ARC Equity and Culturally Response Online Teaching Institute/Foundations 2.0 Spring 2023 Registration

ARC Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching Institute

Some students in our system face big hurdles in their journey to a certificate, AA degree, or transfer. Helping students surmount these hurdles requires a personal commitment to the work, institutional changes and support, and daily implementation of culturally responsive teaching practices. During this Institute, we will:

• take a detailed look at the opportunity gap in online courses, 
• explore statewide and institutional approaches to reducing the opportunity gap,
• explore our own role in enacting solutions,
• create an equity-minded syllabus, and
• develop an action plan for our online courses that integrates equity and culturally responsive teaching strategies.

Learning Outcomes

To successfully complete this course, participants will:

• Analyze their assumptions and beliefs about the diverse students served by California community colleges,
• Interrogate the alignment of their teaching values and teaching practices,
• Apply principles of Culturally Responsive Teaching & Learning (CRTL) to their online course,
• Identify and discuss course-level barriers that disproportionately impact minoritized students including unconscious bias, microaggressions, stereotype threat, and privilege and power,
• Create an equity-minded course syllabus leveraging peer feedback that welcomes and supports all students, and
• Write an action plan that describes how they will continue to advance their equity-minded online teaching practices.

Spring 2023 Schedule

The American River College Spring 2023 ARC Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching Institute is scheduled for four online sessions between March 24, 2023 through April 20, 2023.

Requirements for Completion

To receive the certificate of completion, you must complete all of the following:

• Participation in all required discussions
• Completion of all assigned activities and exercises with a score of 85% or higher
• Receive a final grade of 85% or higher

Certificates will be issued for completion of the entire Institute.

Hours Required

This is a 4-week course. Participants will need to devote approximately 8-10 hours per week to reading, online discussions, and assignments.

Recommended Skills

• Proficient computer skills (use of word processor, e-mail, file management)
• Proficient Internet skills (use of browsers, searches, uploading and downloading files)
• Familiarity with discussion boards
• Experience in an online learning environment as either a student or instructor

Technical Requirements

• Access to a PC or Mac with a current operating system
• Current version of a browser
• Internet connection, preferably broadband (DSL speeds)
• Built-in or external webcam
• USB microphone

Incomplete Policy

Participants may request an incomplete in this Institute if they have met the attendance requirements and have finished at least 60% of the work. Incomplete work must be finished within one year, or the entire Institute must be repeated.

Special Compensation Information for Spring 2023 Foundations 2.0 Professional Development Opportunity

If you have already completed the Online Teaching Institute (OTI) or prefer a more targeted, 40-hour training and have completed the 15-hour Foundations 1.0 or comparable training as a prerequisite, you are eligible to enroll in the ARC Equity & Culturally Responsive Teaching Institute to fulfill the Foundations 2.0 Professional Development opportunity. When you register you will be asked to select from the following compensation options as agreed to by the LRCFT and LRCCD:

Full-Time Faculty select one option –

• 1.33 Units of Salary Class Advancement
• Stipend $1,691.20
• 40 College Service Hours

Part-Time Faculty select one option –

• 1.33 Units of Salary Class Advancement
• Stipend $1,691.20

Upon successful completion of the course, your name will be forwarded to district for automatic issuance of the compensation option you pre-selected.

Additional Notes

Priority will be given to ARC employees who are scheduled to teach online at ARC.

Questions about the Equity & Culturally Responsive Online Teaching Institute? Contact Pamela Bimbi, bimbip@arc.losrios.edu

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