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

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Overview

• Welcome, introductions• MnSCU overview• CTL resources

– System-level– Campus

• Teaching and learning challenges / solutions

• Career development

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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

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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

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CTL Faculty Development Teams

Campus Faculty Development Team1 at every campus!

Resources

Programming

Consulting & Leadership

Support from MnSCU CTL

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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

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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

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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

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Enough about us…

Faculty Responsibilities

Teaching Scholarship Service

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But you need not juggle…

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Lay a foundation…and build

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Teaching

• Course planning• Classroom teaching• Advising

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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

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Here are your strategies!

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Scholarship

• Read• Confer with colleagues• Conduct research

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Service

• Community service • Campus service• Professional service• Service to students• Helping graduates with employment, transfer, etc.

• Advising student organizations

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How Should Your Time Look?

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Time : Priorities

Teaching Research/Scholarship/Prof Dev

Service

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How Does Your Time Look?

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Balance!168 hours a week

Teaching Research/Scholarship/Prof Dev

Service Personal

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How Should Your Time Look?

Time : Priorities Success

Teaching Research/Scholarship/Prof Dev

Service Personal

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We’re here for you

CTL

http://www.ctl.mnscu.edu

651-649-5741