Outline
The Center for Excellence in Education (CEE) offers an online, comprehensive faculty development program for career colleges and universities. All instructors (including part-time faculty) at participating institutions receive 12 hours of online training on an annual basis. Instructors are awarded Continuing Education Units (CEUs) upon completion of each training course.
Our faculty development program for on-ground instructors incorporates the competency standards identified by the Career College Association and the instructional skill competencies identified by the National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT). We offer a guided development plan which includes preparation for NCCT's Certified Postsecondary Instructor (CPI) examination and annual continuing education programs to maintain the CPI status.
Our faculty development program for online instructors incorporates the National Standards for Quality Online Teaching adopted by the North American Council for Online Learning (NACOL). And we have customized the NACOL standards for career education settings.
While certification and CEUs provide valuable documentation of an instructor's knowledge and professional development activities, we take pride in the impact of our program on bottom-line results. Our unique methodologies and expert facilitators create an unparalleled system for maximizing faculty performance and student retention.
Activities
Faculty Development Program for On-ground Instructors
Click here to launch and review the program flowchart. The flowchart provides a description of each component of the program, including the implementation support tools and services that are provided to management and faculty coaches.
Faculty Development Program for Online Instructors
Click here to launch and review the program flowchart. The flowchart provides a description of each component of the program, including the implementation support tools and services that are provided to management and faculty coaches.
Subscription Info
In response to the needs of career college operators, we offer our faculty development program on an annual subscription basis. The program provides each and every instructor at the participating institutions 12 hours of training and continuing education per year. You can include all your adjunct/part-time instructors in the program. No additional fees apply.
To learn more about our faculty development program and pricing structure, please call us at 1-888-626-2407 or email info@iaf-cee.org.
Knowledge Assessements
Our knowledge assessments have been developed in cooperation with the National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT). First time users take a baseline assessment modeled after NCCT's Certified Postsecondary Instructor (CPI) examination. Upon completion of the baseline assessment, participants receive recommendations on which training courses to take to help them develop their instructional knowledge and skills. A number of follow-up assessments provide participants with an interactive learning experience and further prepare participants for the CPI examination.
Training Courses
We offer a wide variety of online training courses to maximize the performance of career college instructors, including a number of core courses that have been mapped to the competency standards identified by the Career College Association and Imagine America Foundation taskforce and the instructional skill competencies identified by the National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT). A guided development plan prepares the participants for NCCT's Certified Postsecondary Instructor (CPI) examination. Click here for a list of currently available courses.
Our online courses are facilitated and supported by our expert faculty. Each course provides 4 hours of training and continuing education credits. Participating instructors complete three courses per year (12 hours of training). Successful completion of an online course requires participation in the course forums as well as passing the course assessments. Click here to learn more about the format of our online courses.
Performance Forums
In addition to the discussion forums in our online courses, we offer a number of performance forums that are designed to boost instructor performance. Similar to the knowledge assessments, our performance forums are learning opportunities outside the course environment. The performance forums provide a medium to enhance transfer of training to the workplace. After all, results are what matter.
Developed in cooperation with the National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT), our performance forums are facilitated by our expert faculty who act as implementation coaches to guide and help participating instructors apply what they have learned. The performance forums also provide the opportunity for instructors to discuss their challenges, ask questions from our expert facilitators and share their workplace experiences with other instructors. The ultimate objective of the performance forums is to turn training into performance.
Learning Webinars
Instructors have the opportunity to have live interactions with our expert faculty through our Learning Webinars. Our webinars are one-hour tailored presentations focused on a particular issue or topic requested by a subscribed institution. The webinars combine a slide show presentation with a teleconference bridge. Attendees have the opportunity to ask questions and participate in discussions during the Q/A portion of the webinar.
Success Tutorials
In addition to faculty training courses, we offer instructors a variety of online tutorials on general topics related to workplace success. Subject areas include communications, career development, creativity, innovation, management and leadership. Click here to see a list of currently available tutorials.
New Instructors
Provide immediate training to your newly hired instructors. With just-in-time training, you can be sure that your brand new instructors have the basic knowledge and skills to teach in a career college setting. With our recommended development plan, each and every new instructor will receive the same high quality orientation to classroom or online teaching.
