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Slide 1The Minnesota State Colleges and Universities system is an Equal Opportunity employer and educator.
Welcome to MnSCU
Center for Teaching and Learning
Realizing Student Potential · ITeach
Minneapolis Community & Technical College
February 27, 2010
http://slideshare.net/lynda.milne
Slide 2
Overview
• Welcome, introductions• MnSCU overview• CTL resources
– System-level– Campus
• Teaching and learning challenges / solutions
• Career development
Slide 3
What is MnSCU?
• 5th-largest state higher ed system
• Created in 1995 by state law
• Merged state university & CC systems
• Incorporated former voc-ed system
• Find all the facts at:
About the System
• Find faculty experts at:
Faculty Experts & Media Guide
Slide 4
What is MnSCU (part 2)?
• 54 campuses, 46 communities
• 250,000 credit students
• 34,000 grads each year
• 151,000 customized training clients
• 70,000+ online students
• 87% of grads get jobs in their fields
• 82% of grads stay in Minnesota
Slide 5
What is MnSCU?We educate, every year:
• 52% of Minnesota’s teachers.
• 82 % of new nursing graduates.
• 86 % of law enforcement officers.
• 87 % of new graduates in the construction trades.
• 92 % of new mechanics graduates.
• 42 % of new business graduates.
• 9,000 firefighters and emergency first responders
Slide 7
Technical Colleges
• 7 institutions
• 950 F/T Faculty
• Technical colleges offer vocational training and education to prepare students for skilled occupations that do not require a baccalaureate degree
Slide 8
Community Colleges
• 5 institutions
• 1,300 F/T Faculty
• Lower division instruction in academic programs, occupational programs in which all credits earned will be accepted for transfer to a baccalaureate degree in the same field of study, and remedial studies, for students transferring to baccalaureate institutions and for those seeking associate degrees
Slide 9
Consolidated C/T Colleges
• 13 institutions
• 3000 F/T Faculty
• The same types of instruction, programs, certificates, diplomas, and degrees as the technical colleges and community colleges offer
Slide 10
State Universities
• 7 institutions
• 2,500 F/T Faculty
• Undergraduate and graduate instruction through the master's degree [and now applied doctorates], including specialist certificates, in the liberal arts and sciences and professional education
Office of the Chancellor
Slide 12
Office of the ChancellorWhat goes on there?
• Direct services to campuses
• Common IT services– D2L, ISRS, others
• Teaching and learning support
• Credit transfer coordination
• Labor contracts
• Presidential searches, reviews
• Policy
• Institutional research & data collection
• Interaction with legislature
Slide 13
MnSCU for You: Resources for Faculty
• Academic Affairs
• DARS/u-select Degree Audit/Transfer System
• CAS Course Applicability System
• EFolio Minnesota
• ISEEK
• College Faculty Credentialing
• http://tinyurl.com/credentialing
Slide 14
Center for Teaching & Learning
• Mission: To provide systemwide leadership to promote and support collaborative professional development for all system faculty
• Purpose: To improve student learning and teaching effectiveness by serving as a catalyst for faculty collaboration and institutional improvement.
Slide 15
CTL’s Program Areas
• Leadership development– Develop and support campus
leadership in faculty development
• Instructional development– Grant funds for innovation
– Discipline workshops on curriculum, instruction
– Web resources on teaching
• Professional development– Provide learning opportunities
online and in-person that serve faculty’s common needs
– Conferences for presentation of best practices, SoTL outcomes
Slide 16
Who’s Who at CTL
• Martin Springborg– Fine Arts
– Community Colleges
• Yvonne Shafer– Information Management Systems
– Entrepreneurship, CTE
• Zala Fashant– Education, Math, Fine Arts
– STEM, CTE
• Thomas Wortman– Higher Education, Communications
– State Universities
• Lynda Milne– Higher Education, Psychology, English
Slide 17
CTL Faculty Development Teams
Campus Faculty Development Team1 at every campus!
Resources
Programming
Consulting & Leadership
Support from MnSCU CTL
Slide 18
CTL Grants
• Promote change, encourage resource development, affect student learning
• Amounts vary by year• Instructional development• Individual projects, teams
preferred• Coordination with institutional
goals• Peer-reviewed
Slide 19
CTL Educational Opportunities• One annual conference
– Realizing Student Potential ● ITeach
• Discipline/program workshops– 12+ per year: transfer, teaching themes,
faculty-proposed
• PKAL-MnSCU Partnership Workshops – 4 to 6 per year: pedagogy-focused,
intensive day-long workshops in STEM
• New faculty orientation– Orientation to system, faculty
roles and responsibilities– Login: ctlguest Password: ctlguest
• ITeach Center Online– Teaching Resource
Center
Slide 20
CTL Educational OpportunitiesCourses
CTL Faculty Lodge
Tutorials19 tutorials, self-paced, 24/7 online
Webinars At least 6 new per semester –
at no cost! Presented by
system faculty and staff
Webinar Archives 50 archived webinars on teaching & learning topics
Credentialing CoursesCTL Philosophy of Teaching CourseCredentialing Courses
• Southwest Minnesota State University• Bemidji State University• University of Minnesota
Slide 21
Enough about us…
Faculty Responsibilities
Teaching Scholarship Service
Slide 22
But you need not juggle…
Slide 23
Lay a foundation…and build
Slide 24
Teaching
• Course planning• Classroom teaching• Advising
Slide 26
Teaching and Learning Challenges & Solutions
Come up with 1 – 3 creative
strategies that have helped you
and/or could help you adjust and
develop in teaching and
classroom life.
accountability accreditation achievement active learning
assessment classroom collaboration competencies
computer critical thinking culture curriculum design
development diversity education elearning engagement
evaluation grading hybrid instructional design language
leadership learning literacy motivation needs online learning
outcomes pedagogy problem solving research rubrics
students teaching technology thinking web2.0 writing
Slide 27
Here are your strategies!
Slide 28
Scholarship
• Read• Confer with colleagues• Conduct research
Slide 30
Service
• Community service • Campus service• Professional service• Service to students• Helping graduates with employment, transfer, etc.
• Advising student organizations
Slide 31
How Should Your Time Look?
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Time : Priorities
Teaching Research/Scholarship/Prof Dev
Service
Slide 32
How Does Your Time Look?
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Balance!168 hours a week
Teaching Research/Scholarship/Prof Dev
Service Personal
Slide 33
How Should Your Time Look?
Time : Priorities Success
Teaching Research/Scholarship/Prof Dev
Service Personal
Slide 34
We’re here for you
CTL
http://www.ctl.mnscu.edu
651-649-5741