The Center for Instructional Excellence supports student learning by encouraging faculty-driven initiatives, promoting development of faculty knowledge, and recognizing the achievement of excellence.
Conferences
Links to conferences that faculty have attended in the past.
Professional Development Funding Process
Friday Forums
12:00 PM – 1:30 PM | 110 Founders Hall | Lunch provided | RSVP to Rita Kucera, rkucera@nmc.edu
OCT 7 – Ethics in Education
NOV 4 – Technology Showcase
DEC 2 – Grading
FEB 3
MAR 3
APR 7
20 Minute Mentor Coffee Club
10:00 AM | Coffee Provided | No RSVP Necessary
Place the following dates on your calendar and join CIE to view and discuss a video segment on teaching and learning as a group.
Fall sessions:
SEPT 16 – Creative Thinking – TED Talk
OCT 21 – Irene Miller – Into No Man’s Land: A Historical Memoir
NOV 18 – The Learning Mindset – Carol Dweck
Spring sessions:
JAN 20
FEB 17
MAR 17
APR 21
On-Campus Professional Development Days
AUG 19, 8:30 AM
New Faculty Institute, Fall session – Beckett Bldg – CIE hosted training for all new, regular and adjunct faculty.
AUG 22, 9:00 AM – 4:00 PM Hagerty Center
Designing Courses to Foster Significant Learning
AUG 23, 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM Hagerty Center
“A Deeper Dive” – Strategies for faculty designing instruction and teaching courses
OCT 18
Our tenth-annual NMC Fall Conference. Lunch provided.
CIE Reading Group
Each year the CIE Board selects a book which has connections to the classroom, but that also has ties to our personal and professional acumen. The books for the 2016-2017 will be Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation by Daniel Siegel and Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III and Mark A. McDaniel.
Faculty can get a copy of the book – free of charge. Please contact Rita Kucera (rkucera@nmc.edu) to request a copy. The book will be discussed during a session of the October Professional Development Day in the fall.
CIE Resource Library
CIE maintains a section of books and resources within the Osterlin Library for faculty use. Browse the the titles online.