Summer 2020 Professional Development Catalog

Summer 2020 Professional Development UnmaskingYourTeachingPotential SummerFacultyBookStudy

How

to

Teach Anything to Anyone Online

by Rebecca Frost Cuevas

Click Here to Sign Up – the sign up will include your address so that the book can be sent directly to your home when ordered. You will be enrolled in a course in Blackboard which will have a discussion forum for each chapter of the book. After the last chapter, a certificate will release so you can document the hours that you invested in the book study. Sign Up by May 31

This book introduces and explains the Course Design Formula™, a research based instructional design process that promotes excellence in online course development.

Integrating best practices from cognitive psychology, instructional design, learning theory, information processing theory, and more, the formula helps you create high quality learning journeys for your online course participants.

This book integrates and synthesizes the findings of leading education researchers such as Jean Piaget, Jerome Bruner, and Robert Gagné with the author’s extensive professional training and experience. The result is a clear, simple, easy to apply process you can use to make your presentations stand out in the online learning space.

Whether you are an experienced teacher in the offline space, or you have never taught before in any context, get ready for a fast track guide to how to be a truly transformational teacher, online.

The guidance you’ll receive in this book will make your online course creation process fast, fun, effective, and simple to apply to your specific content and target audience.

FQAS 1 Teaching Methods

Tuesday, May 26, 9:00 12:00

FQAS 2 Assessment

Tuesday, May 26, 1:00 4:00

FQAS 3 & 4 Behavior Management, Student Success

Wednesday, May 27, 9:00 12:00

FQAS 5 – Course Design

Wednesday, May 27, 1:00 4:00

FQAS 6 – Diversity

Thursday, May 28, 10:00 12:00

NOTE: FQAS 7 Data and Evidence is now integrated through Program Review, Assessment Work, and FQAS Assessment

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Learn What You Want, When You Want with Hoonuit

Self Enroll in the Course

Due to the unknowns of the summer, we are using amazing resources through Hoonuit to offer our summer professional development. The Hoonuit Modules vary in length from 1 hour to 6 hours and use an interactive View It, Do It, Share It, Prove It model. You choose only the workshops you want to do. Certificates are generated when you complete a workshop.

Workshops Available in the Summer 2020 Professional Development Course

Online Teaching Presence Using the Community of Inquiry Model (4 Hours)

When designing and teaching an online course, it is important to include the Community of Inquiry (COI) model in that design in order to ensure that the student interacts with the instructor, the other students, and the content of the course. All three aspects of COI are equally important and influence each other. In this module, teaching presence, social presence and cognitive presence will be reviewed and examples will be given on how to infuse COI into the design of an online course.

• Given the Community of Inquiry Model, identify the three necessary areas for a productive educational experience.

• Given the Community of Inquiry Model, design a grouping of content around a topic for an online course that is in line with the cognitive development segment of the model.

• Given the Community of Inquiry Model, design an activity for an online course in the Social Engagement segment of the model.

• Given the Community of Inquiry Model, participants will design an activity for an online course in the Instructor Presence segment of the model.

Teaching Online and Hybrid (1 Hour)

Whether you are a novice just starting out or an experienced online instructor looking to enhance your skills, this program explores quality course design, how to maintain academic excellence, and strategies to engage students in an online environment. Experts discuss best practices in building online and hybrid courses.

Designing Your Online Course (5 Hours)

Learning to teach online and to design online classes can feel very foreign. In this module, you will learn how to translate face to face courses to the online environment. You will learn about what it's like to facilitate an online course and the new skills required in this environment. You will learn to create an online syllabus, including creating measurable learning objectives, and assessments, learning activities, and content delivery methods that align with those objectives. You will learn about tools and strategies for assessing student work in the online environment and how to create active, engaged lessons. You will also learn to choose, create, and curate content delivery methods for online delivery.

