COTE Customized Training Catalog

COTE Customized Training Catalog

for Faculty, Staff & Administration

2018-19

What COTE Offers

The Center for Organizational and Teaching Excellence (COTE) provides training and support for faculty
and staff at LSC-Tomball. Professional development workshops are available throughout the year, and to
enhance the learning experience, we also offer certification & customized training. All workshops are
focused on the COTE Instructional Professional Development Tags:

COTE Instructional Professional Development Tags

The Center for Organizational and Teaching Excellence (COTE) will be centering our programming
around the following four Professional Development Categories:

Culture: Provide professional development
opportunities focusing upon nurturing a culture of
respect and collaboration.

Employee Development: Professional
development focused on the learning and
development of employees.

Curriculum Enhancement: Provide professional
development relating to curriculum redesign and/or
enhancement for the purpose of increasing student success.

Persistence: Provide professional development opportunities focused upon data
and course-based actions related to the goal of increasing student persistence.

Key Performance Indicators (KPI)

COTE strives to provide workshops that support the achievement of the Key Performance Indicators (KPI).
Customized training that enhances the overall performance of faculty and staff, resulting in student and
institutional success.

Partnerships

Certificates Persistence
& Degrees

Overall Successful KPI Developmental
Course Completion Reading & Writing

Completion

Financial Developmental
Math &

Completion

Transfer

COTE Customized Training

Customized training can be requested by departments to focus on job specific development and/or
performance enhancement. Training will be developed and scheduled based on departmental needs. For
more information click on the Customized Training link for available workshops and descriptions. Please
complete the COTE Customized Training Request Form to begin the process.

Audience Categories

• Faculty Development • Communications/Public Speaking
• Cultural Diversity
• Adjunct Faculty Development • Technology
• Life Path Integration
• Staff Development (All Departments) • Safety & Security
• Leadership
• Administrator Development
(Director level and up)

Supervisor Art of Delegation
Success Delegating allows you time to work on more important matters while
developing your employees. This session teaches managers the skills
(LSC-CSSS) necessary to delegate effectively, examines why we don’t delegate, and
explores the resulting consequences.

cCaarmrpyus Campus Carry: The Basics
The Basics presentation will provide an overview of Texas gun law and how
it will affect campus life.

Choose Your Own Emotions
We experience many emotions every day. This workshop will explore how
to make choices in how we react emotionally to the various challenges we
face.

Civitas - Inspire for Advisors (LSC-2627)
Participants will be instructed on how to better track their student’s persistence
at Lone Star College through the CIVITAS program.

Civitas - Introduction to Civitas Illume (LSC-2746)
This session will provide a tour of Illume’s basic features and tools.

Civitas Training: Illume in Depth (LSC-2879)
Upon completion of this training, participants will be able to log into Illume
student applications, identify student groups in need of support in the current
term, and create custom student lists. Participants will watch a video in a
classroom setting.

Supervisor Conflict Resolution
Success This workshop will provide employees with the necessary tools to resolve
conflicts quickly and effectively.
(LSC-CSSS)

Create Your Own videos with One Button Studio
Participants will receive hands-on training in the One Button Studio which
is a video production studio that enhances teaching and learning at LSC-
Tomball, allowing students and faculty to record video content with no
technical expertise required.


Creating Fillable Forms Using
Adobe® Acrobat Pro & Google Drive
Learn the fillable forms capabilities of Adobe Acrobat Pro and Google
Drive. Learn the steps used in creating a variety of fillable forms. Learn how
to retrieve and utilize data from completed forms.

Customer Service: Connect & Commit
Identify key relationships with internal and external customers and work
toward building rapport with your customers. Learn effective, empathic, and
focused communications skills to help deliver quality service.

D2L Desire2Learn (D2L) Open Labs
D2L Open Labs are facilitated, non-structured workspaces for faculty learning
Desire2Learn to use the D2L interface. Participants may come-and-go at will, and work
independently or with knowledgeable facilitators.
D2L
Desire2Learn (D2L) Special Topics: Semester End
Desire2Learn This one hour, hands-on course provides the steps to take at the end of
the semester to extract Final Exam, Attendance and Gradebook from
D2L the Desire2Learn (D2L) learning management system (LMS) for reporting
purposes.
Desire2Learn
Desire2Learn (D2L): Intelligent Agents
Track student activity and send automatic email notifications from your online
courses. Desire2Learn (D2L): Intelligent Agents can be used to provide early
warning notifications for low performance, to praise high performance and
for reminders.

Supervisor Difficult or Just Different?
Success This interactive session will offer participants techniques for dealing with
difficult people in the workplace. It will also highlight perception and how it
(LSC-CSSS) may cloud the reality of the situation deemed difficult.

Supervisor Emotional Intelligence: Emotions at Work
Success Identify the components of emotional intelligence in the workplace, and be
able to identify situations at work that cause emotional reactions.
(LSC-CSSS)

Supervisor Generational Differences
Success This interactive workshop will provide information regarding the differences
among the various generations. The value of diversified workplace
(LSC-CSSS) perspectives will be discussed.

