Professional Development
When we embark on teaching at SBCC, we are asked to continue growing and learning in order to benefit our students. Regardless of how many years you have been teaching, we can always learn something more. Isn't that something we try and impress upon our students? Aside from inherit benefit of learning, we also have obligations as part of our employment contract.
Outline of professional development requirements:
Finding campus opportunities for professional development are posted in our Flex Dashboard. This is where the bi-annual in-service workshops are listed and also workshops offered by others on campus such as the Faculty Resource Center (FRC). This link is also avilable in the campus portal under the Faculty->Resources menu.
Another place to discover professional development opportunities is through the Vision Resource Center provided by the Chancelor's Office. A guide for using and discovering resources has been created for you. A great place to get started in VRC is by selecting the Learning->Workshop Calendar menu.
Finally, we'd like to offer a list of high-quality conferences for just about any discipline. If you additional suggestions for us to include, please send an email to Justina Buller, chair of Committee on Faculty Resources.
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- Online Teaching Conference
- Strengthening Student Success Conference
- NCORE (National Conference on Race and Ethnicity)
- California Acceleration Project and annual conference, focused on Math an English with various events throughout the year. (the website for the 4th conference is down right now)
- Career Ladders Project
- ACTLA (Association of Colleges Teaching and Learning Association) National conference on tutoring and learning ($100 online in 2021), Pre-conference workshops, tutoring sessions on different themes and strands.
- CCCCs (Conference on College Composition and Communication) for people in English
- Young Rhetoricians Conference for people in English
- Grace Hopper Conference for Women in Technology - Computer Science/Engineering/Math/STEM
- UCSB/KITP Teachers’ Conference - amazing 1-day annual conference for Physics/Astronomy and related STEM-fields and it’s at UCSB!
- Attend a POGIL (Process Oriented Guided Inquiry Learning) workshop, it applies to all sciences.
- CAA (College Art Association)