Center for Teaching Excellence

Fall Events🍁🍃

7-Week Classes FLC

As CCRI ramps up our number of 7-week course sections, you may be thinking about how to adapt and adjust your course to the different time frame. Join a Faculty Learning Community (FLC) of your peers who are also making these changes! The Center for Teaching Excellence will provide support and 'homework' to help you think through your course systematically.

This Fall, there will be 5 cohorts that will meet 5 times each. All meetings will take place on zoom.

1. Tuesdays from 4:00 - 5:30 on 9/15, 9/29, 10/13, 10/27, and 11/10
2. Wednesdays 11:30 - 1:00 on 9/16, 9/30, 10/14, 10/28, and 11/4
3. **ENGL 1010 SPECIFIC** Wednesdays 11:30 - 1:00 on 9/16, 9/30, 10/14, 10/28, and 11/4
4. Thursdays 8:30 - 10:00 on 9/17, 10/1, 10/15, 10/29, and 11/12
5. **BIO SPECIFIC** Fridays 9:30 - 11:00 on 10/2, 10/9, 10/23, 11/6, and 12/4
   
   
   

   Full participation will be compensated with 15 CTE Knights Points and a $562.50 honorarium.

   Each 15-person group is open to CCRI Adjunct Instructors, Visiting Lecturers, and Full-Time Faculty, but please note the two groups that are for faculty who teach specific courses.

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New Adjunct Orientation

If you're an adjunct faculty member new to CCRI, you're invited to an orientation meeting on:
📆Tuesday, September 1 at 4:00
or
📆Wednesday, September 2 at 4:00.
📍 Zoom

At this meeting you will receive digital resources to help you get to know CCRI, and navigate it's programs and offices. You'll have the chance to ask questions, and meet your fellow adjuncts. Please fill out this form to indicate which day you'd like to attend. 
You will receive and Outlook Calendar Invitation for your chosen date that will include the zoom link.

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Maps Are For Everyone

Bring the power and possibilities of digital mapping to your classes. Learn how to make maps with free, user-friendly, and powerful online software and data (ArcGIS Online). Join Emily Burns and Renee Whitford, who will also introduce you to StoryMaps, online presentations that allow you to combine searchable maps with text, photos, video, and more. Find out how to design individual or collaborative mapping projects for yourself and your students. You can make maps within one discipline or across many; you can enhance students’ geographical literacy in any class by adding maps. Come with ideas and we will help you map them. 
Space is limited to 12 participants! Register now!

📆Monday, October 19
⏰3:00-4:15
📍Knight Campus, Room 2036
🌟Worth 4 CTE Knights Points

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Virtual Book Club: Class by Stephanie Land

📆 Wednesdays, 9/23-10/7
⏰ 1-2 PM
📍 Zoom
🌟 3 CTE Knights Points per session

All faculty and staff are invited to join a book club on Class: A Memoir of Motherhood, Hunger and Higher Education by Stephanie Land, an author featured at the Achieving the Dream Annual Convening. 

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Virtual Book Club: Opposite of Cheating by Gallant and Rettinger

📆 Thursdays, 10/15-11/12
⏰ 4– 5:30 PM
📍 Zoom
🌟 5 CTE Knights Points per session

Join us for an easy-going book club on The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI. Over five meetings, we will read and discuss this "positive and practical" book that (provocatively) recognizes cheating as "normal and natural student behavior" and helps educators reframe academic integrity as a pathway to intentional and authentic learning.

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Tenure and Promotion Writers Retreat

📆 Friday, October 30
⏰ 12 – 3 PM
📍 Knight Campus

Are you working on a tenure and/or promotion portfolio this semester? This retreat will support you in structuring your evidence folders and writing your narratives. A joint offering from CTE and the Tutoring & Writing Centers.

Register Here

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Knights Points

A new year of points collection has begun! 

Don't forget, you can fill out an Implementation Plan if you want to use anything you learn from any professional development in your classes for 4 CTE Knights points.

You have until Spring Symposium in May each year to earn 35 points for a Green Level Certificate or 70 points for a Gold Level Certificate!

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Disaggregated Data Requests

In February 2022, I (Rachel) was able to see my course data for General Psychology (a course I have taught many times here at CCRI) disaggregated by race and ethnicity. The results were surprising and difficult for me to face. Despite that, I’m very glad that I did it, and I’m looking forward to trying some new strategies in my courses to try to close the equity gaps I found.

If you’d like to check out your own course data, request a meeting to get started.

This is a confidential process and is for your professional development only. Results are not shared with chairs, deans, or the VPAA.

Request a Meeting

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The Center for Teaching Excellence is a collaborative, faculty-led community that supports continuous development and champions high-impact, equitable teaching and learning practices for our diverse student body.

We Listen and Learn
We Respond and Lead
We Recognize and Reward

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