Welcome to the OTC Employee Development calendar where current employees can browse and register for available training opportunities. Events are added throughout the semester so please check back often.

Plan for the Future: How an Estate Plan Puts you In Control

Virtual Only

  This session focuses on strategies you can use to care for the people and things you love and how to leave a lasting and meaningful legacy.     Glenn Kent works as a financial advisor with Ameriprise. He earned an associate degree while attending community college in Pennsylvania and continued his path in education, obtaining…

Knowing How to Help Others- QPR- In House

Virtual Only

Learn the question, persuade, and refer methods and know how to help others, staff, faculty or students and OTC embarks on a mission to raise mental health awareness and suicide prevention! Join Ed Derr for this virtual training! https://otc.zoom.us/j/94869143213

Positive Impacts of Bridge, Dual Enrollment, Support Programs for Students- DEI

Virtual Only

Positive Impacts of Bridge, Dual Enrollment, and Support Programs for All Students: Foundations for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion   In the face of the pandemic and a decline in college enrollment numbers, it is now more important than ever to build bridges and create support systems for students. This webinar focuses on identifying the needs…

Advising Racially and Ethnically Diverse Students

ICW 108B&C

Title: Advising Racially & Ethnically Diverse Students Location: ICW108BC Date: Thursday, April 21st 2022 Time: Webinar viewing will be from 1pm-2pm. The meeting room will be reserved until 3pm for discussion after webinar viewing. Description: Join us for an Operation EAGLE event! We will gather to view a live NACADA webinar titled: Building a Trauma-Informed…

Event Series Teacher Talk: Faculty Fridays

Teacher Talk: Faculty Fridays

Virtual Only

Most Fridays, 12pm - 1pm: Grab your lunch (or favorite beverage) and connect with your peers in an informal space to share how your semester is going, tales from the classroom, and all things teaching and learning. Open to adjuncts, full-time faculty, staff, and guests. Bring your own topics, or join the conversation for different topics…

Free Webinar: Building Instructional Immediacy in the Online Classroom

Virtual Only

Hosted by NISOD Monday, April 25, 2022 - 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm As colleges rapidly deployed online instruction in the wake of the pandemic, instructors struggled to connect meaningfully with students. Traditional methods of instruction, we learned, are not always transferable to the online classroom. Immediacy, however, is one approach that works well in-person…

Gun Safety Course- by Scott Leven

ICW 108B&C

9am – 10am OTC Springfield Campus, ICW 108BC   The OTC’s One Grant invites you to participate in this gun safety course, led by OTC’s Scott Leven, College Director of Safety and Security. In this course participants will learn about gun storage, safekeeping, proper use, and how to control access in times of mental health…

Teaching Adult Learners

Virtual Only

Virtually, April 28th, 11:30 am  OTC hosts an important adult learner population, but what sets these students apart from others? What can you do to promote adult learner success? What is Andragogy? Learn the answer to these questions and more with Dr. Julie Coltharp!   Let us know you are coming below! Attend virtually at…

Free