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Welcome To School of Continuing Education Professional Development
A Collaborative Effort To Provide Consistent and Effective Support For Each Highly Valued Individual within the SCE Faculty and Staff To Facilitate a United Effort toward the Cultivation of Change To Ensure Excellent Student Learning Outcomes And Individual Staff and Faculty Leadership Opportunities
Facilitating Distinction ~ Enabling Success
ProD at SCE is:
- Many Things to Many People
- Built on Well-Established Foundations and Ideas from a Wide Variety of Sources
- Honors Professional Development Already Happening at SCE
- Focused and Unified to Meet the Needs of Classified Staff, Faculty, Managers and Administration
- Open to Insights, Ideas and Experience
Manager Moments
The SCE Professional Development Committee is excited about the opportunity to serve SCE Managers. The plan is to provide a one-page monthly collection of resources that brings to each manager’s fingertips ideas. So often educational leaders need just a few more minutes to read and assimilate resources. We hope to save you a few of those moments by collecting general information, instruction, leadership, inspiration, etc. content. Let us know if you want research in a specific area or from a particular source. We will provide assimilated reviews, etc. It is our desire to serve you. Thank you for this opportunity.
Volume 1: Active Learning “Active learning is simply that-having students engage in some activity that forces them to think about and comment on the information presented.” [www-ctl.stanford.edu/teach/speak.html]
Some Contemporary Principles of Adult Learning The process of action learning, founded by Reginald Revans about 50 years ago in England, is based on contemporary views of adult learning. Action learning asserts that adults learn best when:
• Working to address a current, real-world problem
• They are highly vested in solving the current problem
• They actually apply new materials and information and
• Exchange ongoing feedback around their experiences
… adults often learn best from experience, rather than from extensive note taking and memorization. Free Management Library Click for Resource
Resources
BS Regional Meeting Active Learning Resource Manual – Joan Cordova Click for Resource Active Math Learning Resources Everyday Math Click For Resource
Interactive Math Games Click For Resouce
Active English Learning Resources Grammar [Promo, but great tools] Click For Resource
ESL
ESL Teacher’s Board Click For Resource
Learning English from Newspapers Click For Resource
Educational Technology
Grant Program Active Learning Page Active Learning Strategies Click For Resource
Useful Links for Adult Basic Skills Tutors http://www.skillsworkshop.org/useful.htm Workplace Writing Skills Click For Resource
Printable Resources for Adult Basic Skills Click For Resource
All Disciplines, Clip Art, Myriad Classroom Resources Center for Teaching, Learning and Tech. Click For Resource C. Bonwell & J. Eison, 1991.
Active Learning: Creating Excitement in the Classroom, ASHE-ERIC Higher Education Report No. 1. Wash. D.C.: George Washington University. Click For Resource
National Teaching and Learning Click For Resource
Excellence in Active and Interactive Learning Click For Resource 
“Digital Learning Environment Blogs” By Elizabeth Helfant http://www.guide2digitallearning.com/blog_elizabeth_helfant/establishing_culture_learning_5
Quotes
“Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.”
- Chinese proverb
“Synergy is the highest activity of life; it creates new untapped alternatives; it values and exploits the mental, emotional, and psychological differences between people.
- Stephen Covey
Recent Poll Seeking Qualities of Ideal ABE instructors expressed these ideals:
Consistent ~ Routine ~ Organized
Trusted
ersonally Greets Students
Well Prepared ~ Relative Information
Creates Possibilities
Personalizes Goals
Releases Fears
Builds Confidence
Improves Skills
Well-Rounded Integrated
From The ABE Initiative Report
Effective Classroom Active Learning Techniques
Think-pair-share – pair students together – provide time to think about a topic – join another group and share ideas – rotate groups or enjoy a class debrief where each group has set time to share ideas…
Minute Papers – Can be used at the beginning of class to spark thoughts on concepts for the class session… students might reflect on a concept which will create a focus for material of the day… At the end of a class session the minute paper is also effective … students are asked to take a minute to reflect on a concept they learned and the questions that remain unresolved from readings, discussions or class exercises… using the unresolved thoughts to open the next class session will create a perfect review… Brainstorming With A Twist – students are asked to write one word or phrase responses to prompts on board or orally administered… post-it recorded responses placed on established Venn diagrams on the board which directly correlate to the topic of the day exhibit similar and differing insights on the topic…
Debate Format provides opportunity for students to learn to communicate ideas – especially if they are asked to take opposing sides of an issue… Debate format needs to be closely guided in classrooms – moderated debates keep everyone from taking topics too seriously or personally. Debating trains us to focus on facts, listen well, and clearly communicate ideas.
Case Studies And Role Playing are excellent active learning methods for gaining deeper insights into historic facts, literary characters, and civic and social leadership. [Insider/Entertainment Tonight scenarios might create productive memory tools for new information.
Professional Board Room Format allows students to prepare for the workplace. Technology can be an effective element in presentation of charts, tables, visuals, etc. Components might include cost analysis, impacts to a corporation or small business, family management issues, etc.
Active Learning which guides students to understand relationships of concepts to life, work or relationships statistically improve retention.
Ideas Modified from several sites - one being http://trc.ucdavis.edu/TRC/ta/tatips/activelearning.pdf
What is Staff Development?
Staff Development is the process by which faculty, management and classified staff are assisted to develop personal and professional skills related to job performance. The Chancellor’s Office has defined staff development for purposes of state funding as: “either direct college or district services to faculty or staff or support that helps them to improve their skills in instruction, advising, assessing student progress and developing curricula; or that improves student services or staff job performance; or helps faculty to conduct research or other scholarly or creative work, and/or stay current in their field or discipline.”
The funding that the state provides to staff development brings additional resources for individuals, groups and the District to develop and implement projects or proposals which are in supportive alignment with division and institutional goals as it relates to the state staff development nine authorized uses. The nine uses are:
- Improvement of teaching.
- Maintenance of current academic and technical knowledge and skills.
- In-service training for vocational education and employment training programs.
- Retraining to meet changing institutional needs.
- Intersegmental exchange programs.
- Development of innovations in instructional and administrative techniques and program effectiveness.
- Computer and technological proficiency programs.
- Courses and training implementing affirmative action and upward mobility programs.
- Other activities determined to be related to educational and professional development pursuant to criteria established by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, including, but not necessarily limited to, programs designed to develop self-esteem.
More specific criteria can be determined by individual committees depending on availability of funds, size of staff, etc.
Who has Access to Staff Development Funds?
All SCE staff, part-time as well as full-time, have an opportunity to apply for staff development funds. In addition SCE staff at Cypress College may also apply through the Cypress College Staff Development Committee. If interested in obtaining these funds, please contact the Cypress College liaison (see committee members).