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Overview
CRAFT: College Resources for Advanced Faculty Training
CRAFT is a collection of faculty- and staff-led workshops that support faculty professional development and continuous improvement. Benefits for participants include:
- Performance of Teaching & Assessment and Professional Activities for the promotion portfolio.
- Opportunity to continually refine Teaching Philosophy statement and collect substantiating evidence.
- Opportunity to engage faculty across disciplines to discuss and improve teaching
- Engage in the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL)
Some classes can be combined into a sequence that can earn you a Certificate of Completion. To qualify for a certificate, a participant must:
1. Participate in required classes in the sequence (some may require a certain order)
2. Complete a simple action plan (.docx) for each class and have it approved by a workshop leader
3. Document the implementation (.docx) of one or more action plans from classes in a given sequence. (Complete within six months of the last sequence workshop taken.)
Current Certificate Sequences
(See course descriptions in certificate sections to the right.)
Cooperative Learning 1
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Social Psychological Factors in Learning 1
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Student Mental Health Level 1 (Three in any order) SMH01 College Student Mental Health: "Let's Make a Connection" Level 2 (Level 1 plus these two) |
Culturally Responsive Teaching 1 Culturally Responsive Teaching II Gender Inclusivity Prejudice and Discrimination (coming soon) Stereotype Threat (see Social Psych sequence) |
Future Sequences
Additional certificate sequences will be added each semester, Future sequence may include: Cognitive Psychological Factors in Learning, Assessment of Learning, Student Care and Self Assessment.
Have ideas for a class or sequence? Workshops and follow-up must:
- Be about evidence-based practice (backed by research and scholarship)
- Have clear and realistic performance outcomes (“Participants will be able to…”)
- Have content and activities that support achieving the learning outcomes
- Provide feedback on participants’ action plans
- Provide support for effective implementation
Contact (287-2175 or rjames01@cscc.edu) to develop a workshop or sequence. See application form.