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Quick Tips for Teaching Success continues this summer! The series will run from July 7-28, Wednesdays at 12:00 p.m. The live presentations are open only to Porterville College faculty, but the recorded presentations are available for any educator who might benefit from them. You can also visit our General Resources page. This page is updated after each presentation. |
A Deep Dive into Surviving High (Academic) Anxiety
July 28, 2021
After more than a year of working from home, teaching online, and adapting to changing and uncertain conditions, you may be looking ahead to the fall semester and feeling some anxiety – you’re not alone, and the ‘Quick Tips’ team is going to share some of their anxieties as well as their ideas for how to support your students and the anxieties they may be feeling while preparing for your fall semester classes. In this final ‘Quick Tips’ webinar of the summer, let’s all talk about what we’re doing to get ready for the coming school year. Join us this Wednesday for our latest exciting webinar – and you’ll be sure to leave with some ideas to consider for yourself and your students!
Quick Tips for Getting Hired!
July 21, 2021
Whether you are an adjunct or full-time instructor, new to teaching or with years of classroom experience, you might be looking at job listings in higher education, considering applying for a new position, and have questions - or wish you had more insight into the process and what the people who decide whom to hire are thinking. This week our ‘Quick Tips’ team looks at the hiring process in higher education, providing some tips to avoid common mistakes, improve your chances with your application materials, with committees and initial interviews, and what you can do to prepare for that all-important final interview – and we might have a special guest joining us who will provide some tips of their own (hint: it’s not a faculty member!)
A Deep Dive into Professional Development
July 14, 2021
Other colleges have reaped the benefits that come with ongoing professional development, such as faculty engagement and increased student success, but Porterville College currently lacks a consistent institutional and cultural tradition for this. Next week our webinar takes a ‘deep dive’ into this issue of what our college – and we as faculty – could do to create opportunities for and support of faculty professional development. What form would it take? Who would organize and lead it? How can we incentivize participation in it? How can we pay for it?
A Deep Dive into Being a Professor
July 7, 2021
We all have ideas about what it means to be a professor – but why do we have those ideas? What were our formative experiences in becoming a professor? Who helped us, and how do we help others? Knowing what we know now, what would we have done differently earlier in our teaching careers? What do we want to do in the future? What do we need from each other to succeed? What kind of campus culture do we want to have, and how can we as professors work to support it?
Your ‘Quick Tips’ team will engage in a ‘deep dive’ round-table discussion of what it means to be a professor in higher education today, and at our college specifically. Join us this Wednesday for our latest exciting webinar – and you’ll be sure to leave with some ideas to consider as you think about your own role!
Your ‘Quick Tips’ team will engage in a ‘deep dive’ round-table discussion of what it means to be a professor in higher education today, and at our college specifically. Join us this Wednesday for our latest exciting webinar – and you’ll be sure to leave with some ideas to consider as you think about your own role!
A Deep Dive into Addressing Learning Loss
April 21, 2021
During this unprecedented time of disruption, confusion, and adaptation, many educators have expressed concerns about the phenomenon of ‘learning loss’ on the current generation of students. This week your ‘Quick Tips’ team will engage in a ‘deep dive’ round-table discussion of learning loss and its impact this year – and how it might affect our students in the future - and our planning for next year’s classes. So join us this Wednesday for our latest exciting webinar – and you’ll be sure to leave with some ideas to consider as you plan your own classes!
A Quick Tips for Open Educational Resources
April 7, 2021
Although there is an enormous amount of educational material available to us online now, you may not have the time to review it all to find what is relevant to your subject area or your style of teaching. Don’t worry, your Quick Tips Team will share with you some of their favorite Online Educational Resources (OER) and how they use them in their online classes! So join us today for our latest exciting webinar – and you’ll be sure to leave with some creative solutions to incorporate into your own online classes!
A Quick Tips Special: Comfort Zone Challenge
March 24, 2021
Do you find that you avoid certain instructional approaches because you aren’t comfortable with them, think they don't fit your teaching style, or have just found reasons to avoid learning how to use them in your classes? Do you enjoy watching colleagues do things that make them uncomfortable? Then you will love our next ‘Quick Tips’ webinar: the Quick Tips ‘Comfort Zone Challenge’!
