Faculty Professional Development Committee Meeting

Faculty Professional Development Committee Meeting

Title: Faculty Professional Development Committee Meeting
Date: 09/14/2022
Agenda

Taft College Faculty Professional Development Agenda

September 14, 2022

12:10pm

Science 11

 

Call to Order

Public Commentary

Action Items

  1. Approval Minutes from May 11, 2022 ACTION
  2. Fall Faculty PDC meeting schedule ACTION
  3. Approval to hold October 12, 2022, meeting via Zoom, if needed ACTION
  4. Review committee charter ACTION

 

Information/Discussion Items

  1. Review of Fall 2022 In-Service INFORMATION
  2. Current Professional Development Opportunities INFORMATION
  3. Building January In-Service Schedule (Jan. 5-13, 2022) INFORMATION
  4. Next Meeting: October 12, 2022, 12:10pm, S11 INFORMATION

Other

Adjournment

 

Minutes

Faculty Professional Development Committee Minutes

 

September 14, 2022

 

 

Members Present:

Wendy Berry, Julián Martínez, Mariza Martínez, Diane Jones, Chris Taylor, Leslie Minor, Ruby Payne, John Eigenauer, Tabitha Raber

 

Members Absent: 

None

 

Guests:

None

 

Welcome:

Meeting started: 12:12pm

 

Action Items

 

  1. Approval of Minutes from May 11, 2022

Motion: Wendy Berry

Second: Julián Martínez

Passed unanimously.

 

  1. Fall Faculty PDC meeting schedule

It was proposed that fall meetings continue to be on the second Wednesday of each month, from 12:10 – 1:00 pm. For fall 2022, that would be October 12, November 9, and December 14. It was noted that members who teach a final exam during the December 14 meeting would not need to make that meeting.

Motion: Mariza Martínez

Second: Julián Martínez

Passed unanimously.

 

 

  1. Approval to hold October 12, 2022, meeting via Zoom, if needed

It was proposed that members approve the possibility of holding the October meeting via zoom if necessary because of quarantine or other circumstances.

Motion: Wendy Berry

Second: Mariza Martínez

Passed unanimously.

 

 

  1. Review committee charter

The charter was reviewed by Diane Jones. Leslie Minor asked a question about whether the committee had a minimum or maximum number of faculty, she also noted that this question sometimes came up when committee preferences were being evaluated. Wendy Berry suggested that we could change the language to reflect the current practice of having a minimum but not a maximum, Diane Jones noted that to some extent, that was implied in the current language. A motion was made to adopt the current charter language without changes.

Motion: Julián Martínez

Second: Mariza Martínez

Passed unanimously.

 

 

Information/Discussion Items

  1. Review of Fall 2022 In-Service

Diane Jones noted that there had been many complaints and concerns about last minute changes to schedule for the August in-service. She also brought up the following:

That there are parts of the schedule that are supposed to be left available for faculty to use flex days (Monday during the August in-service, and Thursday-Friday during the January in-service). That during both August and January in-service, it is necessary for certain days to be set aside for specific purposes. These include Student Learning Outcomes (Wednesday) and two days for faculty planning, division meetings, and program review (Thursday and Friday).

Wendy Berry noted that it was particularly jarring as a PDC committee member to be surprised by last minute changes to the in-service schedule.

Mariza Martinez noted that one of the days had several back-to-back mandatory events without a lunch break, which made it necessary to leave partway through a session to eat.

Leslie Minor noted that in the future, state mandated sessions that fall over mealtimes may qualify for money for meals.

 

  1. Current Professional Development Opportunities

There was a discussion in which Diane Jones noted recent emails highlighting opportunities from Leslie Minor and from John Farmer, and thanked Leslie Minor for sending those around to faculty.

Leslie Minor noted that senate also has a large number of additional development opportunities for interested faculty.

Mariza Martinez asked about the approval process for attending, and the possibility to get approval for flex at the last minute. Leslie Minor replied that folks can get last minute flex approval, but if something needs to be paid for by the district, that would need a little bit of advance notice.

 

  1. Building January In-Service Schedule (Jan. 5-13, 2022)

Diane Jones presented the current draft of the schedule. In the draft, Thursday and Friday are composed of suggested online trainings from NISOD, instructure, etc. Diane Jones noted that committee members should keep an eye out for additional trainings that they think would be useful and send them along for inclusion. There was general agreement that the existing set of trainings had good breadth of coverage.

Julián Martínez noted that the harassment training is mandatory for folks who are due for renewal, and that it might be better to have it later during in-service (not on the flex days). Diane Jones noted that it is possible for folks to use flex time on Th/F and do the training later during in-service.

There was some discussion about what NISOD is, and that while the membership is through TC, faculty should create individual accounts for access to those resources.

Diane Jones noted the importance of EEO training, but that it might have to move in order to meet staff/admin availability. Wendy Berry asked about the possibility of having the notification go out to all faculty, not just faculty who have been trained and are up for renewal.

Diane Jones noted that the COVID protocol update was moved to earlier in the week, pending staff and /or administrator availability.

Diane Jones noted that access/student success committees are merging. There was a conversation the about new structure. Leslie Minor noted that they used to be one committee, but split due to a funding opportunity and are now being recombed in order to better work on a strategic enrollment plan. The new committee will be SEM-COM (strategic enrollment management committee).

Ruby Payne asked about the Tuesday best practices session, Diane Jones asked the committee members if the session should be kept. John Eigenauer asked to keep it in order to foster better practices for student engagement, and noted the difficulties of supporting students who won’t use online resources. There was additional discussion about the overlap between this and the NISOD sessions, and the possibility of using this as a forum to discuss the NISOD sessions or having new John Farmer present as part of the session.

There was brief discussion about the probability of having a guest speaker for January 11, with details still in the works.

Diane Jones noted that other meetings were still in place from last year, subject to requests from the relevant bodies for them to be moved.

There was a brief discussion in which Leslie Minor brought up that that additional DEI material will likely be needed in response to state level mandates, probably in addition to the resources provided by Lunch and Learn, John Farmer’s DE events, and NISOD. There was a question about whether the DE events are recorded (Leslie Minor is unsure if John Farmer is recording his material). Leslie Minor also noted that DEI now includes accessibility issues for remote/DE resources.

Diane Jones asked about additional sessions that folks would like to see in this draft. There was a general consensus that (other than the above note about DEI), there were no additional specific items at this point.

Diane Jones will contact Tina for SLO day agenda.

Wendy Berry asked about the necessity for the current number of meetings during SLO day, in addition to setting aside time for faculty to analyze and input their SLO data. Leslie Minor noted that there are changes at the state and accreditation level that faculty need to be kept up to date on. Diane Jones asked Leslie Minor about the likelihood of future changes from ACCJC about SLOs and Leslie Minor noted that there probably would be additional changes. There was additional discussion in which Wendy Berry and John Eigenauer noted a preference for a pause in adding new SLO day sessions. Mariza Martínez also noted that because of issues that prevented entry of SLO data during the term, this couldn’t be done in advance. Diane Jones noted the possibility of taking questions/concerns to Tina.

 

 

Other:

No additional business was raised.

 

 

Meeting Adjourned:

Motion:

Second:

Adjourned by consensus at 12:48

 

Next Meeting October 12, 2022

 

 

 

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