Staff Resource Center

Meeting Your Professional Learning Goals

Faculty are required to have a certain number of hours of professional learning each year by contract. This is known as the Flex obligation. We believe that everyone can benefit from professional learning for personal and professional growth and that all can enjoy our events, whether they qualify for Flex Credit or not.  

As an SCC employee, you can accomplish your professional learning goals by regularly engaging in PD with your colleagues. Often you may find yourself enjoying professional learning outside of Los Rios, either through travel to conferences or seminars, webinars from outside organizations devoted to antiracism, community courses or events, or elsewhere.

Professional Learning Categories

There are five main categories of professional learning, although many professional learning opportunities may intersect multiple categories:

• Student support and engagement
  Previously this may have been known as classroom management.

• Institutional Effectiveness
  A continuous cycle for planning, assessing, analyzing, and improving processes, programs, and services that support the University's mission and vision.

• Personal & Professional Growth

• Instruction & Pedagogy

• Technology

How Learning Events Are Created

You can also influence your professional learning and the learning of others by suggesting opportunities that we may provide that will make our offerings more holistic, or by yourself facilitating a professional learning opportunity for others from the knowledge and experience you’ve gained in your own journey.

The Staff Resource Center coordinates professional learning opportunities often in conjunction with affinity groups such as the Cultural Engagement Centers. Affinity groups and centers will also offer their own professional learning opportunities. All of these are reflected in the Calendar of Events.  Those events in the calendar that are approved for Flex Credit are highlighted as such.

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