Support
Fostering a Supportive Learning Environment
Excellence in teaching and learning includes showing empathy, respect, and support of students and their unique experiences. Faculty members who exemplify this competency engage in teaching practices that facilitate the sharing of ideas, invite diverse opinions, and encourage students to persist in meeting academic challenges. Faculty foster a learning environment that ensures accessibility of content for students of all abilities. All individuals are welcomed into a learning community that values its members and treats them fairly. You are able to register for these courses and earn PD credit within Workday’s MyLearning.
ALT055 Creating Accessible Documents
The rapid increase of online, D2L enhancement, and synchronous classrooms has highlighted the need for faculty to ensure their course materials are accessible and usable by many different types of learners and students.
In this course, participants will explore technology tools provided by the college or available on the internet. These tools are designed to ensure that documents shared with students are accessible to learners facing unique challenges. The course will specifically concentrate on enhancing accessibility of Word, PDF, and other document formats for users of screen readers and other adaptive technologies.
ALT063 Brainfuse Overview
Brainfuse is the college’s new online tutoring platform that will complement the on-campus tutoring services provided to our students.
In this self-paced course, faculty and staff will be introduced to Brainfuse and explore ways the tool supports student success.
ETP008 Teaching and Retaining Underprepared Students
Faculty often ponder over how to reach and retain students who are under-prepared for the rigors of college courses.
In this course, educators will be introduced to strategies they can use in their classrooms to help under-prepared students succeed in all modalities. Participants will learn about college resources and will work on integrating at least one strategy or technique in their classroom.
ETP051 Best Practices in UDL
This course introduces Universal Design for Learning (UDL) and its application across course design. UDL principles aim to provide curricula, learning environments, and instructional materials that are accessible and effective for a wide range of learners, including those with diverse learning styles, abilities, and backgrounds.
In this course, participants will learn to utilize UDL’s three core principles—Engagement, Representation, and Action & Expression—to craft inclusive, engaging, and equitable assessments. Faculty members will also create a UDL-based assessment as a capstone project, focusing on defining, constructing, providing evidence for, and implementing UDL principles.
ETP057 Best Practices in Classroom Management
ETP057 Best Practices in Classroom Management provides classroom management strategies for online and face-to-face courses.
In this course, participants will learn best practices to create an inclusive learning environment that supports all learners and improves their learning experience. Resources available at the college will also be discussed.
HWB004 Mindfulness in a Post-Pandemic Classroom
Mindfulness is an evidence-based approach to self-care and supports the mental, physical, and emotional health of those who practice it. Its efficacy has been well documented in medicine, psychiatry, and neuroscience research. In an academic setting, a few minutes of mindfulness can ground both teacher and student and prepare them for a supportive learning environment that fosters concentration and connection.
In this course, participants will be introduced to ways of incorporating mindfulness and contemplative practice into the classroom.
HWB015 Finding My Why
In this course, participants will delve into aligning their passions, mission, goals, and ideas with their purpose.