Certificates/CEUs are awarded to provide documentation of completed training and an assessment of readiness to begin teaching, useful for the participating schools and their accrediting agencies or licensing bodies. Our on-demand, cost-effective training will save you time and money. You will only be left with the task of orienting your new instructors to your own specific policies and procedures.
Adjunct Instructors
If you are like most career college operators, you probably have many adjunct/part-time instructors. You hire subject matter experts working in the field to bring current industry experience into your classrooms. Put your subject matters experts (SMEs) on a path to become instructional delivery experts (IDEs). Provide immediate training to your newly hired part-time instructors as well as continuing education and training to improve their teaching effectiveness.
Adjunct/part-time instructors are an integral part of many career college operations. Because of time and schedule constraints, it is usually very difficult for part-time instructors to participate in onsite/in-service training workshops. Provide your adjunct instructors with an effective professional development program and make them feel fully connected to your institution by giving them the opportunity to join an active online learning community of career college instructors. You can include all your adjunct/part-time instructors in the program. No additional fees apply.
Experienced Instructors
Experienced instructors know that one can never stop to learn. Learning is a life-long process. CEE's faculty development program offers a variety of advanced courses as well as development opportunities outside of the traditional training environment such as the Performance Forums and The Lounge.
In The Lounge, instructors can exercise their own thoughts and reflections, and make connections with other colleagues who have similar interests. The Lounge empowers the program participants to create their own personal profiles, announce their learning and development interests, create learning groups, post blogs, and initiate discussions.
With our program, you can be sure that your experienced instructors are continuously engaged in an effective professional development program designed to maximize their teaching performance.
Below are a few benefits of engaging your experienced instructors in our faculty development program.
To provide them with the opportunity to address real-life cases with the help of our expert facilitators;
To provide them with the opportunity to discover new tools that will assist them in their on-ground or online classrooms;
To provide them with the opportunity to develop strategies for assessing new situations and addressing new challenges;
To provide them with unbiased expert advice on significant classroom issues or conflicts that might otherwise force them out of the field;
To provide them with the support they need to do their jobs to the best of their abilities, increasing job satisfaction, commitment, and professional pride;
To motivate them to set and achieve professional goals;
To set them on a course of life-long learning;
To help you retain your effective instructors and increase your student retention rates.
Instructor Certification
We award certificates/CEUs for completion of our online courses and provide a variety of tools and supplemental activities to enhance the transfer of training to the workplace. To further validate our training and to provide an incentive for participating institutions and their instructors, we offer a number of core courses to prepare instructors for the Certified Postsecondary Instructor (CPI) examination administered by the National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT) and the Certified Online Postsecondary instructor (COPI) administered by MaxKnowledge.
NCCT is an independent, third-party organization that has certified more than 150,000 individuals by examination in various occupational fields. NCCT examinations are job-related, criterion-referenced tests designed to assess a candidate's performance against predetermined competency standards. These standards are created by a role delineation process (a job analysis survey) that insures that NCCT standards meet the expectations of all stakeholders. Role delineation determines the significant job tasks to test, and at what domain and level of learning they should be tested. Even after tests are created, they are assessed regularly to meet psychometric standards for test validity.
Continuing education is required on an annual basis to maintain the CPI or COPI status, providing accrediting agencies and licensing bodies with an automatic outcome measure of faculty development. The continuing education requirement also provides participating colleges with the piece of mind that their instructors are continuously learning to maximize their performance. Furthermore, you can gain a competitive edge in the marketplace by showing that your faculty are certified instructors.
Bottom Line
The bottom line is that:
When instructors teach effectively, students learn (increased
competence)
When students learn, they stay in school (increased retention)
When competent students graduate, they become employed (increased
placement)
When graduates are employed, they pay back student loans (decreased
defaults)
When graduates are happy about a school, they tell others (free
marketing)
When your reputation builds up, more people want to attend your school
(increased enrollment)
The most direct and significant impact of our faculty development program is
on student retention. That is because our program has been developed exclusively
for career college instructors with a focus on strategies and techniques to
motivate and retain students. Also, our program helps you retain your good
instructors and faculty retention directly affects student retention.
