1-Feb
10:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Using Technology to Teach with Empathy
Instructor: Phillip Bonner
Teaching with technology is sometimes viewed as a cold or distant approach, but technology can allow for greater empathy in teaching. Features in Blackboard and other technologies provide opportunities for increased student success, and reusable learning objects (RLOs) created with technology offer students greater options to engage with content. Join ELITE for this two-hour class on how to leverage technology to build empathy into your courses. Note: Participants need to attend both one-hour sessions to receive professional development credit for this class: Feb. 1 and 8, 2024.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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- Identify three- or four-ways technology can be used for more empathetic teaching
- Share with colleagues one way they have used technology to promote empathy or one way they would like to do so.
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2-Feb
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
HyFlex Course Design
Instructor: Tom Cantu
Imagine a fresh approach to instruction that increases the motivation to learn, engages students, and results in academic success – that’s HyFlex learning. HyFlex learning is designed to maximize flexibility for students to attend and participate in classes remotely or in person. This series offers an opportunity to explore a collaborative approach to HyFlex course design to educate, engage, and empower learners at Montgomery College.
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
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- Explore a research-based instructional model that allows for a gradual release of responsibility from the instructor to teams, to individual students
- Evaluate a collaborative approach to HyFlex instruction
- Design and develop a HyFlex lesson for future implementation
- Create a community of practice to support HyFlex teaching and learning at MC.
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5-Feb
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Reading about Leading: “Co-Active Leadership” A Book Discussion for LDI Alumni
Instructor: Cynthia Mauris
Co-Active Leadership, second edition, is a deeply collaborative approach that explores leadership from five dimensions. Not surprisingly, to LDI alumni, the first dimension is leading from within self-leadership. Leaders must be fully present and live lives of integrity, openheartedness, and self-awareness if they are to make the kind of conscious, creative choices co-active leadership demands.
Each of the remaining four dimensions works together holistically. Depending on the situation, you may lead from the front, offering guidance and inspiration; from behind, supporting and encouraging others; from beside, partnering with and supporting other members of your team; or from the field, drawing on insights and wisdom available beyond the rational mind.
Co-active leadership celebrates and honors different expressions of leadership. It invites all of us to share our expertise and allows collaborative solutions to emerge that would never be possible otherwise.
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