hints


Faculty Success = Student Success What would it look like to have an initiative on faculty success? Our students will only be successful if our faculty are successful.


Q & A

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