Teaching pairs
Partner up with a colleague to improve your online (no scheduled meetings) or online (scheduled meetings) course through a peer observation process, reflection and collegial sharing. Online Learning will set up a framework for this professional development activity focused on faculty sharing in the form of Teaching Pairs. Come away with a new faculty colleague and new strategies to consider implementing in your course. Workshop cohorts are limited to 10 participants.
The focus will be on What Works Well in Online Teaching for online (no scheduled meetings) courses and our Multimodality Checklist for multimodality courses (online with scheduled meetings).
Course requirements
Courses must be an online (no scheduled meetings) or a combined modality course with a significant asynchronous online component using D2L Brightspace. (Courses used for the multimodality focus must be scheduled as a combined modality course with a significant asynchronous online component. Courses should be organized into modules in D2L, with each module containing HTML content pages, interactive online activities, and assessments.)
Learning Outcomes
- Identify new strategies to consider implementing in your online (no scheduled meetings) or multimodality course (online with scheduled meetings) through a peer faculty sharing experience to further support active learning, engaging students in meaningful interaction, ensuring accessibility and equity, and empowering students to achieve the learning outcomes.
- Identify and apply strategies found in the Multimodality Checklist or the What Works Well in Online Teaching to your course.
- Review skills and strategies in the utilization of Brightspace and PCC supported tools and applications.
You do not need to sign up with a partner. Cross-discipline collaboration is encouraged, and we can pair you up with another instructor. Participation involves 3 required Zoom sessions over a period of 4 weeks with a time commitment of 10-12 hours. Completion will include a stipend $300 for PT & FT faculty and count toward the refresher training.
Assessment
Completion of this workshop requires an asynchronous discussion and submitting the teaching pairs worksheet, complete with information about the observation of a partner’s course, a self-reflection about strategies learned from the partner’s observation, and a plan for future course improvements based on strategies learned during the partner and group experience.
Registration details
- If you are interested, please let us know. Dean approval is required.
We hope you’ll consider joining this learning experience. For any follow-up questions, please contact Paul Montone, paul.montone@pcc.edu, Debbie Austin,?debra.austin@pcc.edu, or Vicki Jeffries-Bilton, vicki.jeffries@pcc.edu