WTCS Professional Development Team

 Mid-State Technical College, October 8, 2003

 Agenda

 In Attendance: 

Jim Begotka, Beth Hennes, Sue Zittlow, Andrea Schullo, Jan Adelman, Lynn Retzak, Lois Slattery, Al Javoroski, Margaret Brunn, Beth Kost, Susan Allen Davis, Wm. Patrick Barlow, Lori Reiman, Sharon Spangberg,

Meeting Notes

Session 1: Collaboration: (Beth and Andrea)

 Lakers: NWTC, LTC, Morraine Park, Fox Valley

• Certification Courses –
  • #51 Philosophy of VTAE online
  • 30 participants, 4 facilitators – opportunities for different perspectives.
  • Hybrid model online with discussion board and face-to-face meetings on home campus.
  • Completion rate concerns (during the summer, open ended)
• Meet on Common Grounds – respect in the workplace – LTC offering that NWTC staff attended at no cost
• Schedules for different certification courses on the web site
• Tech training modules – software – Camtasia, Robodemo – basic computer usage, Word, Excel. Audio and video components. Future modules MS Office Suite, Lotus Notes, People Soft.

SWTC, Madison, Milwaukee, Western

·        In-service activities/speakers

·        PeopleSoft consortium

·        Madison hosting Blackboard courses

 Rolling Rivers: WITC, CVTC, Nicolet, NTC, Midstate

·        Certification Courses

o       #51 ITV, one f2f

o       #55 online

·        Brain-based conference at NTC

·        Midstate staff attend NTC certification courses

·        Sharing of presenter information – phone collaborations

·        In the works – David Meier on Nov 7

·        In the works - northern Great Support Staff Retreat (David Goetschell)

·        Brain based learning conference at NTC- March & Jun

·        “Facilitating the Future” available each summer at WITC

·        Internet qualification series in March – Terry Langan (from FVTC) at NTC

MSTC and NWTC collaboration for PT 10-hr certification.

Session 2:  Governance Structure:  (Jan Adelman & Jim B.)

Handout from Jan; Picking up from DELTA conference in April 2003

What does this group expect from its champions?

• Communication, in the spirit of collaboration???

Note:  There is a group that is meeting in Madison (Dennis James MATC) collaboration for Bb & Faculty Development Centers, etc.) Web site – WTCS Prof Dev should connect to this.  To Do:  Patrick to follow up at MATC, Mad-Town

Much of the responsibility for continuing this professional development effort should be assumed by each district and representative participating in WTCS Prof Dev team.

What about WTCSB Advocate? – Sharon, no news from state other than posting of a position. Possible re-org to impact position and responsibilities (different from Jeff’s role)

What did we originally intend from state?  Advocacy was the answer from the group.

What group would be next champions?  Susan Allen Davis (SWTC), Wm Patrick Barlow (MATC) present not attending, but included as next championing group (MATC-Milw, Waukesha, Gateway, Blackhawk) Volunteered

• Responsibilities: Very least, plan next all team meeting (or tap into DELTA if occurring in future)
• Other duties captured in Green handout from 10/8/03 meeting
• WTCN (ITV) Next champions might utilize this technology to meet and plan for ALL Team meetings (Friday afternoons work very well in terms of availability of ITV rooms across districts)
• Content for next All Team meeting should be decided at end of today’s meeting to give direction for next planners.  Hot Topics is helpful to determine.

Five Hottest Topics “Share Sessions”

 Learning Objects – Susan Davis Allen – FIPSE – how to teach courses online

Certification:

Sharon Spangberg - #58 online – polling of district certification need and if online

Positive interest to make it a go – multiple facilitators

State Certification Committee – blessing the assessment of sign off for individuals to receive certification requirement

 Margaret Brunn – FVTC Online model for Assessment but not equivalent to Ed Eval. Would need additional work to meet Ed Eval.  Does contain Learning Objects.  CVTC does have file online

Patrick Barlow – will be utilizing the online model for an instructor who needs Ed Eval right now.  The information online will be supplemented.

