This workshop is designed to assist the new practitioner in understanding the field of staff, program, and organizational development and to help the developer in the preliminary design of a successful program. The session will be responsive to the wants and needs identified by the registered participants, but potential topics include orientation programs, faculty development, staff development, leadership programs, needs assessment strategies, planning and budgeting to meet the needs of your college, and developing a strategic plan for an on-going program. (Registration includes materials and lunch with the NCSPOD Board and Certificate Program Mentors)
Valerie Grabove, the Chair of the Centre for Educational and Professional Development, Niagara College, ON. Valerie uses a consultative and integrated approach to professional, personal and organizational development for faculty, administrators and support staff drawing on the theoretical underpinnings of adult education, reflective practice and transformative learning. She is a past recipient of Niagara College’s Administration Award of Excellence and a popular presenter at NCSPOD conferences. She has been an educator and facilitator for over 20 years in a variety of disciplines – theatre, communication, and leadership to name a few. In her role as Chair, she designs, develops and facilitates workshops, programs, OD strategies, conferences and retreats for diverse populations. Recent areas of research and writing include transformative learning and internationalizing curriculum.
Tuesday, October 26, 1:00 - 4:30 and continuing Wednesday, October 27, 8:30 - noon -- Registration fee of $195 includes lunch on Wednesday and all materials.
Our colleges and universities are more diverse than ever – in students and teachers. At the same time, there is mounting evidence about what makes for highly effective teaching. One might assume that the accumulating evidence about highly effective teaching applies equally across the diversity of students and faculty. This session challenges that assumption by presenting evidence of contrasting ‘signature pedagogies’ for several disciplines and cultures. In this session, you will be given the chance to consider how this could have a positive influence on faculty development across increasingly diverse campuses. Participants will be able to take the Teaching Perspectives Inventory prior to the session and discuss the results with the presenter.
The Teaching Perspectives Inventory gives direction to the process of critical reflection by articulating teacher's beliefs about learning, knowledge, and the social role of "teacher." More than 85,000 people, from more than 120 countries, have taken the TPI. Many of those are part of local projects intended to help teachers (and those in training) look more deeply at the underlying values and assumptions related to teaching and learning. The TPI also provides a well-articulated basis from which to justify and defend approaches to teaching when under review or evaluation.
Daniel D. Pratt (PhD, University of Washington) focuses on cross-cultural aspects of tEaching and learning. He is a Professor in the Department of Educational Studies at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver Canada. He has spent several years in China, Hong Kong and Singapore teaching and researching various social and cultural interpretations of teaching and learning. He is a Master Teacher Award Winner at the University of British Columbia and is the principal author of the Cyril Houle Award-winning book: Five Perspectives on Teaching in Adult and Higher Education (Krieger Publishing, 1998). His research interests include cross-cultural differences in teaching and learning, longitudinal changes in perspectives on teaching, and training and education in health professions.
Wednesday, October 27th from 8:30 am to noon – Registration fee of $95 includes your lunch and all materials.
Been there? Done that? So what? Now what? If you are you looking for a powerful, practical way to develop leaders, build teams, develop faculty, improve collaboration and accelerate innovation, try working in 4 Dimensions
This highly interactive workshop will introduce you to the OneSmartWorld 4D-i Suite - rated the #1 assessment in the world for developing leaders, from a pool of 120 instruments and selected by the BC government for training over 7000 of their leaders.
You will learn:
The 4 dimensions of high performance thinking – creativity, understanding, decision-making and personal spirit – and 21 strategies for success
College best practices using the 4D-i with faculty, admin and students
How you can use the 4D-i system for coaching, PD, OD, change management, retention management and faculty skills building
How getting people onto the same page using a common language builds more collaborative cultures
Bob Wiele, M.Ed. has been an innovator in leadership and people development for over 30 years. He is the founder of OneSmartWorld and the developer of the 4D-i , the Smart Skills for student success, the Smarter Meetings system and the OneSmartWorld suite of tools for helping people, teams and organizations make positive changes in their lives, relationships and results. The 4D-i is used by a wide range of clients including community colleges, hospitals, 3 levels of government and corporate clients like BMO, Canadian Cancer Society, Computershare, Dalhousie U. MBA , Shell, Standard Aerospace, WestJet, UBC and Wyeth.
Wednesday, October 27th from 8:30 am to noon – Registration fee of $95 includes your lunch and all materials.
The North American Council for Staff, Program and Organizational Development is an affiliate council of the American Association of Community.
