The CEE Individual Development Plan (IDP) Software
The CEE Individual Development Plan (IDP) software is an online portfolio management system that captures the participant's journey through the CEE Faculty Development Program. The system can also be used to record developmental activities completed outside of the CEE program. The IDP serves as a platform for instructors and coaches to collaborate on identified performance-based outcomes and links instructor training directly to each participant's individual development goals. The software includes an export function to output completed forms (in standard PDF format) for submission to accrediting agencies.
Below are the core components of the CEE IDP software:
Goals: Instructors list the performance goals that they have identified in consultation with their coach. Each identified goal includes a brief description on how accomplishing the goal will benefit the instructor, the students and the institution.
Activities: In collaboration with their coach, instructors identify and plan the developmental activities that will help them achieve their established goals. Each entered activity must be linked to one or more goals and the software allows for categorization (and sub-categorization) of the activities in the areas of instructional skills, content knowledge and personal growth.
Barriers: Instructors identify the potential barriers that may get in the way of completing their planned activities and accomplishing their goals. They note what they can do to manage or overcome the impact of each barrier.
Sources of Support: Instructors identify the support resources they need to accomplish their goals and note how each support will be provided.
Action Plan: The entered goals, activities, barriers, and sources of support are used to create a personalized action plan for the instructor. The action plan includes the planned completion date for each activity and allows the instructor to enter the actual completion dates.
Progress: Throughout the year, instructors note the benchmarks that demonstrate progress toward their specific goals. A benchmark is an interim milestone and/or checkpoint such as the completion of a step or task. For each benchmark, instructors note what is working well and what is not.
Activity Report: An up-to-date record of an instructor's completed activities is available to the instructor and his/her coach at any time during the development period.
Accomplished Goals: Once all activities linked to a particular goal are completed, relevant information and data can be entered to assess whether or not the goal has actually been accomplished. The assessment process includes self-evaluation, evaluation from the instructor's coach, and a summary of relevant student evaluations. In each evaluation, the outcomes reflect the performance improvement achieved over the period of the development plan.
Learn more about the CEE Faculty Development Program
Baseline Assessment
As participants begin the CEE Faculty Development Program, they have the option of completing an initial baseline assessment. This assessment is comprised of a series of questions that are mapped to nationally established competency standards for career education instructors. Based on a participant's responses, specific training courses are recommended. The assessment is not an appraisal of teaching performance or experience, rather it is a resource to help instructors, in collaboration with their faculty coaches, choose training options that best support their individual development goals.
Instructor Observation
Each core training cycle in the CEE Faculty Development Program culminates with the instructor observation. This observation, supplemented by observer guidelines and observation instruments from the CEE, provides instructors the opportunity to demonstrate, and the faculty coaches to observe and assess, specific and agreed upon training applications from each course. Instructor observations add a measurable feature to the program as instructors are achieving their own goals and improving performance.
Training Course
In concert with individual development goals, baseline knowledge assessment recommendations and collaboration with the faculty coach, participants take three online training courses on an annual basis. Each course begins a training cycle that includes online and onsite activities and observations designed to transfer immediate concepts and applications to the classroom. Facilitated by an expert in the field, each online course in the program creates an interactive and asynchronous learning experience through content, assessments and discussion forums.
Discussion Meeting
To enhance the application of training to the classroom, faculty coaches, after each core training course, facilitate onsite discussion meetings with their instructors. These meetings provide faculty the opportunity to further discuss course topics, applications, questions and examples with their coaches and with each other in a post-course, onsite environment. The CEE provides faculty coaches both guidelines and sample questions for the discussion meetings.
Performance Forum
Working in concert with the onsite post-course discussion meetings, the online performance forums allow instructors to reconnect with the CEE facilitators and other program participants to discuss current questions, comments, issues or examples. Each core course in the program has its own post-course performance forum to enhance transfer of training to the workplace and provide just-in-time opportunities for instructors to continuously improve their teaching performance.
