Academy for Teaching Transformation
Originally designed to support new faculty and instructional staff members at Montgomery College, the Academy for Teaching Transformation is now open to all full-time and part-time faculty, and all instructional staff.
The Academy covers various topics essential for effective instruction and is taught by MC faculty and staff who bridge the gap between theory and practice. This approach supports a systemic effort to bring about change in the classroom practices of faculty and instructional staff by exploring attitudes and beliefs and the intended learning outcomes of the students they serve (Guskey, 2002).
Through a series of three interconnected sessions, each Academy program is designed to provide opportunities for faculty and instructional staff to become actively involved in meaningful discussions, content planning, and learning activities that support collaboration, problem-solving, and knowledge sharing (Garet, Porter, Desimone, Birman, Yoon, 2001).
Upon successful completion of the Academy, participants are awarded professional development credit.
Watch the Academy for Teaching Transformation information video with Dr. Carolien Annink to learn more about the program.
Information Video
NEW! ACADEMY FOR TEACHING AND LEARNING BADGE: TEACHING ESSENTIALS: INNOVATION AND TRANSFORMATION
Since the spring of 2022, ELITE has attached a formally recognized Montgomery College badge, also called a micro-credential, to the completion of selected workshop series in The Academy for Teaching Transformation.
To earn the Teaching Essentials: Innovation and Transformation badge, participants partake in the three interconnected workshops that comprise the Academy and fulfill extra assignments, resulting in a portfolio-style document. The document reflects the participant’s intense involvement in bringing the pedagogical principles discussed in the three interconnected workshops into practice. A portfolio-style deliverable reflects the badge earner’s work in designing and implementing teaching innovation based on the Academy topic. The portfolio consists of a reflection journal, a description of the stages in a Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) process, and an annotated lesson plan.
A selected Academy workshop series will have this badge option available every fall and spring semester. Please see the FAQs page to learn more about what earning a badge entails at Montgomery College.
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