Two Colleges, two Teachership Academies, one goal: Creating our own master teachers

I selected this session because elearning is planning on working with Central's Instructional Assessment Committee to train faculty on Quality Matters as a way to help faculty understand outcomes well enough to assess their achievement accurately for assessment purposes.

This was a great session, I'm glad I came. Here are my notes from the session:

El Paso Community College
10 month program, one session per month for 4 hours. Attendance required, a time to focus on themselves. Attendance required because they know that otherwise faculty workload would take over. Good food. Deans support and it is a competitive process. Haven't dropped people very often, but they have done it.

Mix of internal and external speakers (external speakers compensated). Small logo gift (computer bag) for other presenters.

Goal - to enhance teaching skills of faculty and to concentrate on teaching strategies. Focus on tools that they can implement the very next day.

Also includes an action research project. They present findings in a poster session at the end of the session.

Encouraged to utilize technology, have a technology series of topics
Informal expectation that these faculty mentor others.

Graduation session at the end, held in a fancy hotel, graduates get medallion to wear at college graduation and plaque.

Committee runs the institute, all volunteer. Launching a phase two for graduates of phase 1. Continue to work on action research and write a scholarly journal article and make a virtual conference presentation. Also get certified in their LMS. All speakers in second phase were external.

Lots of resources including
monthly newsletters, based on content of sessions,
website,
library collection
Achieving the Dream bet practice for 2011.

Kaskaskia College
New to this, modeled on the El Paso program
Tied in with several existing activities
Internal leadership academy to grow faculty, taught by the college president
How to teach online
Title 3 summer institute
5 annual in service days
Had a more individualized pathway, since it was harder for faculty to get to main campus. Lots of sessions and the faculty got to decide which things they attended. These things would give them credit towards Teachership.
Sessions
Blackboard training
Brown bag webinars
Professional development videos through Starlink
Attend conference, read book, etc and write a reflective paper
Some sessions required
Poster session ( were trained by a poster session about poster sessions)
Research paper abstract
In service days (required sessions)
Did not limit membership to faculty, some staff involved, offered for credit.

El Paso was really very helpful to them and Kaskaskia is also happy to help and share.

Neither program offers stipends, but Kaskaskia offers horizontal movement on the pay scale. Both have bursting requests, with good balance between full and part time. Most motivated by desire for personal enrichment.