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For residential faculty, this event has been pre-approved for 3.5 clock hours of Faculty Professional Growth (FPG) non-academic advancement.
Teaching--Work Engaging the Heart Dialogue Day
The Ideas of Parker Palmer in Our Lives Today
April 4, 2003
Estrella Mountain Community College
Center for Teaching and Learning
11:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Dr. Monica Manning
This day is an opportunity for faculty that have been influenced by the work of Parker Palmer ot gather and delve into his most recent work especially as it relates to our classrooms and colleges.
Dr. Monica Manning of Nova Learning will lead the discussion on how we can nurture and strengthen our institutions and our classrooms.
Many of our faculty have been inspired by reading and listening to the words of Parker Palmer. We rarely take the time, however, to connect with our colleagues to talk about how his ideas could shape our work and our colleges. Join with Monica Manning and with faculty colleagues for an afternoon of dialogue about the work Parker calls a "spirituality" of education.
We'll explore and learn from each other what he means by describing teaching as creating a space where a community of truth is practiced. We'll talk about ways to sustain our gifts as teachers by creating communities that support our working with courage and with heart.
Some of the questions you'll be invited to reflect on include...
- What would be different/better for me if I found new ways to balance "covering so much material" with relating that material to the questions in the hearts of my students?
- How would my teaching with courage have impact on how students engage with the material, with each other, and with me? How would learning be different? How could I assess this learning?
- What are the barriers I let get in the way of my exploring more deeply what it means to teach with heart?
 Dr. Monica Manning
Monica M. Manning is an independent educator and co-founder and Executive Officer of Nova Learning, a national education firm working with colleges and universities dedicated to implementing systemic change and ongoing improvement. Nova Learning seeks out and manages or provides research for new initiatives which support innovation in higher education. For twenty-five years, the creation of new collaborations combining the resources of industry, education, and government to address the technological, economic, and educational changes in the work world has been a special focus for Dr. Manning. Examples of such efforts range from the creation of a national consortium of engineering universities working cooperatively with industry to create and implement technology-based teaching materials in undergraduate education to an electronic data base of academic expertise available to business and industry throughout the State of Minnesota. While continuing to lead Nova Learning, Dr. Manning served as Senior Fellow of the American Association for Higher Education and Executive Director of the AAHE Academic Quality Consortium. The Consortium provides leadership to the adaptation of continuous improvement of quality to higher education. Dr. Manning received Baccalaureate and Masters degrees from the University of Illinois in Rhetoric and Public Address; her Ph.D. is from the University of Minnesota in Higher Education Administration; and she holds a post-doctoral Masters in Public Administration from Harvard University. Dr. Manning's career began in Minnesota higher education as a faculty member initially at Anoka Ramsey Community College and later at North Hennepin Community College. Prior to receiving a Bush Leadership Fellowship to study at Harvard, she served as Associate Academic Dean and then as Dean of Continuing Education at Lakewood Community College.
Faculty Professional Growth
This Dialogue Day has been pre-approved for 3.5 clock hours of Faculty Professional Growth non-academic advancement.
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