The Professional Development Center

What You Need To Know To Help Them   Who Should Attend:   This presentation will be helpful to individuals who are caregivers or who want to be proactive in the event they become a caregiver of an older adult. This is a one-hour presentation. Caregiver resources along with a copy of A . . .

• Location: Benson Center 407
• Open to: Faculty, Family of Faculty/Staff, Retirees, Staff

Some things in life truly are free and very valuable!!  Come join us and our partners, Walgreens and AARP, for free health screenings, including: total cholesterol levels blood pressure bone density glucose levels waist circumference body mass . . .

• Location: Davis Field, Upper Level
• Open to: Everyone

This segment of the series will focus on the following topics: James Ralph Scales: Growth, Arts and Music, Integration, An unpopular war. International study, curriculum reform. Med School tension. Thomas K. Hearn, campus renovation. Athletic development, WFU and the Medical School, WFU and the . . .

• Location: Benson Center 409
• Open to: Everyone

Some things in life truly are free and very valuable!!  Come join us and our partners, Walgreens and AARP, for free health screenings, including: total cholesterol levels blood pressure bone density glucose levels waist circumference body mass . . .

• Location: Davis Field, Upper Level
• Open to: Everyone

Workshops in this series will focus on the most commonly used tools such as Announcements, Resources, Assignments and course configuration. Please bring your laptop.

• Location: ZSR Library 204
• Open to: Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff

Although no universal "best practices" teaching system exists, there is a system that is best for you: a system that most effectively helps your students achieve the outcomes you desire. This past July, five professors from the Reynolda campus sponsored by the TLC went to "Boot Camp . . .

• Location: Benson Center 401 C
• Open to: Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff

The Professional Development Center (PDC) is a resource for over 50 departments and has expanded its services to include assistance with workshops, conferences, and other events that often require time consuming and taxing registration processes.  Bring your lunch and join us . . .

• Location: Reynolda Hall 101
• Open to: Alumni, Community, Faculty, Family of Faculty/Staff, Graduate Students, Retirees, Staff

In the past few years a number of new technologies and tools have emerged that have the potential to enhance and transform the way one can teach. This regular, informal discussion group features a demonstration of technology being used in WFU classes, as well as time for discussion of applications . . .

• Location: ZSR Library room 330
• Open to: Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff

We all imagine the holidays to be like a Norman Rockwell painting with families and friends gathering, exchanging gifts and the table filled with perfectly prepared foods.  Life’s not a Normal Rockwell painting. It’s overcrowded social obligations, unrealized expectations, and . . .

• Location: Benson Center 410
• Open to: Everyone

This seminar presents the basics of mutual fund investing and touches on the strategies and questions that many customers need to consider for their company retirement accounts (401K/403B) or their individual IRAs as well as general investing.  It defines mutual funds, illustrates their growth . . .

• Location: To be determined
• Open to: Alumni, Community, Faculty, Family of Faculty/Staff, Graduate Students, Retirees, Staff

Leading a classroom discussion is an integral part of teaching, but often our efforts are met with students' blank stares, one-word responses, or awkward shifting in their seats. In this workshop we will discuss some common faculty concerns about leading a classroom discussion and introduce some . . .

• Location: ZSR Library 204
• Open to: Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff

Identity-racial, sexual, gendered, ethnic-matters in our personal lives, but it also shapes our professional lives in important ways. It often influences, consciously and unconsciously, how we present ourselves in the classroom and raises important questions for our consideration. For example, . . .

• Location: ZSR Library 204
• Open to: Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff

Have you ever wondered how to help students better as they struggle with the need to choose and/or change a major? Have you ever wondered if lower division and major advisers should know more about the developmental needs of their students beyond the curriculum? Would you like a chance for some . . .

• Location: ZSR Library 204
• Open to: Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff

Everyone knows that Wake Forest has an honor code and most know that it has a judicial system. But how that system works is perhaps less well known. This session will present some basic information on the Wake Forest judicial system. The panelists--all members of the Honor and Ethics Council or the . . .

• Location: ZSR Library 204
• Open to: Faculty, Graduate Students, Staff