Faculty & Staff
Teaching Development
Salem State College offers a large variety of faculty development opportunities- everything from one-shot, open discussions to highly structured year-long programs. Please spend a few minutes exploring the opportunities and resources available to you, and do not hesitate to contact anyone listed on these pages with questions. Suggestions are welcome!
Awareness Raising, One-Day Events
Faculty Rountables
The Office of Academic Affairs sponsors an open discussion on a hot topic in higher education and entices you with luscious desserts to sweeten the discussion. Watch your e-mail and the campus calendar for announcements. You will be sent an short article to read before the events. Come join your colleagues from around the school for a lively debate.
Reading Circles
The Council for Teaching and Learning sponsor several reading circles each semester. Reading circles are announced and books distributed the beginning of each semester. Books pertain to teaching, learning, scholarship and balancing life issues as a faculty member. Contact the CTL for details, suggestions and to get involved.
Workshops
Our workshops are almost always hands-on with best-practices and examples that can be applied to your teaching, scholarship and advising activities right away. We explore new technologies, active learning techniques, course design, assessment, collaborative learning, and community building activities. Please contact CTL or CTI if there is a workshop you would like to propose. http://tinyurl.com/ctisignup
Transformative, Long-Term Events
Institutes
The Center for Teaching Innovation (CTI) offers 3-4 intensive week-long programs each year in coordination with Informaton Technology Services (ITS). These institutes routinely receive rave reviews. Becuase of their popularity participants for these institutes are usually selected through an application proces that begins approximately 2 months prior to the institute.
Faculty-Learning Comunities (FLCs)
FLCs consist of a group of 5-10 faculty members pursuing independent projects in a supportive community exploring a common topic. SSC is currently supporting FLCs in Advising, The First-Year Experience and Intentional Learning Experiences through a grant by the Davis Educational Foundation.* A call for proposals for new FLCs will be announced in the Spring of 2010.
Program for Online & Hybrid Course Design
Whether you have never taught online or want to improve a course you have already developed, you will benefit from participation in this program. Everyone will complete a 4 week online minicourse in either online or hybrid course design. We will meet 4-5 times as a group during the semester and there are 3 required individual consultations with an instructional designer. (2 Sessions: September 21-December 18 & January 25-May 7)
Online Resources
Want to know what is going on at SSC for Faculty Developement without checking a website every day? You can join our Facebook page, follow cti_tweet, check your SSC e-mail for workshop updates each month or join the SSC Faculty-Resources wiki to help us maintain the online resources and get daily updates.
* Established by Stanton and Elisabeth Davis after Mr. Davis's retirement as chairman of Shaw's Supermarkets, Inc.