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Here’s the skinny on the mini
(workshop)
Pacific Crest will present a
free, two-hour introductory session at your college. To
take the plunge, get five to fifteen participants to attend
the workshop, arrange a meeting room for the presentation, and
select two to three topics you would like to see
facilitated. Here’s a list of possible topics:
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Learning environments
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Describes the process of how
to establish a productive learning environment,
including how to obtained shared commitment, developing
a risk- supporting environment, setting high
expectations, embedding assessment, and challenging
student performance to raise the bar. |
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Process Education |
An overview of an
educational philosophy that focuses on growing a set of
transferable learning skills and building self
–reflective practice that produces a culture of
self-growth. |
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Assessment |
A clarification of the
distinction between assessment and evaluation. A set of
principles involved in practicing assessment, presenting
universal tools, and building a culture of practicing
self assessment. |
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Regional Professional
Development Centers |
Pacific Crest has been doing
faculty development for 20 years and has launched a
faculty development program at colleges across the
country encompassing 20 different types of professional
development institutes. |
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Instructional Design |
Overview of program and
course design, focusing on professional profiles,
measurable learning outcomes, constructing knowledge
tables, writing performance criteria and implementing
course and program assessment systems. |
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Learning Theory |
Focusing on an explicit
model of learning, and then a set of supporting learning
skills, exploring Bloom’s levels of learning, and
discussing issues involved in producing higher levels of
learning. |
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Student Success |
Pacific Crest will share
stories of how different institutions increase student
success, by implementing transformational changes in
program processes, systems and cultural practices. |
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Program Assessment |
Provides an overview of the
methodology to design a quality program assessment
system, focusing on key components, including its
essence, its scope, goals, processes, and assets. From
this program analysis, qualities are identified,
performance criteria written, measures identified, and
standards set. |
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The Faculty Guidebook |
An overview of a six year
project of faculty scholarship and teaching learning
where a team of 60 faculty have published best
researched practices to improve faculty performance in a
wide range of areas. |
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Please get in touch with
Faith@pcrest.com to discuss setting up this workshop at
your institution. You’ll get access to a special site which
will allow you to select the topics you would like to see
presented, and custom make a flyer that can be distributed
at your school to advertise the workshop.
This may be a mini-workshop but
it's full service from Pacific Crest!
For more
information about Pacific Crest and Dan Apple please go to
www.pcrest.com.
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