Adjunct Faculty Resources
- Pellissippi State Adjunct Faculty Handbook
- Presentation for Columbia Teachers College by CTC Alumni and PSCC faculty member, Dr. Antija Allen on “How to Get out of the Adjunct Zone”
- Inside Higher Ed Careers website
Academic Administration Professional Development
- ARGOS Training
- Course Program of Study (CPoS) frequently asked questions
- Graduation process
- Start Strong Center training session recordings
Recordings of PACE Weekly Trainings & Conferences
Visit the Professional Development Stream channel to view recording of weekly PACE trainings and presentations since Fall 2020, HelpDesk trainings and other professional development recordings from around the college. Log in with your Pellissippi State email address and password.
- Spring 2021 Teaching and Learning Conference Resources and Recordings
- Fall 2020 In-service Resources
- 2020 Distance Learning Conference Keynote: Karl Kapp on “Solving the Case of the Disengaged Learner”
- Spring 2020 PACE Teaching and Learning Conference Resources
- Fall 2019 In-service Resources
- 2019 Distance Learning Conference Keynote: Dr. Tanya Joosten on “Indicators affecting student success in online learning”
Tennessee Board of Regents Resources
Some really wonderful and robust resources from Dr. Melynda Conner, TBR’s High Impact Practice Specialist:
- Best Practices for Building Rubrics
- Classroom Management Resources
- CTE Specific Resources
- Course Design Resources
- TBR Teaching Tuesdays YouTube Playlist with 20 video lessons with printable versions of the lessons complete with additional resources provided in the TBR Teaching Tuesdays Google folder.
- Understanding Learning
On-Demand Training
In addition to the trainings below, we are fortunate to have subscriptions to:
- LinkedIn Learning available to all faculty and staff. See the ERC/Library website for information on how to access this great resource.
- Magna Pubs 20-Minute Mentor Commons with over 300 faculty development videos. Contact PACE@pstcc.edu for subscription information.
- NISOD which has publications and webinars. Contact PACE@pstcc.edu for login information to access articles. You should be able to register for webinars using your @pstcc.edu email address.
ALLY – a new tool in your Brightspace course to aid accessibility
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Argos Reports
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Assessment
Resources Articles Briggs, Saga. “8 Alternatives to High Stakes Standardised Tests.” informED (2015). Retrieved 9/18/2020 Read more..
Brightspace (D2L)
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Create a shared Microsoft Word document
Here’s how to create a shared Microsoft Word document. Read more..
Curriculog Training
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Establish communication with your online students
How to post an announcement in the LMS and how to send an email from Outlook to your entire class. Read more..
From Stage to Screen
This series was presented by Professor Donn King to help faculty and staff move from in-person to on-screen presentations. Read more..
Microsoft Teams and Zoom
Many of these resources link to the Information Services knowledgebase resources on Teams and Zoom. Read more..
Navigate – Submitting Alerts and Completing Progress Reports
Frequently Asked Questions What is an alert? What is a Progress Report? How do I Read more..
Suggestions for a Successful Start to a Semester
Getting to know your students Learn your students’ names: Ask students to create name tents. Read more..
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Articles
- Designing a Course with Accountability and Dale’s Cone of Experience
- 11 Steps to Planning a Course You’ve Never Taught Before
- The workplace is a lonely place, but it doesn’t have to be
- How to Hold a Better Class Discussion
- The Record of Everything You’ve Forgotten?
- How to Create a Syllabus (Advice Guide from Chronicle of Higher Education)
Blogs
Books
- How Humans Learn (available at the PSCC library!)
- Publishers summary: Even on good days, teaching is a challenging profession. One way to make the job of college instructors easier, however, is to know more about the ways students learn. How Humans Learn aims to do just that by peering behind the curtain and surveying research in fields as diverse as developmental psychology, anthropology, and cognitive neuroscience for insight into the science behind learning. The result is a story that ranges from investigations of the evolutionary record to studies of infants discovering the world for the first time, and from a look into how our brains respond to fear to a reckoning with the importance of gestures and language. Joshua R. Eyler identifies five broad themes running through recent scientific inquiry—curiosity, sociality, emotion, authenticity, and failure—devoting a chapter to each and providing practical takeaways for busy teachers. He also interviews and observes college instructors across the country, placing theoretical insight in dialogue with classroom experience.
- How to have impossible conversations: a very practical guide (2019) (available at the PSCC library!)
- Publishers summary: In our current political climate, it seems impossible to have a reasonable conversation with anyone who has a different opinion. Whether you’re online, in a classroom, an office, a town hall — or just hoping to get through a family dinner with a stubborn relative — dialogue shuts down when perspectives clash. Heated debates often lead to insults and shaming, blocking any possibility of productive discourse. Everyone seems to be on a hair trigger. This book guides you through the straightforward, practical, conversational techniques necessary for every successful conversation — whether the issue is climate change, religious faith, gender identity, race, poverty, immigration, or gun control. Boghossian and Lindsay teach the subtle art of instilling doubts and opening minds. They cover everything from learning the fundamentals for good conversations to achieving expert-level techniques to deal with hardliners and extremists. This book is the manual everyone needs to foster a climate of civility, connection, and empathy.
- Hybrid Flexible Course Design by San Francisco State University on teaching face to face and online students synchronously (like in our Distance Learning Classrooms)
E-Newsletters
- Chronicle of Higher Education Teaching and Learning newsletter
- Stanford Center for Teaching and Learning: Tomorrow’s Professor eNewsletter
- Faculty Focus by Magna Publications
Websites
- MERLOT Pedagogy Portal Instructional strategies and issues on Course Instructional Design, Assessment, Learning Theories and strategies such as Simulations, Learning-Centered Teaching, Critical Thinking, etc.
- D2L Brightspace Community
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