Ventura College
Professional Development Calendar Fall 2016
(Workshops are subject to change. Please check VC Master Calendar and VCCCD Portal Announcement for updates.)
Write your course and program workshops!!! (Ryan Petitfils)
These new workshops are designed for Ventura College faculty course authors to get their courses and programs written and submitted, with expert help available from the curriculum specialists at Ventura College. PCs will be available for your use.
If you attend the “Write your course and program workshops,” you will also be able to get a technical review of your courses/programs on the spot and be given PRIORITY for their courses to appear on Curriculum Committee agendas in a significantly quicker time frame. Join Ryan Petitfils, Curriculum Technical Review Chair to learn more. Workshops will be held in SCI-226
Dates:September 9,9:30 am – 11am, September 30, 1:00pm – 2:30pm,
October 7, 1:00pm – 2:30 pm, October 21, 1:00 pm – 2:30pm, November 4, 1:00 pm – 2:30pm,
December 2, 1:00 pm- 2:30pm
CPR Training (Kelly Neel, RN)
Join nursing instructor, Kelly Neel, RN, and learn CPR! You can either attend for knowledge or for certification. Kelly will cover both adult CPR and choking and the use of the AED (the first 2.5 hours) and child/infant CPR (the last 1.5 hours). American heart Association Heartsaver CPR will be taught, if you'd like to attend, please reserve a space by contacting Kelly Neel at ext 1305 or . This training is for faculty and staff not students. Class limit is 9. If less than 4 people sign up the class will be cancelled.
Dates: September 16, 1:00 pm – 5:00pm in HSC 211, October 26, 8:00 am – 12:00pm in HSC 211, November 7, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm in HSC 101
Read & Write Gold and Dragon (Steve Turner)
Enhance student learning using Adaptive Technology! Join Steve Turner for Assistive Technology Training at the Ventura College Santa Paula Learning Resource Center. Steve will provide an overview of programs such as Inspiration, Dragon, and Read and Write Gold, as well as free apps, which feature voice recognition, multi-sensory screen readers, idea mapping, proofreading assistance, and other learning tools. Workshop will be held at Ventura College Santa Paula Campus
Wednesday, September 28, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm
Successfully Navigating Culture Shock (Joanne Deck)
Anyone changing environments, such as to a new school, workplace, or region, commonly experiences culture shock. Through example and self-reflection, participants will recognize when culture shock occurs and understand its four stages. They’ll explore effective methods for managing the discomfort and ultimately thriving in the new environment. Participants will have the opportunity to examine their own experiences with culture change and/or look at how they could support a new staff member or student acclimate successfully. Campus Center Conference Room.
Thursday, October 6, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Simplify Assessments (Debbie Newcomb, Andrea Horigan)
Learn from the experts to simplify your assessments. Workshop will be held in MCE 340.
Friday, October 14, 9:00 am – 10:30 am
Web Enhanced Training (Sharon Oxford, Matthew Moore)
Canvas trainings to web enhance your class are coming this Fall 2016. While web enhanced courses are not distance education courses, they are a great start in using the learning management system to design activities that you might use one day in an online and/or hybrid course.
Wednesday, October 19, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Live LRC 136 Training Studio
Thursday, October 27, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, Web Conference Session
Tuesday, November 8, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm, Live LRC 136 Training Studio
Wednesday, November 16, 3:30 pm – 4:30 pm, Web Conference Session
What English Teachers Do with Their Students in the Sandbox (Sumita Lall, Heather Aguailar)
In his book, Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination, and Invigorates the Soul, Stuart Brown suggests that “Play is a state of mind, rather than an activity. . . an absorbing, apparently purposeless activity that provides enjoyment and a suspension of self-consciousness and sense of time. It is also self-motivating and makes you want to do it again” (60). Part of what makes teaching at a community college so exciting is our shared goal to tap into our students’ sense of play – as this instinct to play could potentially be a source of deep learning, enthusiastic engagement, and recognition of the wide range of strengths our students bring with them into our classrooms – but by the time our students reach us, we often notice the challenge of setting up the right conditions to induce the proper emotional state for play to happen. This workshop is intended to provide a platform for sharing ways to increase “play” in our classrooms, using as a starting point two activities that come from an English composition classroom wherein teachers have discovered that safe and playful environments engage a wider range of students to feel internally motivated
to listen and interact with each other and the teacher. We’ve learned that not everyone needs to feel enthusiastic about play, but everyone can learn by doing a playful activity.MCW 312
Friday, October 21, 10:00 am – 11:00 am
How Surveyors Apply Mathematics and Trigonometry
Ventura County Surveyor's Office will give a presentation on how surveyors apply mathematics and trigonometry. Will be held in the ASC Outside Classroom.
