Professional Development Activities
Professional Development – Promoting development by providing teachers and staff with a wide variety of training and opportunities including both credited courses and non-credited activities.
Overview
Pedagogical Days
Ped Day Fall 2024: Friday October 11 Ped days Winter 2025: Jan 13 & 14
Dawson College hosts Ped Days for faculty and staff, providing the opportunity for knowledge exchange on teaching expertise, and to learn from external workshop facilitators. The events feature a keynote address, and a rich variety of workshops, presentations and panel discussions built around teachers’ interests and suggestions.
Funding for Faculty
Dawson Faculty may apply for funds in order to defray the cost of the professional development and training needs. Depending on the nature of the training initiative, there are different funding sources for Faculty Professional Development.
Faculty Group Training
This funding initiative is designed to cover or defray the cost of group professional development activities. Expenses that are eligible for this fund include internal or external speaker honoraria, and travel expenses. Applications are reviewed twice a year by a committee that includes the appropriate sector dean. Interested faculty should complete and submit an application on or before the deadlines.
Apply through the following link (Sharepoint login required):
Faculty Group Training Application
Application Deadlines: Dec 18, 2024 and May 21, 2025
Work Placement in Industry
The work placements in industry initiative enables teachers to upgrade their technical skills in a professional setting related to their area(s) of specialty. Work placements may last up to twenty (20) days, during which period the College will cover the cost of a substitute teacher (at approx. 0.1FTE). Applications are reviewed twice a year by a committee that includes the appropriate sector dean. Interested faculty should complete and submit an application on or before the deadlines.
Apply through the following link (Sharepoint login required):
Work Placement in Industry Application
Application Deadlines: Dec 18, 2024 and May 21, 2025
Professional Development Fund for Faculty
The Professional Development Fund for faculty is managed by a parity committee composed of teacher members and representatives of the college. The committee grants funds to individual teachers for their PD and to departments which organize workshops or training sessions.
Elizabeth Leone, Secretary of Dawson Teachers Union, handles all documents and inquiries – Room 8A.11, email: PDFsecretary@dawsoncollege.qc.ca
Permanent and non-permanent teachers with a full load, and part-time teachers may apply for funds. Permanent and non-permanent teachers with a full load are eligible for $600/year. Part-time and hourly-paid teachers’ allocation of funding will be pro-rated to their annual workload.
Please click here for the Faculty Professional Development Policies and Procedures
Please click here for the Faculty Professional Development Form
Credit Courses (PERFORMA)
PERFORMA (Perfectionnement et Formation des Maîtres au Collégial) is a department of the Faculty of Education at the University of Sherbrooke. It offers undergraduate and graduate level certificates, diplomas and degrees in college-level teaching for CEGEP teachers and professionals. PERFORMA programs include both English and French streams, and non-credit pedagogical workshops.
Click for information on credited courses in both English and French from the Faculty of Education at the University of Sherbrooke.
