Professional Development Program

What's New?

The Professional Development Team is coordinating its second annual professional development conference for all college employees on March 20, 2002. "Stronger Together" will be hosted by the Essex Campus. Look elsewhere on this site for more information about this exciting, free conference.

The Learning Opportunities for Faculty and Staff booklet will be updated in the Spring of 2002 as an online resource, organizing all available professional development options into one reference guide. If we have left out something that should be included, please let us know. Please contact Judy Snyder or a member of the PDT to update the materials in this guide.

The Professional Development Team currently is developing a proposal for an inclusive year-round program of offerings - The Learning Academy. Please watch for opportunities to provide your ideas as we develop this comprehensive program.

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

 

Resources on Reserve

Are you curious about the theories behind learning-centered colleges? The following resources, available on reserve in your campus library, might be of value. This list was compiled by the Education Subcommittee of the CCBC Council on Innovation and Student Learning (CISL).

McPhail, Irving Pressley. "Launching LearningFirst at The Community College of Baltimore County." Learning Abstracts, Vol. 2, No. 6, September 1999.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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