Having worked together now for several months, our Quick Tips team has learned the preferences and habits of each other’s teaching, and we’ve come up with a way to force each other to push our own boundaries – our teammates have challenged each other to do the things they have avoided their whole careers. You’ll get to learn what the challenge was, and how each team member rose (or attempted to rise) to the challenge! Did they succeed? Did they regret agreeing to participate in this? Did they learn to loathe each other? Find out on this Wednesday as you join our latest exciting webinar – and you’ll be sure to leave with some creative solutions to incorporate into your own online classes!
Having worked together now for several months, our Quick Tips team has learned the preferences and habits of each other’s teaching, and we’ve come up with a way to force each other to push our own boundaries – our teammates have challenged each other to do the things they have avoided their whole careers. You’ll get to learn what the challenge was, and how each team member rose (or attempted to rise) to the challenge! Did they succeed? Did they regret agreeing to participate in this? Did they learn to loathe each other? Find out on this Wednesday as you join our latest exciting webinar – and you’ll be sure to leave with some creative solutions to incorporate into your own online classes!
Quick Tips for Saving Time
March 3, 2021
As you have shifted to online instruction you may find that many aspects of teaching are even more time-consuming, and that managing your time well has become even more essential – you may even feel overwhelmed by it all or have been forced to cut corners to meet deadlines. This week our ‘Quick Tips’ team shares their secrets to saving time, and how they ensure the quality of instruction while avoiding burnout. So join our latest exciting webinar – and you’ll be sure to leave with some creative solutions to incorporate into your own online classes!
A Deep Dive for Ensuring Learning
February 17, 2021
When we teach, how do we know are students are learning? When we teach online, how do we have to adapt our teaching strategies to ensure learning is taking place? If you have questions about this, or thoughts to share, then join our latest exciting webinar for something new – a roundtable ‘deep dive’ discussion among our panelists about this topic so central to the nature of education – and you’ll be sure to leave with some creative solutions to incorporate into your own online classes!
Quick Tips for Old Problems in a New Format
February 3, 2021
Are you finding that despite moving classes from a face-to-face to an online format, you continue to have familiar problems? Those old problems may require new solutions online, and our ‘Quick Tips’ team will share with you some of the ideas we have used. So join us for our first ‘Quick Tips’ webinar of the semester – and you’ll be sure to leave with some creative solutions to incorporate into your own online classes!
Quick Tips for Course Creation
November 18, 2020
Have you struggled with how to make your online course fit your Canvas shell, how to organize your material, and how to achieve the look and feel you want? Our ‘Quick Tips’ experts will share examples with you of some of the ways in which you might design your online course to ensure it has that look and feel, is easy for students to navigate, and meets all of the requirements for online instruction. So join us for our final ‘Quick Tips’ webinar of the semester – and you’ll be sure to leave with some new ideas to incorporate into your own online classes!
Quick Tips for Collaborative Classrooms
November 4, 2020
Having a class with successful student collaborations isn’t just important to show ‘student-to-student interaction’, it’s important for teaching them valuable skills they will use throughout their life. That’s challenging enough in a traditional classroom, but doing it in an online classroom is even more so. So this week our ‘Quick Tips’ team shares their strategies and philosophies for creating more collaborative classrooms, and teaching students about shared responsibilities, working in different kinds of groups, and helping each other. So join us for an important ‘Quick Tips’ webinar and maybe you’ll leave with some new ideas to incorporate into your own online classes!
Choosing Online Formats: A Quick Tips Discussion
October 21, 2020
This week our ‘Quick Tips’ team discusses the pros and cons of online class formats – synchronous vs. asynchronous, flexible vs. scheduled, live vs. self-paced, or whatever your preferred terms, the issue is the same: how should you set up your class? What is best for your students? What is best for your teaching pedagogy? What works best with your Learning Management System and available technology? What best fits your current online instruction skills? The answer might be different for each instructor, but your Quick Tips teams wants to share their experiences to help you decide what will work best for the online classroom experience you want to create. So join us for this ‘Quick Tips’ webinar debate and maybe you’ll leave with some new ideas of things to incorporate into your own classes!
