Professional Development Opportunities

Professional Development Opportunities

Join us May 14 – 18 in Little Alice for teachingSOLUTIONS!  This is a great opportunity to earn your Online Teaching Certificate.  The hours are 9:00 to 3:00 with a daily mini-lesson and lots of time to complete the competencies to earn your certificate.  Drop...
A Fond Farewell

A Fond Farewell

Life is a wonderful journey and I am grateful for the time I spent with all of you at NMC.  Each time I met a new person, in a new building, new circumstance, I felt the warmth, caring and kidding each one of you gives to one another.  Thank you for all of the...
Join the Learning Communities for Lunch

Join the Learning Communities for Lunch

May 4th from 12:00 – 1:30 NMC has eight active learning communities this year where faculty and staff have explored different areas of interest.  These include Collaboration for Universal Design, E-Portfolios, Coaching, New Faculty, Belonging, Student Veterans...
Developing Metacognition by Modeling with Contextual Frameworks

Developing Metacognition by Modeling with Contextual Frameworks

Metacognition means, simply, thinking about one’s thinking and realizing if you are comprehending what you are thinking.  Modeling thinking is one metacognitive approach to instruction that Buehl (2014) found increases student’s abilities to transfer or adapt their...
“Use Heads Up” Questions

“Use Heads Up” Questions

Student Engagement Aids Text Comprehension. Try this “Heads-up Questions” Strategy. How many different ways have you tried to prepare students for the class activities?  How do you get students to participate in discussions and not always have the same students...