Professional Development Committees and Groups
Faculty Development Committee
Professional Growth Committee
MyLearningPlan - Professional Development Tracking
Staff Development Program (coming soon)
Professional Development Resources
LATTC Fourth Fridays Training is a training series that takes place the fourth Friday of every month between 1pm-3pm for Administrative Services. Training topics include creating forms, creating accessible documents, and others.
Student Success also holds a series of 4th Friday events from 12:30-1:30pm related to student success topics.
Academic Technology provides training on various academic technology such as Canvas, Moodle, clickers, ePortfolios, iPad use, creating reusable learning objects, smart classroom use, media cart use and iTunes U content creation.
California Community Colleges Professional Learning Network is a one-stop site with professional development resources, online training, speakers directory, calendar of events, and more. It is free for community college employees. Through the Professional Learning Network (PLN), you can complete training videos offered through Grovo and Lynda.com. Both Grovo and Lynda.com offer online content on a variety of topics related to staff, student, and instructional improvement. You receive a certificate of completion for training and courses completed. In order to access Grovo and Lynda.com, you will need to register for a free account with PLN. You can afterwards log in to PLN, and go to the “Learning” tab to visit the Learn Academy page. From there, select either Grovo or Lynda.com to begin.
Check out the Vision Resource Center (VRC). It is the redesigned portal for California Community College professional development supporting the goals and commitment of the CCC Vision for Success through the Guided Pathways framework. It includes your favorites like Lynda.com and Skillsoft trainings, but with many more new and exciting features, including:
- Connecting virtually with colleagues across the state to share resources and best practices
- Creating a personal profile and photo to help build your network
- Selecting topics that interest YOU for a curated list of content tailored to YOU
- A statewide calendar of professional development activities
- Track all of your professional learning online through your own transcript
Log in with your Professional Learning Network (PLN) credentials or, if you never used PLN, you can create a free account with your employee email address. Take a tour of the new Vision Resource Center today. Vision Resource Center Trainning Video.
District Academic Senate Professional Development College
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District Academic Senate Professional Development College (PDC) is designed to improve and/or develop competencies of current and future community college instructors. This program offers skill sets that are important for meaningful and effective teaching and learning. The PDC has been offering a series of seminars beginning Winter 2016. (Note: These credit courses may be used for pay column advancement.) The
PDC is composed of five tiers, each containing 1-3 stackable courses that lead to a certificate. All courses are degree-applicable and CSU transferable.