College Teachers Do. Colleagues from all campuses
and a broad representation of the disciplines met to
explore the findings of Professor Bain and to discuss the applicability of those findings to their own
teaching.
mentoring and goes the extra mile to meet students’
learning needs. She offers an optional face-to-face
orientation to her courses (online or classroom) to
help individual or small groups with blackboard,
course set-up, instructor expectations, and to review sample assignments. Because her online students cannot always travel to the Northeast Campus, Chrystie meets her students on another TCC
campus, at Barnes and Noble bookstores, or their
workplace to help them with course orientation,
tutoring, and assignments.
Amanda served, for over a decade, as the
chair of the Northeast Campus Master Teacher
Workshop ad hoc faculty group. She has led discussions in the NEC reading group and presented
many times over both pedagogical and technological topics at Convocation, CTLC, Renew the Magic,
and Stayonference. She also served the TCC Faculty
Association as a division representative, treasurer,
secretary, and three-time president. In addition,
Amanda helped established the Academy for
Teaching Excellence to meet the needs of new faculty, and to date, she is the only continuously serving
member. If that weren’t enough, she has judged at
the National /International convention and taken
students, one of whom is now a colleague on the
Metro Campus, to a Dallas convention. She even
taught knitting through NEC’s Student Activities.
To further her own commitment to student
learning, Chrystie attends numerous conferences
each year to keep current on global, national, and
local mental health issues. Recently, she completed
training in the international program Mental Health
First Aide. One of her particular passions is suicide
prevention/intervention. She attends the ODMHSAS conference on Suicide Prevention each summer, and she is a certified suicide intervention
trainer through the national QPR (Question Persuade, Refer) program. For the past six years,
Chrystie has conducted QPR suicide intervention
trainings for her students and their family, friends,
and coworkers. She trains approximately 100 individuals per year. Participants who complete the
training gain certification as QPR Gatekeepers.
Amanda, clearly two awards over a span of
thirty-seven years can never adequately express the
appreciation you deserve for your commitment to
TCC’s students and faculty. From all of the faculty
and students whose lives you have enriched, thank
you for thirty-seven years of exceptional service.
In addition to all of her above accomplishments, Chrystie has twelve years of experience as a
practicing school psychologist and still maintains
her Oklahoma certification. She is a member of the
Society for Teaching of Psychology and the American Psychological Association, and she recently
presented on Carol Dweck’s Mindset at the CELTsponsored Sand