Faculty Guide for UMN Crookston CIHS Professional Development Workshop 

Meet as a cohort on campus during the year, or meet on campus the first Monday in June each year.

Professional development (PD) and interaction with instructors is a good program practice. Below are the main National Concurrent Enrollment Partnership Standards (NACEP) standards that faculty fulfill by participating with the College in the High School (CIHS) workshop. The F3 Standard is the main  reason we created an all-encompassing workshop, or you can meet with instructors during the school year on  campus. These standards guide your time with the instructors. Anything that you feel will enhance the  teaching of the course is going to be appropriate (see F3 & C2).

During the SummerDuring the School Year
  • new information about your discipline
  • course resources, websites, articles or studies
  • rubrics
  • assignments/assessment, or best practices found can be used.
  • updated Student Learning Outcomes if needed
  • Attend your class to observe
  • Meet for an activity with the course
  • Have lunch at Brown Dining & discuss course
  • Other valuable PD

This is a time to strengthen the instruction and the connection of the CIHS course to our campus/discipline culture. 

UMN Crookston policy on academic freedom indicates that assessment and grading is up to the individual instructor. It gets a bit dicey with NACEP accreditation, as the standard states the concurrent course  uses similar assessment methods; I think if you use best practices, and your faculty guidance, we can  meet this standard and show why it is better if the course(s) do happen to differ in assessments. If there is not a best practice reason, I’d ask if you could use the same types and scoring of assessments. 

June PD Day: The majority of the day is blocked out to work with instructors. Lunch will be available at noon in the Bede Ballroom. Please remind your instructors that the bookstore is open all day, too.  Every folder has a 20% off coupon to the bookstore for merchandise, good only on workshop day. 

Important: Email all resources & documentation of your session [email protected]. Agenda and a written description of how your session is professional development for your discipline is appreciated. I will work with all the documentation you turn in, for what you’ve worked on with the instructors. 

Thank you so much, you are the strong foundation that anchors our CIHS program! 

NACEP Standards (revised/adoption May 2017) our workshop will address

NACEP StandardWhat it Addresses
Faculty 3 (F3)Concurrent enrollment instructors participate in college/university provided annual discipline-specific professional development and ongoing collegial interaction to further enhance instructors' pedagogy and breadth of knowledge in the discipline.
Curriculum 2 (C2)The college/university ensures the concurrent enrollment courses reflect the learning objectives, and the pedagogical, theoretical and philosophical orientation of the respective college/university discipline.
Assessment 1 (A1)The college/university ensures concurrent enrollment students' proficiency of learning outcomes is measured using comparable grading standards and assessment methods to on campus sections.