 Jim Begotka – need to collaborate on Accelerated Learning and Ed Diversity in an online format

 Lynn Retzak – need to expose faculty to ITV environment

Lois – Utilize ITV to expose faculty by department

Al Javorski – need 10-hour certification for adjunct.  Part-time approval from State.  Lots of courses are substituted for true Certification courses.

State competencies are modularized to assist in meeting the 10-hour need.

 Patrick Barlow – tracking of certification information.  Modularized courses – problem with individuals registering for just a particular module – but not in sequence.

Some colleges attempting to guide faculty to take full 2-credit course.

Jim Begotka – give 1 CEU instead of credit for full 2-credit course

Training and Development Center

Susan Davis Allen – Faculty Innovation Center based off grant – bringing in new technology and online course development along with training.

Concern – overlap of ties to Faculty Innovation Center and Professional Development

WIDS group – does that tie as well?

Best Practice – One office location that allows for open communication

Have group technology trainings ongoing through the year

Lois Slattery – one-page survey regarding needs of all staff at all locations.  The survey encompassed skill levels, comfort levels, and if want training on technology.  Also on  the survey is what do staff prefer for learning – workshops, one-hour session, self-experiment, etc.

Trade specific software – (not well received)

Topics on new technology – give CECs for 4-hour sessions.

Also asked demographic information to see how to gage what, where, position, age, location.

Margaret Brunn – Zoomerang survey for technology needs.  Also looking at leadership survey.

Al Javorski uses Zoomerang to evaluate professional development

Collaboration:

Sue Zittlow – tech modules

SkillSoft - Lori Riemann uses for computer training

HelpDesk cards (HelpDeskcards.com) – Linux, Red Hat, Office suite, $500 for CD and has available on the Intranet.

Patrick – pedagogy or just technology?

Hot Topics in Professional Development –

Achieve Global creates training modules – Jan does one per month

Get training schedules on the website for Professional Development

Motivation: get people to come to the training.

Survey staff, teaching technology, now:  why don’t they come?  They do not see the need.  We do not have any standards for students and instructors.

ISTE, NETS, Washington State has standards.

Theme days at Madison – not professional development days.  All staff not just faculty.  Motivated by Second City coming in to deal with issues regarding the theme of the year – agent for change.

Professional Development Assessment Planning –

Andrea – ROI – how does what we do improve learning?  We already ask the smiley faces assessment.  How do we gather information?

Should be an ongoing assessment and a needs assessment.

We need outcomes first.

Jan Adelman – Developed staff qualities and abilities. Also included are examples of how to evaluate.  Employee planning and reviewing is going to be redone.

Have created self-eval on staff qualities and abilities.  Did receive 50%+ surveys back.  Surveyed the supervisors to receive feedback on employees as well.

How track professional development goals? 

HR dept received it and put it into the employee staff.

Pathlore and PeopleSoft 8.0 have tracking mechanism.

Outcomes assessment seminar – Susan Davis Allen – her knowledge received:  every area needs outcomes and assessments for all areas/functioning areas of the college.  Need to be from the bottom-up rather than top-down.

For tracking – the minutes will show that the outcomes are being addressed.

Idea – best practices discussed at every session regarding organizational assessment.

There is a state-wide learning assessment group.

Learning Objects for Professional Development

Beth Hennes – need for HR and interview teams:  What is an effective way to teach staff how to do an interview, how to review applications, how to choose the interview team?  Using Producer to do snip-its for training.

Carol Bartlett at FVTC is starting to create Learning Objects for Professional Development.

Do we want to set standards for our learning objects?

Lori Reimann – ½ day session on learning SWISH and how to use in the classroom.  Participants received the software.