By the end of this learning module, the learner will be able to:

• Create alignment between measurable learning objectives, assessments, learning activities, and content delivery materials

• Build a syllabus appropriate for the demands of online education

• Create a strategy for online assessment, learner engagement, and content delivery

• Describe ways to encourage academic honesty in online courses

• Create policies and procedures to support student learning in the online environment

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Best Practices for Creating eLearning (3 Hours)

In this module, you'll discover some valuable tips on making your own online training, from incorporating some adult learning theories to creating engaging content to storyboarding and planning.

By the end of this learning module, the learner will be able to:

• incorporate adult learning theory principles into their training.

• learn tips on creating engaging video content.

• design videos that connect with their audience.

• use various applications to design graphics and storyboard their project.

Teaching Online: The Basics (3 Hours)

If you're new to teaching online, this learning module will walk through some of the basics, such as what to include, how to add variety of media, and tips on communicating with your students.

By the end of this learning module, the learner will be able to:

• Plan how to better communicate with online students

• Understand the importance of engaging learners in an online course

Creating Engaging Lessons Online (6 Hours)

Many constraints are being put onto traditional classes in terms of time and material to be covered. As a result, many teachers have started using online materials and activities to effectively teach the material. However, creating online lessons is very different from creating lessons for the classroom. This online course takes you through the information you need to know to successfully create engaging online lessons. Whether you are supplementing your face to face class with flipped lessons or you are taking your course fully online, the information in this course will help you get started.

• By the end of this learning module, the learner will be able to:

• Differentiate between engagement and entertainment in lesson design

Cool Online Tools (3 Hours)

This module is designed to suggest technology applications or tools that can solve teaching and learning problems. The module is broken up into tools to improve personal productivity, peer to peer interactions, student to content interactions, and student to instructor interactions.

• Assess student learning of an online lesson

• Create an engaging online lesson to lead students to mastery of the stated

How Can Rubrics Improve My Projects and Assessments? (4 Hours)

Reflective Practices to Improve Instruction (5 Hours)

What makes this project an A or that paper a B? Providing objective and consistent grades for subjective assessments can be difficult and time consuming. This learning module focuses on using rubrics to improve communication with your students, streamlining the grading process for alternative assessments, reducing the time you spend addressing grades, and giving students ownership in the grades they earn. You will learn what rubrics are, why you should use them, and how to create effective rubrics for assessment.

In this module, we will look at how teachers can use reflective practices to improve instruction. Following the Danielson Framework 4a, we'll look at strategies for reflection, planning, and implementing to revise and improve instruction and student learning.

• By the end of this learning module, the learner will be able to:

• Understand the impact of reflection on teaching and learning

• Apply strategies that assist with effective reflection

• Implement strategies for using your reflective data to improve instruction and learning

• Explain what rubrics are and how they can be used as an assessment tool.

• Identify and describe the main components of a rubric.

• Create original rubrics based on learning objectives.

• Compare rubric generators and decide which will be most useful when creating rubrics for an assignment.

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Facilitating Online Learning in an LMS (1.5 Hours)

Effective online courses require a lot more than just understanding how the supporting technology works; facilitators need to understand the nuances of online learning and how to engage students and reach learning goals in a virtual environment. We will cover the steps instructors need to take before the course begins, how to build content, how to encourage collaboration, what assessment tools are appropriate, and how to determine success with various evaluation techniques, all while exploring how your institution’s LMS can help you along the way.

Teaching in a Virtual Classroom (2 Hours)

In the absence of face to face and in person interactions, those who teach in a virtual classroom setting must leverage new strategies for developing an environment that is conducive to participation, sharing of ideas, and effective collaboration. To do this, you need to be able to communicate in a way that builds trust, provides support, and facilitates interactions for your students that are inclusive, focused, and productive. In this experience, you'll learn new behaviors and approaches to help you succeed.

By the end of this learning module, the learner will be able to:

• Engage your virtual student audiences more effectively.

• Develop stronger and more intentional physical and vocal presence for class presentations.

• Make more authentic, trusting connections with remote students.

• Deliver more engaging virtual presentations.

• Facilitate more successful student interactions.

