Research Guides: Teaching & Learning Center: Professional Development

PD at Vol State

Online professional development opportunities available throughout the semester.

Check the Calendar often to see updates for Spring 2021

VSCC Faculty PD Calendar
Professional Development options for Fall 2020 and Spring 2021 that will be offered by The Teaching and Learning Center, Distributed Education, and the Office of Diversity and Inclusion

Every Learner Everywhere

Through its partnership and membership with Frontier Set TBR is providing these professional development opportunities and resources from Every Learner Everywhere.

Expert Network

Free 1:1 coaching sessions with equity experts in digital learning to support higher ed faculty and leaders who need expert advice to support students through the COVID-19 crisis. Services are open to faculty, course coordinators, instructional designers, department chairs, deans, directors of centers for teaching and learning or other staff engaged with improving outcomes.

Every Learner Everywhere Expert Network

Interactive Conference Series: Strategies for Success

An interactive conference series for higher education professionals. Participants join up to three synchronous online events each month for four months. Webinars are recorded for later viewing by participants.

Register for each monthly series individually

Webinars

Inclusive Online Teaching Webinars (series begins Oct 2)
Free, one-hour live webinars will feature leading experts in diversity, equity and inclusion across higher education, faculty scholars in teaching and learning, and Q&A for participants.
Black Minds Matter series
Five recorded webinars from the Black Minds Matter series. CORA Leaning
Distance Learning Weekly Webinar
TeachRock's curriculum designer Joshua Zarbo hosts a webinar exploring the group's Distance Learning Packs every Thursday at 3 PM EDT on Teach Rock's Facebook page.
Trauma-Informed Pedagogy: Teaching in Uncertain Times
Access is available for the on-demand (recorded) version of the seminar

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at a discounted price of $39.

Conferences & Workshops

Let's Talk About Race workshop 2 (Jan 12)
Workshop 2: Dismantling Color Blind Ideologies
Virtual Teams Meeting on Jan 12, 2021 (10:30 AM CT)
Registration required

Transforming the Teaching & Learning Environment 2021 Virtual Conference (Feb 5-14)
Vol State has an institutional registration to this virtual conference. Conference begins on February 3rd and concludes on February 14th. Each weekday there will be six one-hour sessions presented via Zoom. Open the attached Word document for login instructions and a link to the conference schedule

2021 Tennessee Conference on Volunteerism & Service-Learning (Feb 7-9)
Statewide service-learning conference, co-hosted by the Tennessee Service-Learning Consortium and Volunteer TN
Virtual February 7-9 2021
DREAM 2021 (Feb 16-21)
Achieving the Dream Annual Conference
Virtual Feb 16 -21
NOTE: Vol State is a member of the ATD network
2021 Innovative Teaching and Learning Conference (March 30)
Annual conference at UTK highlights the importance of good teaching in higher education settings by featuring the innovative teaching practices that occur in college classrooms across the state of Tennessee.
Knoxville, TN, March 30, 2021
Let's Talk About Race workshop 3 (Mar 16)
Workshop 3: Becoming a Racial Justice Ally
Virtual Teams Meeting on March 16, 2021 (10:30 AM CT)
Registration required
2021 LGBT+ College Conference (Apr 1-3)
Free 3 day conference with three tracks (students, faculty/staff, and HR and corporate leaders). Get information about challenges faced by LGBT+ students and concrete strategies to address those challenges.
Murfreesboro, TN (MTSU) April 1-3, 2021

Teaching & Learning Center: Professional Development