Week of January 25, 2016 – Professional Development Opportunities

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Primarily Education-Focused Sessions and Resources

20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor (Week of January 25th)

Date: Available January 25th – January 31st
Session Title: How Do Master Teachers Create a Positive Classroom?
Presenter: Kristin Roush, Ph.D. (Psychology Faculty – Central New Mexico Community College)

Overview:

In just 20 minutes, you will explore specific behaviors and teaching practices that will create a more positive classroom and lead to more success and happiness for you and your students.

How Do Master Teachers Create a Positive Classroom? shows you easy ways to incorporate creativity, optimism, enthusiasm, approachability, and humor into your teaching style. And it takes just 20 minutes!

Learning Goals
When you are finished with this program, you will be:

  • Familiar with these five traits of the positive master teacher
  • Exposed to several simple suggestions for promoting an inviting classroom climate
  • Able to identify and select teaching practices that work with and enhance your existing teaching style

How Do Master Teachers Create a Positive Classroom? is packed with ideas you can try right away. These positive classroom traits are available to anyone who aspires to be a master teacher, and this program will show you how.

The session link and login information to the January 25th 20 Minute Monday Morning Mentor is available in the announcements section of the Professional Development course within Blackboard. Enrollment instructions for the Professional Development course are located at http://tinyurl.com/profdevenroll.

Going Digital: The Basics of Teaching an Online Course

Date: February 2, 2016
Time: 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM
Location: 920 Madison – College of Nursing Conference Room #1039

Presenters: Dr. Marcia Sharp, Ed.D. (Associate Professor – UTHSC College of Health Professions / Faculty Innovation Scholar – UTHSC Teaching and Learning Center) and Kristy Conger, MS (Instructional Designer – UTHSC Teaching and Learning Center)

Overview:

Are you looking for ideas to help design or redesign your virtual course site? Designing for the online or hybrid course environment can present some unique challenges. However, it also opens up a world of possibilities for helping to successfully achieve those critically important student learning outcomes.

Join us February 2nd to discuss some best practices and tips for setting up and organizing your virtual course site. Specific items we will focus on include:
  • Ideas for customizing course appearance
  • Establishing instructor presence
  • Organizing and presenting your course content
  • Supporting students in the online environment

To register to attend this session please go to: http://tinyurl.com/cii-goingdigital

Did you know….

You can apply credit received for professional development outside the university to your faculty training records? Simply complete the HR Request for Additional Training Credit form at http://www.uthsc.edu/hrtraining/pdfs/additional_training_credit_form.pdf and forward it, along with a copy of the program’s agenda, to the HR Training Department at 910 Madison, Suite 727.

Why do this? The University of TN believes that professional development and training of its employees are central to the university’s mission, vision, and values. Having credit received elsewhere to your UTHSC training records is very useful to your department and college – for things such as annual reviews and program accreditations.