Three Strategies for Cooperative Learning in the Cloud (3 Hours)

In this module, you’ll learn how cooperative teaching and learning strategies can create active learners and help develop critical thinking skills. We’ll look at three proven cooperative teaching and learning strategies Jigsaw, Poster Session, and Gallery Walk to see how they can be implemented in the online classroom to develop 21st century learning skills like global communication, collaboration, and collective problem solving. We’ll start with a look at how to organize the online learning environment the tools and services you’ll need to prepare for conducting discussion, writing activities, and presentation in the cloud, and some tips for developing online learning teams. Then we’ll look in detail at the basics of each of the three strategies and steps to conduct them online. Finally, you’ll learn how you can make these activities accessible for all of your students. The module includes downloadable instructions for virtual setup for all of the activities for both students and instructors, as well as a list of free tools for web conferencing, discussion, messaging, document sharing, and slide creation.

By the end of this learning module, the learner will be able to:

• Define cooperative learning and list some of its basic elements.

• Discuss specific skills students may develop from online collaboration.

• Organize a virtual environment for cooperative learning.

• Compare online implementation of the three cooperative learning strategies.

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Assessment of Learning How Do They Know? (7 Hours)

Concerns related to gainful employment, student loan debt, student retention, and graduation rates have trickled down to the program and classroom level to directly impact the ways in which student learning is documented and assessed. In this era of heightened scrutiny and increases in accountability measures, what do educators need to know about assessment, its purposes, and practices? This online learning module focuses on how this topic applies to higher education, and K 12 educators will also benefit from this training.

After completing this module, learners will be able to:

• Identify the differences between assessing, evaluating, and grading.

• Describe the relationship that exists between assessing, evaluating, and grading.

• Provide examples that distinguish between assessing, evaluating, and grading.

• Identify the purposes of assessment and evaluation.

• Provide examples of the major purposes of assessment and evaluation that relate to their content areas or teaching fields.

• Explain the contributions that pre assessment, formative assessment, and summative assessment can make to the teaching/ learning process.

• Describe the differences between norm referenced and criterion referenced assessment and provide an example of each.

• Identify the measurement principles that make assessment tools effective.

• Define triangulated assessment and explain why it is an essential component of effective assessment practices.

• Identify characteristics of effective closed response test items, including multiple choice, matching, and true/false.

• Identify characteristics of effective open response test items, including short answer and essay.

• Describe the benefits of authentic and performance based assessment.

• Provide examples of different alternative assessment strategies that relate to their content areas or teaching fields.

Copyright, Copyleft, and Fair Use for Instructors (4 Hours)

In this module, you’ll learn the basics of copyright for students and teachers. We’ll talk about the history of copyright, and the purpose of copyright law as it’s described in the U.S. Constitution. We’ll look at the actual protected rights of copyright holders, and what constitutes infringement of those rights. In addition to copyright, we’ll talk about the concepts of public domain and open licensing, and how open licensing developed in reaction to copyright law. We’ll take a close look at the doctrine of fair use, especially as it applies in an educational setting.

Digital technologies and the innovation they bring have challenged copyright, with developments like peer to peer file sharing, remix culture, and mashups. We’ll talk about how these new ways of creating and sharing over digital networks have affected copyright law and created new societal expectations.

Copyright can be complicated, so we lay out steps you need to take to find and legally use copyrighted works and to protect your own creative work. In a separate section, we clarify the importance to teachers of thinking about copyright, and provide some suggestions for how to introduce copyright concepts to students. Finally, you’ll have access to links to resources for both students and teachers to find useable sources and to follow up and dig a little deeper into some of the concepts in this module.

By the end of this learning module, the learner will be able to:

• Define copyright and describe its original purpose.

• Discuss infringement of copyright in an educational setting.

• Discuss the role of public domain and open licensing in the creation of new works.

• Evaluate the balance between current copyright law and the rights of the public to use existing works to create new works.

• Complete a fair use analysis for a book, music, image, or video.