Register now: Winter ATL Retreat

ATL Winter Retreat
Focus on Faculty Development
March 8-9, 2012
Dumas Bay, Federal Way
ATL Registration form

See attached agenda.

Please send your completed registration forms to Jackie: jeclark@sbctc.edu

Do you have suggestions for articles, short videos, or other resources we might share at the retreat?

Send them to me and we can add them to the participant packet materials.

NACCTEP 2012 National Conference

The National Association of Community Colleges announces new keynote for the Leading the Way Conference in Philadelphia.  Chris Haskell is a lecturer and teacher educator at Boise State University as well as co-creator of 3D GameLab, a game-based learning management system. He will discuss the evolution of the teacher, the changing nature of teacher education, and the dramatic shift of the educational paradigm.

For additional information and to register for the national conference, visit the NACCTEP website at http://www.nacctep.com/_Conferences/2012_Philadelphia/Index.html

Register now: Winter College Readiness Retreat

Please forward to your faculty.

Integrated, contextualized, modularized, accelerated, cohort-building, "flipping" the classroom...

what does all of this mean and how does it help my students?

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Winter College Readiness Retreat

 – February 9-10 –

Registration forms are available here: http://www.sbctc.edu/college/e_assessment.aspx

(right-hand side of the page, scroll down to College Readiness)

We will be discussing the recent reports from the statewide Transforming Precollege Education work groups, hearing from colleagues around the state who are using models and strategies recommended by the work group, and will have hands-on opportunities to practice using these strategies. As always, there will be time for you to work with your campus teams on integrative assignments, assessments, or other curricular work.

Hope to see you at Dumas Bay Centre, in Federal Way, on February 9-10th !

Leading from the Classroom: Instructional technology and open resources

Co-sponsored by TACTC and WACTC, the Trustees and Presidents Associations

Leading from the Classroom:

Accelerating adoption of instructional technology and open resources

Faculty from our community and technical colleges will

lead these full-day, hands-on workshops

Each workshop will include:

·       Short demonstrations of teaching technology

·       Hands-on guided practice with new tech tools

·       Short introduction to open resource repositories

·       Hands-on guided practice locating and saving

           resources relevant to the courses you teach

You will leave the workshop with new skills,

new tools for teaching,

and a new collection of resources

to use in your online/hybrid/face-to-face classroom

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for the workshop in your region:

Tuesday, February 7^th

Lake Washington Institute of Technology

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Friday, March 16

South Puget Sound Community College

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Friday, March 23

Spokane Community College

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(Each workshop is a repeat; please register for just one.)

Questions?

Contact: Scott Dennis or NoreenLight

High court: State isn't fully funding education

In a highly anticipated court ruling release Thursday morning, the Washington State Supreme Court agreed the state is failing to meet its constitutional duty to fully fund education and said it would retain jurisdiction to make sure the Legislature does so.   Read more about this Seattle Times article here.

UW, WWU, CWU Alumni Earn Top Ranking for Receiving Teaching Certification

Read more here

A Call For Proposals - 2012 ATL Conference

Mark your calendars!

Assessment, Teaching and Learning Conference

Vancouver, WA

May 2-4, 2012

What will you share with your colleagues?

·         Innovative assessment strategies?

·         Use of open education resources?

·         Multiple delivery methods using instructional technology?

·         Research related to assessment, teaching and learning?

·         Professional development, or how you share best practices with your colleagues?

·         Transitioning students from precollege, ABE, and ESL programs into college-level courses?

·         Modularization, contextualization, integration, inverted models…so much going on the classrooms…

More Information here