October 2021 Development Day
Last updated October 4, 2021
Friday, October 8, 2021
Development Day Outcomes
The Professional Development Day Work Group planned this day for faculty to have the opportunity to engage in cross-division, collaborative group work regarding teaching and learning.
- Faculty will share experiences and discuss best practices allowing them to build awareness and improve understanding of classroom issues.
- Faculty will be able to describe and summarize the characteristics of accessible and inclusive syllabus design that reflects the instructor's approach and engages students and will begin incorporating these concepts into their syllabi.
- Faculty will be able to describe and summarize methods and modes of delivering syllabus information to students that are engaging and meaningful and begin incorporating these concepts into teaching and learning.
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October Agenda
7:30 AM Breakfast (Coffee, Rolls, Fruit) - CTC124/125
8:00 AM Welcome - Dr. Deborah Anderson - D225; Assessment, Outlines, Syllabi, Best Practices - Dr. Deborah Anderson and Dr. Patrice Hess
- For Fall 2021 - Assess new ILOs instead of old General Education goals; ILO#1 - Communication-To communicate effectively; ILO#2 - Inquiry-To apply critical, logical, creative, aesthetic, or quantitative analytical reasoning
to formulate a judgment or conclusion; ILO#3 - Social Consciousness-To understand what it means to be a socially conscious person, locally and globally;
ILO#4 - Responsibility
To recognize how personal choices affect self and society. Assessment Committee members will be visiting division meetings to provide an update on how to assess this semester. - For Spring 2022 - Update course syllabi to use new ILOs instead of old General Education goals; ILO#1 - Communication-To communicate effectively; ILO#2 - Inquiry-To apply critical, logical, creative, aesthetic, or quantitative analytical reasoning
to formulate a judgment or conclusion; ILO#3 - Social Consciousness-To understand what it means to be a socially conscious person, locally and globally;
ILO#4 - Responsibility
To recognize how personal choices affect self and society. Turn course syllabi into divisions with these updates made. - Spring 2022 and beyond - IVCC will be implementing a new curriculum system to develop and maintain course outlines and syllabi. Redoing the master course outline template is on hold until that system is in place.
- Best Practices for Teaching: Strategies for Course Design and Delivery
- Best Practices for Faculty Syllabi
- Syllabus Statements (current) - more syllabi statements are being reviewed in TLC; Forms of Address (Names and Pronouns); Transgender/Gender Nonconforming Students; Title IX; Pregnancy and Parenting; Anti-Discrimination Policy; Anti-bias Statement; DEI Statement
8:30AM Introduction and Roadmap for the Day - Mike Phillips - D225
8:45AM Move to Breakout Rooms - D214, D228, D229
The remainder of the day will be held in the breakout rooms.
9:00 AM Syllabi Discussion - Faculty Facilitators; Discussion Shared Folder - Inside this folder you will find a document for your group's discussion. Please record relevant points or follow up items in the file with your room number's name.
9:45 AM Syllabi Discussion Debrief - Faculty Facilitators
10:15 AM Break
10:30 AM Speaker Introduction; Creating an Equity-Minded Syllabus: Part 1; In this session, we will provide background on creating an equity-minded syllabus by drawing from the Center for Urban Education's Syllabus Review Guide for Equity Minded Practice. We will discuss how the syllabus can be revised to reflect the six pillars of equity-mindedness: Welcoming, Demystifying, Creating a Partnership, Validating, Representing, and Deconstructing. Participants will identify policies that could be changed to be more equity-minded.
Speakers: Eva M de la Riva Lopez, Professor of Psychology, Oakton Community College; Kristen Hren, Associate Professor of English, Oakton Community College.
12-1:30 PM Lunch (Tacos, Salad, Chips, Salsa, Cookies), Union Meeting; Lunch will be served in CTC122/123. The Union Meeting will be held in CTC124/125.
1:30-3:00 PM Creating an Equity-Minded Syllabus: Part 2; In this interactive workshop session, we will examine and revise classroom policies and practices through an equity lens. By creating a dynamic, collaborative conversation around course policies and practices, we can identify and revise those areas where equity gaps exist in our courses. Participants will actively reflect on their own syllabi and classroom interactions in order to identify equity gaps and begin to revise their syllabi to address those gaps. Participants should bring a syllabus to work with during this session.
There will be no division meetings on October 8, 2021.