Are you responsible for managing support staff in your role? Did you know that as a manager, it is your responsibility to review position description forms (PDF’s) each year during the performance review process? And that best practice is to review the PDF every time you have a vacancy?

The goal of this workshop is to help managers learn more about Humber’s provincially negotiated job classification plan for support staff positions. This participatory session will offer attendees an overview of effectively writing support staff position description forms, important elements of the support staff collective agreement relating to position classification, and the support staff position review process at Humber.

Erin Holl, Director, Support Staff for the College Employer Council will co-facilitate this session and will discuss job evaluation best practices, offer insight into current classification issues within the College system, as well as discuss important arbitration decisions. Participants will leave with a reference guide on how to complete support staff position description forms in accordance with our negotiated job evaluation plan.

Workshop Highlights:

• A review of completing a Position Description Form (PDF) and important aspects of the Support Staff Collective Agreement.
• An update on important arbitration decisions in classification grievances.
• Overview of the PDF review and classification process at Humber.

Time & Location Details:
Date: Tuesday April 1, 2014
Time: 9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
Room: B308

Facilitators:
Erin Holl, Director, Support Staff, College Employer Council
Jennifer Cosway, HR Consultant, HR Services

At 8:30 p.m. on Saturday, March 29, 2014, hundreds of millions of people across the globe will switch off the lights of homes and businesses for one hour. Earth Hour is the largest environmental action in history, bringing our voices together to collectively ‘Use Our Power’ and to make the commitment to take action and take better care of the planet  in the year ahead. Here is what you can do at Humber and at home to reduce your power use: 

• Elect an “Earth Hour Superhero” in your department/area, whose job it is to ensure lights are out and appliances, computers and monitors are off at the end of each working day (especially this Friday!)
• Do not print unless absolutely necessary, and minimize printing and photocopying
• Turn off printers, computers, monitors, microwaves and coffee machines at the power points at the end of the day when unused for long periods (this would reduce energy use by 5 per cent). (Especially before you go home this weekend!)
• Share the message with your colleagues, students, friends, family!
• Have dinner in candlelight this Saturday, March 29! …and as many nights as you can!
• Send us a photo showing us what you did during Earth Hour this year via twitter @SustainHumber and you could win a delicious prize!
• Find out more and learn what else you can do for Earth Hour at: www.earthhour.org 

• We have much of our lighting on sensors. Have the lights gone out on you in a meeting and you have to get up and dance to make them turn back on? That’s us conserving energy!
•  We ‘set back’ our heating, cooling and ventilation equipment at 10 p.m. Monday – Friday and at 6 p.m. on the weekends until 6 a.m. Since there are fewer people around during those times, we don’t need to heat or cool the buildings as much, thus conserving energy.
• You can find out more on our website

Time: 2:30 p.m. to 3:20 p.m.

Learn the power of Twitter and Social Media to engage your students inside and outside of the classroom. In addition to student engagement, explore the networking and professional development aspects of Twitter. This webinar will explain how to use Twitter by giving many examples of what can be done. Discussion regarding basic aspects of Twitter use, including an account set-up, will be encouraged. Join and ‘follow’ the Twitter experience!

Note: A link will be provided to registrants 24 hours before the webinar.

Register online at: www.humber.ca/centreforteachingandlearning

Time: 12 noon - 1 p.m. 

Are you interested in emerging technology for use in your classroom? Be a part of a collaborative community supporting student achievement using technology. Share your experiences and engage with other faculty using flipped learning. Discover how technology can enhance your classroom activities and increase student engagement and learning.

This is an opportunity to connect with others interested in the ever-changing climate of technology from across the college and to learn from others. Please drop in for a coffee and chat. All interested faculty are welcome.

The topic for this session will be the use of visual basic for gaming and quizzes.

Note: It is suggested that you bring a laptop and a copy of a quiz with you, to get the most out of the session.

Register online at:  www.humber.ca/centreforteachingandlearning