SPECIAL EVENTS

On Course I

September 5,6&7, 2008

Join Us for a Three-Day

A Festival for Learner-Centered Educators
Jonathan Brennan, Facilitator

The On Course I Workshop is a highly experiential professional development event designed to provide you with dozens of innovative strategies for empowering your students to become active, responsible and successful learners. These are different strategies than those presented in the 2-day event last Spring Flex week.

These learner-centered strategies—representing best practices from innovators in higher education, business, psychology, sports and personal effectiveness—help students become full and active partners in their own education.

Strategies presented in this workshop improve both student academic success and retention. View data from a number of college and universities at www.OnCourseWorkshop.com (click on DATA).
Join us for this major on-campus professional development event and learn proven methods for empowering your students to achieve their greatest potential in college…and beyond.

A GREAT PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT EVENT

WORKSHOP SCHEDULE
8:30-4:30 each day, with an optional session (6:00-9:00) on the second evening. You’ll hear more about the optional session at the workshop.

Breakfast and lunch will be served each day. Participants should plan on attending all three days.

Contact Diane Putnam at:
diputnam [at] cabrillo.edu
by August 31 to reserve your spot. Workshop will take place on-campus, in rooms TBA.

It is no exaggeration to say this workshop experience was transformative—both professionally and personally. This workshop will long remain a high point of my life. I am feeling energized and eager to start teaching my class next week. I can’t wait to use all of my new teaching tools. I will absolutely recommend this workshop to other educators!
—Lee Ann Adams, Indiana University East (IN)

 

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Digital Bridge Academy’s Faculty Experiential Learning Institute

January 10–17, 2009

The Faculty Experiential Learning Institute (FELI) is an experiential institute that exposes participants to core exercises and curriculum used in the nine-day Foundation Course that is currently taught to students during the first two weeks of the Digital Bridge Academy’s (DBA) Integrated Bridge Semester at Cabrillo College.

As of summer 2008, more than 120 faculty from twenty colleges in California have attended one of the four FELI workshops. The results have been positive, and faculty members have especially valued the opportunity to build a community on campus, to discuss teaching with other instructors, and to develop new tools and understanding for working with students, especially students who come from poverty.

Participants have included Cabrillo faculty members from many disciplines, ranging from English and Math to Basic Skills, Biology, Chemistry, CIS, Counseling, Dance, History, Early Childhood Education, and Sociology.

If these opportunities interest you, please contact Beth Nelson, DBA Program Manager for additional information at benelson [at] cabrillo.edu or 477-3272.