DECEMBER 2018

VOL. 2
Professional Development
Newsletter
PLC News
Professional Learning Community News:

Our second PLC Meeting was held Wednesday, November 21 at

Woodland Cellars Winery in Hubbard, OH. Again, instructors from
Sterling and Broadway campuses came together to share their in-
structional ideas and enthusiasm for the opportunity to meet with
other educators.

We used this time to discuss such topics as textbooks, creating a

presence when teaching, our best practices, what’s happening in our What’s Happening ?
classrooms, and what our needs are in our classrooms.
December/January
When it comes to our courses’ textbooks, some of the costs seem to
be quite exuberant. While we all agreed that textbooks are necessary Dec.12 Student Christmas Party
tools to our instruction, we also discussed investigating other re- 11:30-1PM
sources that maybe just has useful, but more cost effective. What
kind of online resources are available? What supplemental materials Dec.20 LTI Christmas Party at
prove to be more effective? What, if any, resources does your textbook Tara Country Inn 12:30-
already offer online that could be used? 4:00PM

In this issue of the newsletter look for some best practices to try out Dec. 21-Jan. 1
in your classroom, resources, and good ideas. Christmas Break
Happy Teaching Everyone! Jan. 17 Fall Term Ends
Jan. 21 MLK Day No School
Jan 22 Graduation
Luncheon
Jan. 23 Graduation
Jan. 28 Spring 2019 Orientation
Jan. 30 Spring Semester 2019

**No PLC Meeting for De-

cember; we will meet again
in the new year in January!
Woodland Cellars FB page.
Details TBA!
Books, Books, Books!
The NY Times 10 Best Books of 2018

Christmas break is upon us, and if you’re looking for a

good read, check out the NY Times book review of the
best fiction and non-fiction titles of this year.
Oct. 21st-Oct. 27th was Respiratory
. Care week, students were able to
give back to the community at St.
Joe’s at the Mall and the Shenango
Valley Senior Center.
The Respiratory program went to
St. Joes at the Mall and the She-
nango Valley Senior Center
to perform Lung Health Screen-
ings, Vital Signs, and provided Edu-
cation on Disease Processes and
Medications.
Just as reminder that field trips and
community service hours are
strongly encouraged by ACCSC.
Click here for the Community Ser-
vice form.

Mary Mitwede working with her students at St

Joe’s during Respiratory Care Week. These stu-
dents were able to earn Community Service hours
as well as attend a field trip to put to practice
what they have been learning in their program.
 Network Administration and Se-
curity students use innovation to
Helpful Tools for Instruction spread some holiday cheer.

My Project Pages: Built by Who says the School of Infor-

Diigo: This site works like a bookmark
manager with a highlighter or with
sticky notes. This is an ideal way to re-
search for a paper or to create a new
project for class. This site works much
like MyStickies, but without Diigo’s
highlighter.
teachers for teachers, use my- mation and Technology isn’t fun?!
projectpages.com to create
structured online inquiry-
based learning activities for
the courses you teach that
enable your students to en-
gage in meaningful learning
experiences while online

Grammarly: Several universities use this

tool as a grammar checker. Students can
use this as a method to improve the pro-
cess of peer editing because it checks for
more than 250 points of grammar.

**REMINDER**
With the end of the year approaching, please
make sure that you have turned in your Annual
Faculty & Staff Development Plan/Summary along
with any of your certifications and/or field trip
forms/guest speaker forms.
 OPPORTUNITY AWAITS
Here you will find online resources for
professional development webinars and
seminars:
NISOD Login info
Star 12
Login info: username is star12@laurel.edu, and
the password is Laurel1985

**Reminder**
When you complete a professional develop-
ment seminar, webinar, conference, please
make a copy of your participation certificate
and send it to me or place it in my mailbox.
Also, you may need to update your profession-
al development plan. If you have any questions
about your professional development plan or
certificates, etc., please see me!
totam@laurel.edu /Suite 130/Ext. 2526

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