Durham Tech’s Teaching-Learning Center sponsors a variety of workshops and presentations geared toward helping faculty improve instruction and address new and ongoing challenges in the classroom.This site also includes summaries of past presentations, with links to pertinent resources.

New Faculty Orientation
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
10:30a.m.-2 p.m.

Library Resources made Incredibly Easy- Wendy Ramseur, Susan Baker
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
10:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.

Library resources will be made incredibly easy for faculty and staff during this hour-long session. Topics will cover faculty-specific support such as interlibrary loan, instruction, research support, databases, i-link catalog, reserves, routing periodicals, and more.

How to Approach and Engage African American Men in the Classroom - Demtrius Thompson, George King
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
1:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m.

Strategies for Preventing Plagiarism (Lea Bingham, Lyndsay Al-Shibli, Susan Sutton)
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
12:00 noon - 1:00 p.m.

Join us for a lunch and learn discussion of ways to prevent plagiarism.  The panel will share approaches to discussing academic honesty with students, strategies for teaching students how to avoid plagiarism, and ways to make it difficult for students to plagiarize.  Bring your lunch and your own successful strategies!

Teaching Circles Article Discussion (Kerry Cantwell)
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Join other instructors in a discussion of a timely article from the Chronicle of Higher Education.  The article will be announced one week prior to the discussion.  Bring your lunch and your experiences!

The YouTube Class Connection (Janice Stuart)
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m.

Engaging our students can be quite challenging.   Given their high-octane connection to today’s technology, our students need instruction in which contextual learning can take place.  Youtube and the Internet can provide tools that offer context to increase student learning in many types of classes.

Globalization of Career and Technical Courses (Ken Clever with panelists: Micara Lewis, Randy Egsegian, Nate Smith)

Adjunct Faculty Resources Workshop (Theresa Fine-Pawsey)
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
4:45 p.m - 5:15 p.m.

Adjunct Faculty Resources Workshop (Laura Gorham) REPEAT OF SESSION ON 9-22
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
4:45 p.m - 5:15 p.m.

Are Our Students Starting Off Right?  Making SENSE of Student Engagement (Follow Up Presentation of SENSE data) – LaSylvia Pugh
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
11:00 a.m - Noon

Connecting the Daily Lesson Plan to Course Objectives (Robbi Muckenfuss)
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Research, Evaluation, Assessment, and Planning at Durham Tech (Mary Anne Grabarek)
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
2:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Durham Tech is moving forward in assessment and planning. Come and find out about the new efforts in evaluation and research at the college.

8 Time Management Strategies for Busy Durham Tech Employees (Gabby McCutchen
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

As community college faculty and staff, we often wear many different hats.  Join Gabby for a 30-minute interactive tutorial on how to manage your time (and balance those hats!) effectively.

8 Time Management Strategies for Busy Durham Tech Employees (Gabby McCutchen
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

As community college faculty and staff, we often wear many different hats.  Join Gabby for a 30-minute interactive tutorial on how to manage your time (and balance those hats!) effectively.

Join other instructors in a discussion of a timely article from the Chronicle of Higher Education.  The article will be announced one week prior to the discussion.  Bring your lunch and your experiences!

Adjunct Communication Workshop (Theresa Fine Pawsey
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
4:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Adjunct Communication Workshop (Laura Gorham) REPEAT OF SESSION ON 10-6
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
4:45 p.m. - 5:15 p.m.

Native American Behaviors and the Dominant Society – Michael Fire
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325

Durham Tech Study Abroad Program: Learning Based Travel (Shannon Hahn)
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
Noon - 1:00 p.m.

Have you ever wondered about those Study Abroad trips you hear about every year? What exactly do they have to do with the mission of the college? Come hear how the program is structured around learning and what has been done to target specific learning outcomes. Students not only travel to a foreign country; they participate in a valuable cultural experience blending classroom learning and interaction with the local culture on various levels. Please note: This is not a photo-sharing session of past trips but a discussion of the program itself.

Math Relates to Everything – Elecia Ridley and James Weeks
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325

How to Teach Controversial Subjects to Students (Bonnie Tilson and Penny Gluck)
Teaching-Learning Center, Phillips Building, room 325
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Back by popular demand! This session continues the discussion Bonnie and Penny started in the spring semester.  They will explore how establishing classroom rules for discussion and creating a non-confrontational classroom atmosphere can help you engage students in meaningful class discussions, so they learn to explain their own ideas and listen to ideas with which they disagree.  Please come prepared to share ideas about facilitating classroom discussions.