Professional Development Program

What's New? (and Coming!)

Photos and presentation handouts from the 2008 Professional Development Conference will soon be available on this site so you can catch up with sessions that you may have missed from the annual conference. Watch for a new "Conference Resources" tab on the left to access these materials. You'll especially want to look for photos from the President's Cup activities!

The Professional Development Team is looking ahead to the 2008-2009 academic year. Our planning calendar is as follows:

• Fall Focus, Monday, August 18, 2008, morning, Catonsville Campus [continental breakfast and box lunch included]
• CCBC Adjunct Winter Conference, Wednesday, January 28, 2009, evening, Essex Campus [dinner included]; snowdate is January 29th
• Annual all employee Professional Development Conference, Wednesday, May 27, 2009, full-day event, Catonsville Campus [lunch included]

Other CCBC professional development events planned by others include:

• Developmental Symposium, Tuesday, August 19, Essex Campus
• WID/AC Conference, Wednesday, August 20, Essex Campus
• Maryland Consortium on Adjunct Faculty Professional Development (MCAPD) statewide conference, Saturday, September 27, 2008, full-day event, Catonsville Campus, contact your dean if you wish to attend, for more information go to the MCAPD website [continental breakfast and box lunch included]
• Teaching and Learning Roundtable (TLR) Fair, Wednesday, January 14, 2009, Essex Campus; snowdate is January 21st

The Learning Opportunities for Faculty and Staff booklet has been updated as an online resource, organizing all available professional development options into one reference guide. See the "Learning Opportunities" tab on the left. This resource is a work-in-progress. If you have additional opportunities to list in this guide, please contact Judy Snyder or a member of the PDT.

The Professional Development Team currently is working to expand its offerings throughout the year. Please watch for opportunities to provide your ideas as we develop a more comprehensive program.

If there are additional features that you would like to see included on this website, please let us know.

Library Resources

Are you curious about theories about student learning? The following resources, available in each campus library, might be of value. [This list was compiled originally by the Education Subcommittee of the CCBC Council on Innovation and Student Learning (CISL), from which the Teaching and Learning Roundtable (TLR) has evolved.

Barr, Robert B, and Tagg, John. "From Teaching to Learning: New Paradigm for Undergraduate Education ". Change, Vol. 27, No.6, November/December 1995, pp.13-25.

Barr, Robert B. "Obstacles to Implementing the Learning Paradigm." ABOUT CAMPUS. September-October 1998. pp. 18-25.

Carter, Patricia, and Alfred, Richard. Reaching For The Future. Consortium for Community College Development. 1997.

Carter, Patricia, and Alfred, Richard. Breaking Out Of The Box. Consortium for Community College Development. 1996.

Boggs, George R. The Learning Paradigm. Community College Journal . Dec/Jan 1995-96, pp.24-27.

David, James R. "Reengineering Teaching for 21st Century Learning." Educational Record. Fall 1995. Pp.16-22.

League For Innovation in the Community College. Excerpts From A National Town Meeting on the Learning College. Innovations 1998 Conference. Dallas, Texas.

McClenney, Kay M. "Community Colleges Perched at the Millennium: Perspectives On Innovation, Transformation, and Tomorrow." Leadership Abstracts. Vol. 11, number 8. August 1998.

McPhail, Irving Pressley and McPhail, Christine Johnson. "Transforming Classroom Practice for African-American Learners: Implications for the Learning Paradigm." Removing Vestiges: Research-Based Solutions for Inclusion. American Association for Community Colleges. September 1999.

O'Banion, Terry. "A Learning College for the 21st Century". Community College Journal. DEC/Jan 1995-96, pp.18-23.

O'Banion, Terry. Creating More Learning-Centered community Colleges . League for Innovation in the Community College and PeopleSoft, Inc. 1997.

O'Banion, Terry and Milliron, Mark D. "Conversation On Learning." Learning Abstracts. Vol. 1, No.1, September 1998.

O'Banion, Terry. What Do CEO's Want To Know About Community Colleges Becoming More Learning Centered?." League For Innovation in the Community College. 1998.

O'Banion, Terry. "The Center of the Learning Revolution." Point of View. www.ccweek.com. 6/29/98.

Powerful Partnerships. A Shared Responsibility for Learning. Joint Report of the American Association for Higher Education, American College Personnel Association, and the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators. June, 1998.

Sifferlen, Ned J. "The Parallel College." Point of View. www.ccweek.com. July 14, 1998

Society for College and University Planning. Creating Tomorrow's Learner-Centered Environments-Today. Teleconference participant packet handouts. October 22, 1998.

Tinto, Vincent. Building Learning Communities for New College Students:  A summary of research findings of the Collaborative Learning Project. The National Center on Postsecondary Teaching, Learning, and Assessment. 1994

Wingspread Group on Higher Education. An American Imperative: Higher Expectations for Higher Education. Racine, Wisconsin: The Johnson Foundation, Inc., 1993.

Yarbrough, Boyd., Bowman, John, and Bowling, Tom. Learning Communities as a Retention Tool. Prince Georges Community College Retention Conference handouts. April 24, 1998