Employee Development

This briefing is designed for hiring committee members at NVC as presented by the Alamo Colleges HR Department. Tips on procedures for screening, selection, de-selection, legal pre-employment interview questions, reference checks, evaluations, and specific information regarding the employment laws governing selection and recruitment processes. Hiring committee members are required to attend once every 12 months as per by the Alamo Colleges Human Resources Department.

Target Audience: Target Group
Instructor: Ann Marie Mungia, Sr. HR Specialist
Performance Measure: Knowledge

Faculty Development

The Resilient Educator is a powerful, highly relevant (6-hour) training program that helps educators boost performance, improve school relationships, and strengthen resiliency. Acclaimed by educators for its new ideas and solid foundation in neuroscience, the program's proven techniques are easy to learn and help rekindle educators' motivation and energy. Drawing on the Institute of HeartMath's fifteen years of scientific research, this training engages educators through its timely, practical, research-based approach. Information applies to the participant themselves and their students. This course is designed for educators only. Classroom size will be limited. For additional information, go to www.heartmath.org Notes: Sign-in begins at 8:15 am, lunch on your own

Target Audience: Faculty
Instructor: Sonja B. Montgomery, Ph.D., LPC
Performance Measure: Knowledge

Faculty Development

What are our students learning? Come learn about the evolution of our student learning outcomes assessment project, and its connection to our Quality Enhancement Plan (QEP) and our accreditation.

Target Audience: Faculty
Instructor: Christa Emig and Jimmie Bruce
Performance Measure: Organizing/Planning/Problem Solving

Faculty Development

This session will consist of some of NVC's Piper Award nominees speaking about motivating forces behind their desire to teach. Each will discuss a quality encouraging them to be contentiously engaged as an instructor. This will be followed by a round-table discussion involving everyone in attendance. Previous Piper Award nominees have been Mimi Duvall, Sharon Colangelo, Dana Goodrich, Robert McWhorter, Anthony Coppin, J.L. Egremy, Don Lucas and Denise Tolan.

Target Audience: Faculty
Instructor: Mat Roy

Employee Development

As part of the Wellness Program, the NVC Counseling Center is sponsoring a Smoking Cessation Group Hypnosis Session for the college community. Karen Peterson will facilitate the group. The program will consist of a brief explanation of hypnosis and how it works (or when it doesn't work), followed by guided meditation with hypnotic suggestions. The suggestions will encourage participants to stop smoking and to take on a healthier life style. Graduates of the program will receive a CD for daily use and reinforcement, as well. Individuals who want to stop are more successful than those forced to attend the training/session. Motivation goes a long way. Hypnosis cannot make you do something that you do not want to do. Even under hypnosis, a person still has free will. So, if you are ready for a change, mark the date and please sign up now. (The exact location of the event will be publicized at a later time.) Please, pass on the information to our students as well. Notes: Please, arrive 15 minutes early

Target Audience: Students
Instructor: Karen Peterson, CHt
Performance Measure: Knowledge

Technology

Learn how to use Office Communicator 2007 and its features. Office Communicator is a unified communications client that offers real-time communication facilities. Communicator has many built-in functions, including, instant messaging, directory information, audio and video conferencing and a way to display web presence. The system is tightly integrated with the Microsoft Office System (Word, Excel, and PowerPoint).

Target Audience: NVC Employees
Instructor: Kori Schneider

Technology

Add power to your process mapping ability with full integration with Microsoft® PowerPoint®! SmartDraw helps you work smarter...just select a template, input your information, and SmartDraw does the rest - aligning everything automatically and applying professional design themes for professional-quality results every time. Notes: RECOMMENDED FOR APD PROCESS IMPROVEMENT TEAMS.

Target Audience: Staff
Instructor: Marlene Masten
Performance Measure: Knowledge/Work Quality/Reliability

Technology

Add power to your process mapping ability with full integration with Microsoft® PowerPoint®! SmartDraw helps you work smarter...just select a template, input your information, and SmartDraw does the rest - aligning everything automatically and applying professional design themes for professional-quality results every time. Notes: RECOMMENDED FOR APD PROCESS IMPROVEMENT TEAMS.

Target Audience: Staff
Instructor: Marlene Masten
Performance Measure: Knowledge/Work Quality/Reliability

Technology

Employee Central is the centralized database for maintaining personnel records from the first day of hire throughout the employee's term of employment with NVC. Designed to record HR, Contact, Availability, and individual Professional Development Transcripts, this system is instrumental in the tracking of PAR's (Personnel Activity Reports) which are a mandatory process in association with District HR regulation.

Target Audience: Staff
Instructor: Kori Schneider
Performance Measure: Work Quality/Reliability

Technology

Question and answer training.

Target Audience: Staff
Instructor: Kori Schneider

Employee Development

CHANGE THE WAY YOU SEE THE WORLD IN ONE DAY! In this powerful one-day training, you'll learn new ways to think about your time, as well as practical processes and effective applications that help you live these lessons. Three sections provide the secret to becoming more focused on your priorities, better organized, and more productive overall.

Target Audience: NVC Employees
Instructor: Jesse Diaz & Hope Medina
Performance Measure: Organizing/Planning/Problem Solving

Faculty Development

Academic integrity and the disciplinary process are two of the most important aspects of the teaching profession, yet are unclear to most instructors. This session will explain both and have you better prepared to meet the demands of education.

Target Audience: Faculty
Instructor: Jimmie Bruce and Diana Muniz

Faculty Development

Grade inflation often happens without us realizing it. This session will show you how to correct innocent mistakes so everyone in your course receives the grade they earned.

Target Audience: Faculty
Instructor: William Keith
Performance Measure: Organizing/Planning/Problem Solving