Academy for Teaching Transformation
The Academy for Teaching Transformation offers a valuable professional development opportunity tailored for MC faculty and instructional staff. Through a series of three interrelated sessions, participants will engage in meaningful dialogue, sharing their classroom experiences while exploring best practices in college teaching and learning. This collaborative environment fosters deeper insights into effective teaching strategies, equipping participants with enhanced tools to support increased student engagement and success.
We invite you to participate in this collaborative journey to advance your teaching practices and meaningfully impact student outcomes.
Participants are awarded professional development credit upon completing all three sessions of the Academy series. 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 instructional staff.
Classroom Assessment Techniques
Fridays from 2-4 PM
- Session 1: October 18
- Session 2: November 15
- Session 3: December 13
Instructor: Dr. Joan Naake
Description: This series explores informal techniques for assessing student learning that faculty can immediately implement in their courses. In order to enhance student success, these techniques enable faculty to gain feedback on what, how much, and how well students are learning before a test. These techniques aim to bridge the gap between what students are learning and what faculty are teaching. Finally, the techniques are not time-consuming, are not threatening, and are very simple to implement. This seminar is based on the text: “Classroom Assessment Techniques: A Handbook for College Teachers” by Pat Cross and Tom Angelo, which participants will receive.
Outcomes: Upon completion, participants will be able to:
- Implement classroom assessment techniques that bridge the gap between the teacher’s instruction and the students’ learning
- Assess what, how much, and how well each student has learned
- Assess the learning skills and motivational skills of the students
- Reflect on the instructional skills of the instructor
Teaching and Learning in the 21st Century
Fridays from 2-4 PM
- Session 1: October 11
- Session 2: November 8
- Session 3: December 6
Instructor: Gloria Barron
Description: This series will support faculties’ course development, instruction, and assessment that targets four essential digital-age learning objectives: critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration. Participants will learn about and apply the Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge (TPACK) framework and SAMR Model to design technology-rich learning activities/learning units for use in their professional settings.
Outcomes: Upon completion, participants will be able to:
- Describe four elements that support learning in today’s digital age—critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration— and analyze the interdependence of each element in support of knowledge acquisition
- Analyze the relationship between instructors’ understanding of technological, pedagogical, content knowledge, and lesson enhancement and transformation.
- Explain how TPACK and SAMR support the development of critical thinking, creativity, communication, and collaboration among learners.
- Design a lesson and activities that integrate the practical use of technology into a broader educational setting.
Use the link above, or log in to your MyMC and click the Workday card. Then click on the MC Learns icon. Click Menu, then select Learning>Discover>Browse Learning. Enter Academy for Teaching Transformation. Press the Search button and select Enroll.
For more information, please get in touch with Gloria Barron, Academy Coordinator, at gloria.barron@montgomerycollege.edu.