Quick Tips for Academic Accountability
October 7, 2020
Do you worry students in your online class are cheating? Are you struggling to adapt your assignments to an online format in a way that maintains academic accountability and rigor? If this sounds familiar, you’re not alone – but there are tools and strategies to help, and we want to share with you some of the ones we’ve found to be most effective in both reducing opportunities to cheat and increasing incentives that encourage honesty and integrity in student work.
Quick Tips with a Few of Our Favorite Things
September 16, 2020
As you continue to explore teaching online, you may be looking for useful resources – and there is so much out there it can seem overwhelming. In this ‘Quick Tips’ webinar, each of our presenters will share some of their favorite resources and how they use them to keep their classes fresh and get inspiration and new ideas. Come join us to hear all of our presenters share ‘a few of their favorite things’ – and maybe these resources will become favorites of your own!
Quick Tips for Staying Current & Connected
September 2, 2020
You’re working long hours online from home, and maybe feeling a little isolated – so how do you stay current in your field, and feel connected to colleagues here - and around the world? Join Melissa, Rebecca, Joy, and Ian as they share some ‘quick tips’ from the strategies they and others have used to stay ‘current and connected’ while working online through useful academic websites, webinars, courses, podcasts, social networking sites and apps, and more!
Quick Tips for Adding Fun
August 12, 2020
As you adapt to online instruction, are you finding it hard to keep things fun? Well, you’re not alone, so join Melissa, Ian, and Joy as they share some ‘quick tips’ from the strategies they have developed and used in their own virtual classrooms. By sharing your own sense of fun and encouraging your students’ ideas and role in the process, together you can make the online experience more engaging, collaborative, creative, and memorable.
Quick Tips for Meaningful Interaction
August 5, 2020
Join Melissa, Joy, Dustin, and Rebecca as they share some ‘quick tips’ for strategies focusing on meaningful interaction with students. They will share their examples of the ways in which they maintain an online presence, communicate with students, provide feedback, show empathy, define boundaries, and personalize the experience of the virtual classroom.
Quick Tips for Student-Centered Learning
July 29, 2020
Join Melissa, Elisa, and Ian as they share some ‘quick tips’ for strategies focusing on student-centered learning. They will share examples of how in a virtual environment, they have kept the focus on students through the use of methods such as student presentations, student-led discussions, and interactive assignments.
Quick Tips for Creating Engaging Videos
July 22, 2020
Join Melissa, Dustin, and Elisa as they share some ‘quick tips’ for using videos in your online classes that will keep student interest, be memorable, effective, and personal. You’ll hear about some of their technical suggestions for making your videos, but also fun ideas for imparting content and generating participation. Learn also their tips for what not to worry about and how to embrace imperfection.
Quick Tips for Creating Community
July 15, 2020
Join Melissa, Rebecca, Ian, and Elisa as they share some ‘quick tips’ for effective forms of creating community in an online environment -– and how to overcome the challenge of developing a virtual classroom ‘culture’ that encourages enthusiasm, participation, and inclusivity, while creating connections that last throughout the duration of your course. After our facilitators each share a few of their ‘quick tips,’ they will take questions from the webinar chat as well. Come watch and get inspired and excited for the upcoming school year with familiar faces -– and fun!
Quick Tips for Student-to-Student Interaction
July 8, 2020
Join Melissa, Dustin, Rebecca, and Joy as they share some ‘quick tips’ for effective forms of student-to-student interaction – including how they use techniques such as Discussion Boards, Q&As, Icebreakers, Role Playing, Peer Reviews, Small Groups, and Social Media. After each of our facilitators shares a few of their own ‘quick tips,’ they will take questions from the webinar chat as well. Come watch and get inspired and excited for the upcoming school year with familiar faces -– and fun!
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Quick Tips for Online Success
A Webinar-Style Series from Porterville College Faculty Questions? Contact Melissa Long |