Learning Webinars
As faculty coaches provide feedback to instructors and assess training outcomes, they may request focused learning webinars to address specific training issues and performance objectives. This allows for an additional enhancement of training by customizing webinar outcomes to the needs of each institution. The webinars provide an opportunity for participants to have live interactions with CEE expert facilitators through discussions on the selected topics. Webinars are provided for both faculty coaches and instructional staff.
Success Tutorials
Success Tutorials are condensed, self-paced, non-facilitated tutorials that address workplace success skills in areas such as career development, communication, creativity, management and leadership. Though CEU credit is not offered through these tutorials, they provide valuable and informal learning opportunities that are available online anytime to program participants.
Faculty Development Guide
The CEE online Faculty Development Guide provides comprehensive guidelines for every component of the program and is the central resource for management and faculty coaches in the implementation of all program activities. The guide is designed to maximize transfer of training by providing techniques and strategies for effective implementation of the program. Included in the guide are downloadable tools and instruments to use for faculty discussion meetings and instructor observations.
Training Activity Reports
The CEE Faculty Development Program provides online training activity reports that can be accessed at any time. These reports allow participants to privately view their individual progress and activities as they proceed through the program. Additionally, reports on all participants may be accessed by faculty coaches, administrators or managers, identified by the institution, to keep a pulse on overall program outcomes and participant accountability.
Coaching Support
In addition to all of the online resources, coaching support by email or phone is always available to assist subscribed institutions in the implementation of the CEE Faculty Development Program. The CEE staff works closely, every step of the way, with faculty coaches as they utilize the Faculty Development Guide to facilitate the transfer of training activities.
Knowledge Assessments
As instructors progress through their CEE training courses they may take a series of interactive knowledge assessments that include questions from the original baseline knowledge assessment. These assessments provide immediate feedback and help to prepare participants for the Certified Postsecondary Instructor (CPI) exam administered by the National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT). For instructors who do not wish to proceed with the CPI exam, the assessments still provide an ongoing evaluation of a participant's mastery of training content.
Certified Postsecondary Instructor
The National Center for Competency Testing (NCCT) administers the Certified Postsecondary Instructor (CPI) exam. This exam, based upon instructor competencies identified by the NCCT, is recognized as a benchmark for successful teaching in career education. Completion of CEE core training courses helps to prepare an instructor for the CPI exam. Once earning the designation of CPI, twelve hours of continuing education credits are required to maintain CPI status. Continued subscription to our program ensures that instructors meet this requirement.
Continuing Education
The CEE Faculty Development Program provides four hours of continuing education credit for successful completion of each online course, or twelve hours of continuing education credit for each instructor during the subscription year. Therefore, continued subscription to our program fulfills annual continuing education requirements for Certified Postsecondary Instructors as well as the professional development requirements for career college licensing and accrediting agencies. While CEUs provide valuable documentation of an instructor's professional development activities, our program's continuing education focus is on the ongoing accomplishment of each instructor's goals and improvement of teaching performance.
Feedback and Analysis
At the heart and center of the CEE Faculty Development Program is the ongoing feedback and analysis among the instructors, faculty coaches and the program itself. From the initial baseline assessment and individual development plan to the courses, discussions, and instructor observations each program component provides the opportunity for the instructor and faculty coach to concentrate on training outcomes in relationship to specific instructional goals and teaching performance. Additionally, constant data is provided on each instructor's progression through the program.
Individual Development Plan
The Individual Development Plan (IDP) is a self-developed, professional development portfolio that captures the participant's journey through the program. This online portfolio management system can also be used to record developmental activities completed outside of the CEE Faculty Development Program. The IDP serves as a platform for instructors and coaches to collaborate on identified performance-based outcomes and customizes instructor training by linking course content and applications directly to each participant's individual development goals. The IDP may be used to document an instructor's development activities for accrediting and licensing agencies. It serves as a documented summary of the participant's learning experience and results achieved.
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