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Experience I have served in a variety of roles in my work history. My experience at St. Joseph Medical Center included mentoring students, supervising other staff therapists, interacting and communicating with others in the healthcare team, and instructing patients in a wide variety of treatment modalities. I was able to successfully transfer and expand those skills into the community college setting. As Director of Clinical Education for the Respiratory Care program, I coordinated scheduling of students in numerous clinical sites, I taught demanding courses such as cardiopulmonary anatomy and physiology and respiratory pharmacology. I was responsible for maintaining a well-stock laboratory environment and, most importantly, maintaining harmony among various clinical and college personnel. In this capacity, I developed course curricula and assisted in the redesign of the entire program. This redesign required that I ensure our program met standards the National Board for Respiratory Care and the Council for Accreditation of Respiratory Care (CoARC), as well as suit the needs of our regional clinical affiliates. Our program was proud of our 99.95% national exam pass rate. As Director of the Teaching and Learning Center, I have expanded my skill set to include developing online courses, incorporating instructional technology into the face-to-face classroom and as a Web-enhancement to course materials, and educating faculty and staff in a more formal atmosphere. I manage the Media Services staff consisting of both full-time employees and work-study students. My administrative duties include serving on several crucial college committees, such as the Teaching and Learning with Technology Roundtable (TLTR) and Academic Team. One of my first responsibilities as director of the TLC was to develop a way to help faculty learn WebCT, our chosen course management system. The training has evolved into a three stage program. Each module (WebCT 101, WebCT 201, WebCT 301) models the type of course it is designed to teach, for example WebCT 201 is taught as a hybrid course while WebCT 301 is taught completely online. Each segment helps the designer build in course materials that are appropriate for the course modality. In 2005, Reading Area Community College secured grant funding to develop six online courses for use in the Nanoscience program. In addition to being part fot he team that tagged which six courses would be developed, I was charged with designing and developing the mechanism by which the subject matter experts (SME's) would not only design the courses, but would also teach the courses online after they were developed. I developed a plan by which the SME's meet weekly for 10 weeks to learn the essentials of instrcutional design, WebCT functionality, online teaching and course management fundamentals. I also developed the Characteristics of Excellence in Online Courses at Reading Area Community College to maintain quality consistancy within the courses. As part of the Datatel CORE team, I was part of several implementation teams (CORE, Curriculum Management, Records & Registration, Degree Audit, Rules, and Communication Management). I headed the Degree Audit team and took the lead role in the Curriculum Mamagement team insuring that critical deadlines were met. I was also intregal in implementing the campus's room scheduling software, AstraScheduler. I continue to perform training in various areas of both these software packages. In addition to my duties as college administrator, instructional designer, faculty developer, and WebCT administrator, I also teach online sections of our orientation course, entitled, College Success Strategies. This freshman orientation course explores subjects such as time management, note & test-taking skills, learning styles, stress management, as well as policiesand procedures specific to Reading Area Community College.
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