Website for Learning objects:  www.wisc-online.org

NWTC:  online.nwtc.edu/learning_objects

Afternoon Topics:  Training Center (Professional Development) and Certification

April session:  Hot topic - assessment

  Hot Topics Breakout Small Group Discussion:

Certification

Al Javoroski, Beth Kost, Lynn Retzak, Jim Begotka, Sharon Spangberg,

Andrea Schullo willing to participate in developing

Certification at MSTC – Cert Offficer in HR.  Al coordinates 50 (Ind. Study), 52  & 54 (F2F 4 hour blocks, 7 nights). Facilitators paid. Al facilitates activities as well. Adjunct creating greatest demand. No charge to participants. Many go through Stout. Demand – typical enrollment is 8-18 (50, 52, 54) ~100 FT Faculty, ~300 Adjunct.  Closed campus, faculty must do outside of teaching hours.

When did the transition occur where districts started delivering certification activities? 1993 Admin Code.  What obligation do the districts have in offering options to our faculty to meet certification, versus UW? 

Beth from Nicolet – handout on NTC’s approach – Integration with new faculty “New Teacher Induction Program”.  Part of workload. 2 hrs/week/semester.

Logistics: How do new faculty have common time. Deans would schedule accordingly.  Not realistic at other schools (LTC, MSTC & NWTC). 

http://online.nwtc.edu/instructors/jbegotka/   Web page to support #52

http://www.mstc.edu/instructor/AJavor/Certification/CourseSchedule.htm  Al Javoroski’s web site with materials to support #52, #50, #54

Work collaboratively (Nicolet, MSTC, NWTC & LTC) to create an online individualized option for Ed Eval.  Set meeting. Jim to follow-up by email with to set meeting date, time and location.  End Date January 2004.

Step1: Look at the competencies from state to look for divisions into modules Step 2: Lay out modules per state model of competencies and standards

Professional Development & Training Centers

 Discussed what each person does.

Topics and format to include in the WTCS Prof Dev site:

• Teaching and Learning
• Leadership
• Advertising
• Diversity
• Assessment
• Customer Service
• Certification
• Learning Objects (to support professional development)

To Do’s:

• Each college Submit at least 5 resources in any of the topic areas listed above to be posted and shared on the web site by Nov. 15
• Each college must inform NWTC when to take materials off of the website.
• Post all of your professional development events open to other colleges for participation
• Post a list of topic areas you are willing to be a resources for i.e. Jan Adelman – Facilitator
• Post staff development calendar, operational calendar, in-service agendas – whatever gives the seasonal/rotational events at your respective colleges
• If you would like to post your events, even if not open to other college’s, please post and indicate “Not Open to other Colleges” – at least serves as an idea source for others involved in planning professional development, etc.
• Indicate resources versus examples

Group tried to look at how staff (including faculty) development is structured at colleges: Activity – group will complete a survey

• Susan Allen Davis will design a template; due Nov 15
  • Template will address and identify structure of professional development
  • Template will also look at outcomes and measures to assess professional development at your college
  • Group will come back together and analyze a standard approach to measures and assessment for professional development within the WTCS.  This will be a starting point, not all inclusive, and will be based on the common areas identified in the survey results.

Web Site and Blackboard Course Site: (Sue Zittlow and Jim Begotka)

Web Site for the WTCS Professional Development Group is:  http://online.nwtc.edu/stateprofdev

• All members are encouraged to register for the List Serv - see last button on left side of home page to proceed to instructions

• It was decided the web site will remain as our main platform for communication and repository for materials relating to the team's efforts.

• Contact Sue Zittlow or Jim Begotka at NWTC for maintenance and items to add to the site.

Discussion on utilization of NWTC Blackboard course site for WTCS Prof Dev team:  Jim B. Will update Bb user list and email newbies instructions for accessing NWTC course site

• The course site will only be used for specific projects and collaborations, not as the main platform to support the team overall.
• Two projects who will use the site are: Ed Eval group and Susan Allen Davis to create and share the template her group will be creating

Next Steps:

1. Report out on assignments from October 8 meeting To Do’s
2. Theme for next meeting = Assessment. What types of assessments will this team adopt (outcome-based)
3. Next steps for certification collaborations (new collaborations)

Next meeting timeframe:  April, whether DELTA continues/or not.  New Champions to plan (Region 3).  Spring Breaks, 1^st week DOES NOT work. April 22^nd – Thursday.  Madison good possibility.

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