Workshop Objectives

As a result of this workshop, participants will be able to:

Landscape of Higher Education

Describe the characteristics of higher education as they apply to your home institution, including organizational structure, Carnegie classification, mission, strategic plan, funding model, etc.
Employ public laws and regulations and institutional policies to your instructional activities

Career and Professional Development

Articulate your perceptions regarding a career in higher education
Identify your style or color profile and how to communicate with and relate better to others, including how to create or maintain an educational environment that supports, challenges and motivates people from all color profiles.
Prepare a strategy for achieving promotion and/or tenure at your home institution
Describe the scope of service activities and identify institutional expectations for career advancement
Employ the principles of successful negotiation to achieve professional goals
Describe the benefits of professional networking and the progress achieved among program participants

Designing, Delivering, and Assessing Student-Centered Learning

Apply philosophies of instructional design and development to your individual courses
Design an effective presentation using a systematic approach
Integrate active learning strategies to ensure student centered learning
Design strategies of formative and summative assessment of student learning
Identify how technology can be used in instruction
Identify the scope of student advising and recognize when to refer to other resources

Accreditation and Its Impact on Instruction

Identify components of the CAPTE accreditation process and evaluative criteria
Identify the purposes of and timeline to create a self study report
Describe the institutional and CAPTE expectations of student scholarly activities
Compare and contrast institutional versus specialized accreditation

Developing and Maintaining a Scholarly Agenda

Develop a plan to achieve a scholarly agenda as per CAPTE criteria and institutional expectations
Substantiate your resource needs (including time) for career development

Balancing the Personal and Professional