MAD HATTER 10

 

P.D. BULLETIN

PROVINCIAL INSTRUCTORS DIPLOMA PROGRAM

 

Many college faculty have learned their teaching skills on the job,
often without having received any formal teaching instruction before-
hand or any in-service training and enrichment of their teaching
abilities. Indeed, the possession of professional teaching credentials
has not been viewed in the past as a necessary qualification for
a faculty appointment at a community college and few post-secondary
institutions recognize such credentials for placement or advancement
‘on the salary scale.

To many, this is the way things should be. But increasingly there
is a need for a program that allows instructors embarking on a teaching
career at the community college level to develop competence in basic
instructional skills and for one which provides professional develop-
ment opportunities for established instructors to "refresh" their
instructional knowledge, skills and attitudes in response to the
changing educational needs of their students.

The Instructors Diploma Program has been designed to address these
needs. The program is co-sponsored by the Ministry of Advanced
Education and Job Training, which supervises the program and issues
the diploma, and the Vancouver Community College/Vancouver Vocational
Institute, which supervises the admission of candidates and administers
the program of courses.

Below are some pages outlining details of the curriculum, formats,
and schedules for the program. Further information is given in an
Information Guide, copies of which are available from me or Gordon
Gilgan who is the college's representative on the program's steering
committee.

If a number of faculty are interested, it will be possible to offer
courses from the program at Douglas. Please would you contact me
at local 4233 if you would be interested in attending any in-house
sessions this spring or summer.

Ted James
Collegewide
P.D. Chairperson