Eastern Regional Center
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NC-NET’s Eastern Regional Center, led by Martin Community College in Williamston, is responsible for the development of discipline-specific resources. The Center hosts numerous workshops throughout the year on both discipline-specific and instructional technology topics. |
ALIVE with C.A.T.S.
A Workshop for Faculty
Bring your classroom ALIVE with a five-step process focused on developing lessons that address different learning styles, integrate brain-learning research, and incorporate proven evaluation techniques. Facilitated by Dr. Pat Akers of P.A. Training Solutions, this interactive workshop will use the content of Using Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATS) to learn the ALIVE process of energizing your classroom.
What to Expect
Participants will be able to:
1. Discuss the concept of “human learning” and brain learning principles.
2. Describe the importance of CATS in evaluating student progress and teacher performance.
3. Write observable student learning outcomes (SLOs).
4. Select CATS to measure SLOs.
5. Apply brain learning strategies when developing lessons.
6. Apply the ALIVE process of designing lessons to your specific content.
Discover the ALIVE Process:
- Activate a plan
- Link students to the topic and each other
- Inform using need to know content information
- Validate using hands-on experiences
- Evaluate and apply process and content
What to Bring
Participants should bring a course outline and one lesson plan to the workshop.
Workshop Dates for 2010:
- January 29, 2010, at Davidson County CC
- February 11, 2010, NC-NET Central Regional Center at Fayetteville Tech CC
- March 5, 2010, at Western Piedmont CC
- March 10, 2010, at Roanoke-Chowan CC
- April 9, 2010, at Brunswick CC
Workshop is free, but online registration is required. Register now.
- Funding for travel is available through the NC-NET Eastern Regional Center. Please indicate your request for travel funds on the online registration form linked above.
- To ask questions about the workshop, email Nancy Massey at Masseyn@nccommunitycolleges.edu
Self-paced online modules developed by the Eastern Center include:
- Developing Interactive Activities for Online Labs and Classes
- Early Childhood Education: Evaluating Student Fieldwork
- Early Childhood Education: No Child Left Behind
- Guerrilla Marketing Automotive Technology
- Interactive Activities for Online Teaching in Industrial Technology
- NATEF Certification and Re-Certification Requirements
- Online Resources for Industrial Technologies
All self-paced modules can be accessed through the NC-NET Blackboard server. Log in with the user name faculty and the password nc-net. Once connected, you can view the courses by topic or alphabetically by title.
The Eastern Regional Center also offers an Excellence in Teaching Resource Room to provide North Carolina community college faculty with books, magazines, videos, and technology resources related to promoting excellence on the personal level and college level to better students and the community college system.
Another resource provided by the Eastern Center is the Online Teaching Resource Center, developed by noted researcher Dr. Susan Colaric of East Carolina University.
For more information about the Eastern Regional Center, contact:
Phyllis Broughton
Dean, Academics & Student Services
Director, NC-NET Eastern Regional Center
Martin Community College
1161 Kehukee Park Road
Williamston, NC 27892
(252) 792-1521 x246
E-mail: pbroughton@martincc.edu