LSC-TOMBALL GRIT Certification
Through the GRIT Certification Program, faculty will learn how to create a
GLOBAL classroom experience grounded in grit and growth mindset. Over the course
of one semester, faculty will attend 6 sessions, earning 12-15 professional
GRIT development hours, and they will demonstrate their understanding of
INITIATIVE creating a gritty classroom experience through various assignments and a
EST. 2016 capstone project.

byod Growing Your GRIT Apps
This learning circle for both Android™ and iPad™ users is designed to meet
Bring your own device monthly. We will focus each month on one app from the following areas to
help Grow Your GRIT: 1. Wellness 2. Educational and 3. Other


How Full is Your Bucket
Learn the power of positivity and the destructive power of negativity. Identify
the bucket fillers and bucket dippers in your daily routine. Walk away with
tools to deliver a candid feedback to others.

Intro to Microsoft® Publisher
An introductory level activity on the basics of working with Microsoft
Publisher.

GwehnaetrwataionntsZ! what Marketing to Millennials & Generation Z
Who are Millennials? What do they care about, and what moves them to
Millwenanniatl!s action? Go beyond your current perceptions millennials and explore the
next generation to take the stage, Generation Z.

Mindfulness
Learn about the state of active, open attention on the present, called
Mindfulness.

Analytical Less Responsiveness Driver People Styles
Identify your communication style and learn to identify the communication
Less Assertiveness More style of others. Utilize the knowledge and information gained to communicate
effectively.
Amiable Expressive

More Preparing Adjuncts for the Next Step Full-Time
This seminar will cover three key areas in preparing for interviewing for
faculty: A teaching portfolio which includes the Curriculum Vitae (CV) and
cover letter, Interviewing Skills and impactful Teaching Demonstrations.
Workshops will provide techniques and tips on the teaching portfolio and
interview tips. Registered attendees will have the opportunity to present
a teaching demonstration and participate in mock interviews with expert
leaders. Participants will receive immediate and specific feedback on their
interviews and teaching demonstrations.
Problem Solving – Inventing Solutions to Problems
Learn various methods for working through a problem and gain a sense of
empowerment in being a problem solver! (Supervisor Success Certification
Course)


Scheduling Events on Active Calendar
Learn how to make events and submit them for online publishing on Active
Calendar. This workshop will take users from their free account registration
to creating their own events and submitting them step-by-step. Once the
basics have been covered, the instructor will show the back-end processes
of event publication onto the calendar, common errors and how to deal with
them, and answer other questions provided by attendees.
Seeing Beyond Your Own Cultural Reality
It is critical that the learning environment support the increasingly diverse
student population and offer purposeful and intentional services that support
student’s success. In line with corporate values, faculty must teach with respect
and foster growth of our students in a diverse and inclusive community.


Seizure Recognition & First-Aid
Seizure training provides instructors and other school personnel with
information needed to recognize seizures, respond with appropriate first
aid, and understand the impact seizures have on students.

Something to Chew on: Let’s Discuss Syllabus
Are you saying what you want with your syllabus? This session will fully
explore how to improve your syllabus, along with strategies, benefits, and
how you can use this document to convey the tone of the entire course.


Something to Chew on: Theming Your Courses
Faculty, have you ever thought about adding a theme to your course? This
session will introduce participants to what this means. We will cover strategies,
benefits, and issues to consider, and lessons learned in incorporating a
theme to your courses


Teaching with Technology: Lynda.com Featuring Microsoft®
Excel and Outlook Tips & Tricks
Introduce basic techniques for creating spreadsheets, managing emails and
calendars.

Teaching with Technology: Lynda.com Featuring Microsoft®
Excel: Pivot Tables
This workshop explores Pivot Tables in Excel which can help you to
summarize, analyze, explore and present your data.

Teaching with Technology: Lynda.com Featuring Prezi®
Prezi® is the best way to create and show the relation and context
of the information in a map format without the constrain of having
slides in a sequence.


Time Management: Facing Procrastination and “Time Snatchers”
Managing time can become a challenge in all areas of life. This interactive
session will explore inhibitors that challenge our productivity, “time snatchers”
and offer practical tips and tools to prevent procrastination and improve
time management.


Trello® Training
Learn the basics of this intuitive project management tool, including how to
navigate the Trello app and how to use some of the program’s key features.


What You Say Matters
Understand your personal communication and styles and learn to model
communication geared towards others communication styles. Practice
Effective Listening.

COTE Customized Training for Administrators

Understanding Key Performance indicators (KPI)

SACSCOC 101

SACS COCTM

Texas Higher Education Board 101

Texas Higher Education
Coordinating Board

Understanding The College Budget

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COTE Customized Training Request Form

The Center for Organizational and Teaching Excellence can design and develop a customized training solution to meet the
needs of your department that will align with departmental goals and objectives.

Below is a description of the training available. If you have a need for a topic not included, provide additional information.
Please complete the COTE Customized Training Request Form.

Name* _____________________________________________________________________________________________________
Department* ________________________________________________________________________________________________
Office Phone* _______________________________________________________________________________________________
Work Email* ________________________________________________________________________________________________

Training Needs

Number of Participants* ________________

□ □ □Please select the target audience for the training*:
Faculty Staff Administrators (Director Level or Above)

Training Desired: _____________________________________________________________________________________________

Please provide any additional training needs or comments:
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Training Date and Time

In an effort to accommodate your training request, please provide two date/time options for consideration.

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Please submit this form to Kentrie LeDee at [email protected]
or bring to the COTE office in E-271.