Building Expertise: Sharing Reading Strategies to Boost Student Confidence and Success
Students enter the classroom with varying degrees of confidence in themselves as readers. When we share with students the many reading strategies we use in our own areas of content expertise, their reading comprehension and confidence increase. This leads to greater student success in understanding class texts and completing reading assignments. In this online workshop, ...
Read moreClimate Justice in Action
Session dates and times will be determined based on participants’ schedules This asynchronous learning community will provide significant support to faculty who want to develop and implement a climate justice-focused student project, within a local community, in their course. Student projects should be implemented in courses during the 2019 – 2020 academic year and ...
Read moreClimate Justice Online Faculty Learning Community
This fully online, asynchronous Climate Justice Faculty Learning Community supports faculty as they develop a climate justice-focused lesson. The learning community will be modeled after a popular and successful in-person version offered in Fall 2018, and is designed to help participants hone their knowledge of climate justice issues and, with significant support, teach one lesson ...
Read moreCreating Animated Videos – NEW
Want to engage students in the online environment right from the start? This workshop helps faculty make their own animated videos to use in Canvas courses! Participants will be using Powtoon to create, edit, publish and share a video – either a self-introduction, welcome, or tutorial video. This interactive and hands-on workshop will help you ...
Read moreDigital Identities: Creating and Communicating the Online Self
In Digital Identities, Rob Cover makes the audacious claim that for those living in the affluent West, the divide between online and on-ground selves has become so porous as to no longer exist. We now live between the virtual and the real to the extent that differentiating between the two no longer makes sense when ...
Read moreFacilitating Student-Led Conferences – NEW
Study and practice techniques for facilitating student-led conferences in any discipline! One complaint about student conferences is that they very often become meetings without reasons or agendas--wastes of instructor and student time. With highly structured student-led conferences, students present and critique their own strengths and weaknesses and potentials plans of action for building on and ...
Read moreFaculty & Staff Choir
This Fall Quarter, the BC Faculty and Staff Choir are back for another year of fun, learning and community building! We will learn new songs, expand our vocal range, and participate in fun activities such as going caroling around campus at the end of the quarter! We will be meeting in E126 (Choir Room across ...
Read moreHigh 5
A Faculty Commons original, High 5 is a movement toward closing the student success gaps! Develop your teaching toolkit and share ideas with colleagues about how to implement 5 high-impact strategies proven to increase student retention rates because you and your students are connecting in meaningful ways. These practices are based on research literature from ...
Read moreLanguage and Community: A Literary Discussion Group
Facilitated by English faculty, Nan Ma, this literature reading group for faculty in any and all disciplines meets once a month for an hour to discuss short stories, poetry and essays that are chosen by group members. Some writers discussed in the past include Amy Hempel, Lydia Davis, Grace Paley, Ocean Vuong, Beidao, and Cesar ...
Read moreMy BC-SharePoint, OneDrive, Groups, and OneNote for Faculty!
Back by popular demand! Come to one session or come to each in A109B MyBC-SharePoint—The Basics: Wednesday, October 16, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Introduction to My BC-SharePoint Permissions overview Understand when and why to use a SharePoint site MyBC-SharePoint—Libraries: Thursday, October 17, 1:30 – 3:00 p.m. Prerequisite: Familiar with MyBC SharePoint Create Views in ...
Read moreNuts and Bolts of College Instruction
What do we need to know and do to not only fulfill our job with our students but also develop confidence in our role? The Nuts and Bolts workshop strand engages faculty in discussions about the fundamentals of being a college instructor, while making practical applications to our instruction. Throughout these sessions we introduce evidence-based ...
Read moreOnline Teaching Squares
This workshop is for instructors who have taught online courses and completed CANVAS 101 training or its equivalent. Online Teaching Squares allows experienced faculty with intermediate to advanced levels of Canvas skills to gain new perspectives and insights into their online courses. To start, we will review basic online teaching best practices. Based on those ...
Read moreParable of the Sower
Holding onto our humanity in the face of what may be coming as a result of the climate crisis will be a never-ending challenge, but also a determining factor in whether this crisis turns us toward one another or pits us against each other. The Parable of the Sower, set in California in the 2020s, ...
Read morePreparing for the First Week of Class with a UDL Approach
Preparing for the First Week of Class is a workshop meant for new faculty and seasoned faculty. You might have learned about the concepts behind teaching with a universal design for learning (UDL). You may have even incorporated some of the elements into your day-to-day instruction. Now, in this workshop, with a review of UDL, ...
Read morePreparing for the Interview
This 2-session workshop focuses on preparing for a college faculty interview. You’ve made the first cut, and maybe even the second! Now you are called in for the interview. An interview for a full-time faculty position may include a variety of components: a campus tour, a meet and greet of potential colleagues, a timed question/answer ...
Read moreStudent Engagement Strand
No matter how long you’ve been teaching, this transformational offering is for you! Why? We know that an engaged student is much more likely to succeed in college. The Student Engagement Strand centers on active learning and community building in the classroom. The strand begins with an interactive investigation of the most current research on ...
Read moreTeaching Square – An Opportunity to Observe and Reflect
Registration closes on September 25 so the group can begin planning for the 3 meeting dates. (If you teach online, please see the Online Teaching Square option on page 18) This quarter, you can join fellow faculty members to observe and share reflections with one another in this non-evaluative process called a ‘Teaching Square.’ A ...
Read moreThe Habits of Highly Effective Professionals: Connecting Through LinkedIn
Are you LinkedIn? Connected to other professionals in your field OR is your profile frozen in time? Come and see why LinkedIn is a powerful tool for higher education professionals. Please join us for an overview as we also provide one-on-one advice on your profile. Not just for job applications but to participate in groups, ...
Read moreUpdating Your Faculty CV
Is it time to update your CV? Are you confident you know the difference between a resume or CV? How do other college instructors structure their CV? Join current and former BC Center for Career Connections staff and your colleagues in this 2-session workshop designed to support your newest CV updates, whether you’re applying for ...
Read moreWriting Your Diversity Statement
Do you have a Diversity Statement? Could you articulate it in writing? What about in an in-person interview? A Diversity Statement is now a requirement for any employment in higher education and being able to clearly articulate your commitment to diversity and equity is also important for promotional purposes. This workshop will focus on helping ...
Read moreWriting Your Teaching Philosophy Statement
Do you have a teaching philosophy? What is it? Do your students know what it is? Could you articulate it in writing? What about in an in-person interview? A statement of teaching philosophy is often a requirement for tenure-track teaching jobs (and increasingly for adjunct teaching jobs as well) and being able to articulate your ...
Read moreLast Updated April 5, 2019