Teaching Learning Center
About the TLC
The Teaching Learning Centers (TLC) at Portland Community College promote excellence in teaching, professional growth, and student services. The centers play a critical role in building a community of learners and creating campus environments which encourage innovation. The centers serve as campus leaders and act as catalysts for open and ongoing dialog. Please submit your events to the TLC Calendar, and check out the new assessment blog.
TLC Mission
The Teaching Learning Center (TLC) offers a communal space that promotes professional development, personal enrichment, and community engagement. Our goal is to help support and renew all faculty, staff, academic professionals, and administrators, in order to better serve our students, the college, and ourselves.
The TLC is committed to offering quality educational programs that promote best practices, facilitate innovation, present technology updates, and enhance a variety of teaching and learning styles and techniques.
Anderson Conference Resources
Did you miss the Anderson Conference? Were you there and want to share with colleagues or review for yourself? We are archiving documents and video from previous conferences from the Anderson Conference. More resources will be added soon!
Online Instructors: Looking for training in Accessibility?
Karen Sorensen is offering training sessions on Accessibility Guidelines, Making Documents Accessible and Video Captioning. These session offerings are both online and on-campus at your PCC location. View the training schedule and register for a session today!
TLC Programs
The TLC collaborates with divisions, departments, and committees to provide a diversity of events, for a variety of audiences. From speakers and panel presentations to hands-on activities and group discussions, we hope that you will find some TLC events that meet your needs and interests. We strive to schedule programs at varying times and advertise our events through our calendar, over email, and on our webpage. There are many things happening at PCC that are designed to meet the widespread and frequently-voiced faculty desire for deeper and more meaningful collaboration around student learning. You can sign up for these activities today!
Structured conversations between Adjunct and Full-time Faculty
In many PCC offices, PT teachers sit with other PTers. FT faculty may not even know who teaches in their discipline. When people are separated and rarely meet, even for casual interaction, misconceptions and stereotypes never get corrected. Using a conversation guide from Public Conversations Project, we will try to talk through these divides, to get to what brings us together: better serving our students' needs. Sign up here!
Critical Friends Groups, organized out of the TLCs
Educators across the nation are discovering the value of working in collaborative groups to talk over their teaching successes and challenges.This summer, 14 instructors from PCC were trained in one of the most successful formats for collaboration, Critical Friends. Groups of 8 to 10 instructors are forming now. For more information, or to request to join a group, contact Sally Earll at 971-722-7812. You can also request information here.
A new hybrid assessment class designed to fit even busy and hectic schedules!
We will meet for two hours face-to-face on Friday November 4th, from 10am to noon. The class continues for four weeks, online (using D2L), and then concludes with a two hour face-to-face session on Friday Dec 2, from 10am to noon. Sign up here!