Kansas Council for Workforce Education

Promoting Excellence & Growth in Career & Technical Education at the Postsecondary Level

Professional Development
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Working with Learning Style Differences

The links below will take you to resources on the Web, which can help you work with learning style differences.  Included in these sites are questionnaires to help you and your students discover your (and their) learning style preferences.  Information is included on how to work with learning style differences.   We hope you find this information useful.

http://www.learningstyles.net/

http://www.vark-learn.com/english/index.asp

http://gregorc.com/

http://www4.ncsu.edu/unity/lockers/users/f/felder/public/Learning_Styles.html

http://www.infed.org/biblio/b-explrn.htm#learning style


New Post-Secondary Career & Technical Education Instructor Seminar

This KCWE-sponsored seminar is designed for new post-secondary career & technical education instructors.
Click here for more information

Training/Graduate Credit

STARLINK, Kansas Board of Regents, Kansas Council for Workforce Education, Pittsburg State University and Washburn University are working together so that you can work on your professional skills and receive graduate credit.

 

The STARLINK Training Network is entering its twentieth year of providing innovative ideas, cutting-edge experts, and state-of-the-art training to higher education professionals via DVD and the Internet. STARLINK offers cost-effective, high quality and dynamic learning opportunities to educational institutions, governmental agencies, and other public entities. The STARLINK network currently provides over 150 hours of professional development programming annually to 215 member colleges and universities in 24 states and Canada.

 

The Kansas Board of Regents has provided professional development opportunities for post-secondary instructors in Kansas with STARLINK through Carl D. Perkins funds. Make sure you take advantage of this opportunity to access the materials from STARLINK and enhance your professional skills.

You can also enroll for graduate credit through Pittsburg State University. For graduate enrollment, please contact Greg Belcher at Pittsburg State University at 620-235-4637.
Click here for information and instructions.


Conferences & Workshops

Please click here to go to the Calendar of Events page for conference and workshop information.


Professional Development Resources

http://www.developfaculty.com/online/index.html
Site containing multiple links to resources.  Owner/operator Richard Lyons has been working in professional development for higher education for many years.  Site also contains information on professional development webinars which are reasonably priced.  

http://www.bcit.ca/idc/resources.shtml
Site is operated by the British Columbia Institute of Technology.  Provides what the Canadians call “Job Aides” for faculty.  The “How To's" are brief help sheets on specific instructional topics.  

http://www.idea.ksu.edu/podidea/index.html
This link takes you to the Kansas State University IDEA Papers. 
“These succinct papers were written as a resource to support teaching improvement; each is useful to anyone wanting to address specific ways to employ different teaching methods.”  Site also provides information on the IDEA workshops, which are held at different sites around the country. 

http://academics.utep.edu/Default.aspx?tabid=21421 
A University Texas at El Paso site, which allows you to download a copy of Tony Grasha’s book Teaching With Style.

http://www.nisod.org/publications/abstracts/index.html 
Site is based at the University of Texas, Austin.  Provides information on the National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development.  

http://teach.northwestern.edu/links.html#PS 
This site is for the Searle Center for University Teaching at Northwestern University.  Provides links to a variety of topics including: Teaching Elements, Teaching Methods, and Teaching Issues.  

http://etc.buffalo.edu/teaching_resources/teachingStrategies.html 
Provides links to a variety of teaching strategies.  

http://www.crlt.umich.edu/ 
Site is operated by the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan. Provides numerous links to teaching and learning resources.

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