Getting to Know the Center:
- Cultivated ongoing relationships with over 1,000 faculty to support excellence in teaching.
- Eased the transition and onboarding process for over 100 new faculty hires
- Ensured that nearly 500 faculty have been supported in the important work of maintaining their Faculty Quality Assurance System (FQAS) 2022 cycle requirements
- Provided meaningful professional development opportunities that supported over 300 faculty with nearly 1500 hours of FQAS-eligible programming in over 40 different training opportunities
- Created encouraging and timely communications with over 20,000 reads of CTE Connections
- Played an instrumental role in creating positive cultural shifts at the college that recognize the wonderful and crucial work of faculty.
Our Work--The Center and You!
If you are a Full-Time Post-Probationary faculty, you need to complete one TAP each year. If you haven’t already, it’s time to take the final steps to complete the submission of your TAP:
- List any additional actions you’ve taken towards your goals. If the actions are also FQAS activities then submit them into SumTotal as well.
- Arrange for your final meeting with your Peer Coach, share your results and get written feedback and a signature from your Coach on your TAP form.
- Save the completed form and submit it to SumTotal under “TAP: Teaching Action Plan.”
- You are required to submit your completed form every year prior to June 30
The goals that you set at the beginning of the cycle may have grown and adapted as you started to implement your newly acquired professional development skills into the classroom. The redesigned Teaching Action Plan (TAP) allows you to capture the full process of professional development from skills development and renewal to classroom application, so that you can reflect on what worked well, what didn’t work, what no longer works, and what could work with some adjustments. CTE recognizes that effective teaching involves a quality review process that embraces all of these levels of self-reflection and feedback.
The Center provides a safe and welcoming environment for you to receive support at any part of this process. For more information on creating, updating, or submitting your TAP, please see our website or feel free to contact us. We’re here to help!
The collaborative efforts of the Learn Pillar Integration Committee’s Professional Development Work Team has created an important update to the FQAS renewal process that is reflective of the professional respect that faculty deserve. A new and improved process creates a clear pathway for the approval of professional development programming that is less than 3 hours and falls under item 6 of the FQAS list of Professional Growth Activities. If you recently received a rejection from SumTotal for this type of programming, please resubmit your activity for reconsideration. The Center’s Faculty Development Coordinators are available to help you navigate any part of the FQAS renewal process; please do not hesitate to contact us.
In this FLC faculty will:
- Learn how to effectively connect with students in order to develop powerful & positive relationships that are conducive to people of all backgrounds and experiences
- Help to create a sense of belonging for our students in our classrooms and college community
- Practice a systematic and authentic method that helps you connect with students.
- Develop an alternate lesson that implements concepts of the pedagogy of real talk.June 8, 15, 22, & 29, 10 am - 12 noon
Each participant will receive their own copy of the paperback The Pedagogy of Real Talk by Dr. Paul Hernandez and have the opportunity to earn 20 FQAS hours for full participation.
MATC Professional Development Opportunities:
MATC offers a wide-range of professional development courses in a variety of delivery modes and durations as part of our efforts to design meaningful professional development that provides just-in-time training opportunities for you to explore what you need when you need it. All of these courses are free to MATC faculty and eligible for FQAS hours, so that you can plan and develop your own professional development goals and outcomes.
Myra George's last day at the college occurs this week. Myra's contributions to the college’s DEI work and contributions to professional development have been invaluable. Her work has contributed to much-needed growth and development at the college and will be greatly missed.
Below is Myra’s Last Day and Good-bye message:
It has been an absolute pleasure to work with all of you to build capacity for equity and inclusion at MATC. Look at all you have accomplished in these three years!
- We're having conversations we rarely had before the DEI Committee began
- We're insisting that data be disaggregated by race and gender.
- We've established equity as a strategic priority for the college.
- We're bringing in national speakers like Dr. Luke Wood, Dr. Ibram Kendi, Dr. Eddie Glaude, Jr., Dr. Angela Davis, and more.
- We're creating opportunities to hear directly from students.
- We're centering student needs in our syllabus and classroom practices.
- We're encouraging our students to have conversations about power and privilege.
- We're asking "Who's missing?" in our meetings, hiring committees, and other decision-making settings.
- We're watching films to fill in the gaps of knowledge about people and events that traditional education did not provide us.
- We're developing our cultural competency by attending trainings and earning badges to show our efforts.
- We're blocking off our calendar for Fridays at noon, knowing that the DEI Committee has a learning opportunity for us.
- We're using words like equity, inclusion, culturally responsive teaching and positionality. (And we're using them correctly!)
- We're speaking up when we see inequities.
I'm proud to have contributed to this work, and I know you will continue to do the hard work of eliminating racial equity gaps long after I'm gone. Thank you for the opportunity to know you and grow with you. I leave you with wishes for peace and blessings.
When: June 10, 2022, 9am-12:00pm, Virtual
To enroll, please determine a course you will begin converting to the 8-week format because you will start this process during the workshop. When you have a course identified, please email John Futterer, CTE’s Instructional Designer, and include the course you will begin converting during the workshop. For more information, please see the Center’s website.
CTE Collaboration Connection:
The college wishes to thank the 53 volunteers who participated on the various Learn Pillar Integration Committee Work Teams (Career Essentials, COS Process Review, Course Modality, Bilingual Faculty Classroom Support/Program Development, 21st Century Classroom, Cultural Competency in the Classroom, Professional Development). Your support and participation in LPIC’s inaugural semester this spring is much appreciated!
LPIC was designed by a faculty-led team in the Summer and Fall of 2021 to create a student-centered shared governance model. LPIC has created transparent processes to ensure a clear pathway to implementation for projects, collaborated with colleagues to have quality discussions about systems and processes to improve the academic experience for both students and faculty, created timelines to accomplish our goals, and communicated our progress throughout the year.
The Learn Pillar Integration Committee is looking for student involvement, and we need your help. The Learn Pillar Integration Committee keeps student success at the heart of all decisions and actions, but we can’t do that effectively if we do not directly connect with our students. The Learn Pillar Integration Committee has created a Student Interest Form; please share this link with students who are interested in improving the MATC experience for students and participating in a structure at the college that embeds the voice of students.
Friendly Reminders:
Important reminders for faculty teaching postsecondary courses:
- Assessment of Career Essentials in Blackboard is an ongoing requirement.
- Use the Career Essentials Assessment Process FAQ.
- Don’t forget to use updated rubrics.
- Consult an Instructional Support colleague for assistance.
- Courses participating in Technical Skills Attainment (TSA) should return roster spreadsheets to Institutional Research as requested.
Keeping You Posted:
Commencement Day is fast approaching. Over 1,300 students are being certified as official graduates of MATC this May and we cannot wait to celebrate with each of them and their families this monumental milestone in our students’ lives. Below are logistics for you to know regarding our Commencement celebration.
Date: Sunday, May 22, 2022
Location: Fiserv Forum
Time: 11 a.m.
Additional Professional Development Opportunities:
Inspiration, Research, and Best Practices
Part of CTE’s mission is to keep you informed about current best practices and pedagogical approaches. Each issue of CTE Connections includes links that are meant to be engaging, thought-provoking, and applicable to various classroom environments. For information on MATC's free access to Magna Commons publications, please see CTE's website. Enjoy the rabbit hole!