Friday, October 21, 11:30 am – 12:30 pm
How Autism Can Improve Your Classroom
Dr. Tom Dalton, Dr. Leah Silverman and Steve Turner will be presenting on the strengths that students with Autism can bring to the classroom. They will focus on how instructors can utilize these strengths and work through various scenarios that have taken place on campus. These techniques can be readily applied by all who attend.LRC 128.
Wednesday, October 26, 3:00 pm – 4:00 pm
Strategies for Managing Paper Load for Instructors Who Teach Writing in their Classroom (John Guelcher)
Requiring students to write in your class does not require that you mortgage your weekends reading and grading those papers. John Guelcher will discuss tried and true strategies that allow students to benefit from using writing to more deeply investigate the subject you are teaching, while allowing you to still have a life outside of your normal work hours. Alternative strategies for commenting on papers will be discussed as well as some time saving techniques when you are assessing student writing.MCW 312
Thursday, October 27, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Enhancing Reading Skills Using Kurzwell 3000 & Firefly (Stacey Kayden)
Through this one-day workshop participants will learn how Kurzweil 3000 and Firefly can be used to help DSPS students in mainstream classes improve reading skills via text-to-speech support and follow instructor embedded strategies. Participants will also learn how Kurzweil can be used to help students edit writing assignments by hearing what they’ve written. Lastly, DSPS staff will identify the difference between Kurzweil 3000 and Firefly and how to provide students and teachers home access. The morning session of the training will be instructional, the afternoon primarily hands-on. Participants will be encouraged to work in groups to apply what they’ve learned to their own reading assignments. The hosting college will digitize one chapter of participating instructors’ books for use during training. LRC 130
Friday, October 28, 9:00 am – 12:00 pm
How to Handle the Troubling Student (Mary Jones)
Wondering what to do with thedifficult, concerning student? Attend this presentationand you will learn how to effectively use the BICT process to help you keep your classroom experience as stress free as possible. MCW 312
Wednesday, November 8, 9:00 am – 10:00 am
First Aid Training (Kelly Neel, RN)
Gives you the information and the skills you need to help adults and children during many emergency situations. Prepare for the unexpected with first aid training. Class size limit is 12. HSC 101
Wednesday, November 9, 8:00 am – 11:30 am
Easy Graphic Design (Janeene Nagaoka, Dina Pielaet)
Janeene and Dina will share some secrets that will enable you to produce some stunning, yet simple to create, designs. Who'll also share some FREE online resources for photos and graphic elements. Let us empower you to create effective marketing and graphics. MCE 125
Wednesday, November 16, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Active Shooter on Campus – A Classroom Strategy (Larry Reynosa)
The intention of the film is to raise the possibility of surviving an "Active Shooter" that might breach a classroom and what a teacher can do in order to save their own life, as well as, the lives of their students. This film has been created as an instructional training film that can be used by any teacher in order to create a hands-on training session in regards to surviving an active shooter situation. If used in conjunction with the current film that is currently on our VC website, I believe teachers around the country could very well save lives. In addition to sharing his film, Mr. Reynosa will also share guidelines for dealing with active shooters on a campus and then invite participants to experience a hands-on training session near the end of the workshop. This should be a very informative and exciting workshop to say the least! Workshop will be held in ASC 140
Wednesday, November 16, 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
SLO Assessments in Canvas (Debbie Newcomb, Andrea Horigan)
Learn how to incorporate SLO Assessments in our new learning management system. Workshop will be held in MCE 340.
Friday, November 18, 9:00 am – 10:30 am