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Chapter 6Educational Activities

Different efforts have been made infuse the AFC mission through work-shops, presentations and a webinar. The topics were general and addressedareas of concern to all employees such as the ones below:

Building Quality Online CoursesBy Professors Lisa Ciardulli and Sharon Rifkin

How to Energize Students in the ClassroomBy Professors Denise Brown and Lisa Bernstein

Faculty-Student Affairs Collaboration: The conversation café experienceBy Dr. Oluyinka Tella

President’s Leadership AcademyThe AFC Broward Chapter ruled the leadership arena this year! We are

proud to announce that 14 AFC members were selected to participate in the2010-11 President’s Leadership Academy as show below.Jaimee BakerClaudette BurkeSimone ChampagnieHillary FoxEileen GarciaMark GriffinTrish JoyceKaren Young MagnusAvis McCoyMiguel RamirezDalila RodriguezJulia Vattiato

After a preliminary selection, leadership training sessions were heldonce a month for eight consecutive months. Participants interacted with promi-nent guest speakers from within and outside of Broward College’s LeadershipAcademy. They also conducted research and presented team projects to ben-efit the college. This was a program of great benefit to this fortunate group ofAFC members who participated.

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PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT DAY WORKSHOP EVALUATION

How to Energize Your Students in Class Instructor(s): Denise Brown, Lisa Bernstein

February 25, 2011 22 Employees signed in - 7 Evaluations 1. The presenter(s) met the objectives and learning outcomes of the workshop.

4 Strongly Agree 2 Agree 1 Neutral 0 Disagree 0 Strongly Disagree 57% 29% 14% 0% 0%

• Excellent presentation, both of the presenters were very knowledgeable. • The presentation did not seem as energize as expected.

2. The presenter’s overall effectiveness was high.

4 Strongly Agree 3 Agree 0 Neutral 0 Disagree 0 Strongly Disagree 57% 43% 0% 0% 0%

• But the class seemed to deal more with health issues than with techniques on how to energize the students and keep their attention.

• The effectiveness of the presenters was evident in the fact that I learned some useful techniques for application with my students

3. The workshop was valuable to my professional development.

2 Strongly Agree 4 Agree 1 Neutral 0 Disagree 0 Strongly Disagree 29% 57% 14% 0% 0%

• This is one of the best classes that I have recently attended.

*All comments are exactly as written by respondents.

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Broward Chapter AFC members Denise Brown (upper left) and Oliyunka Tella at the University of Florida.

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