Miami Dade College’s Faculty Professional Development Workshop: Student Voter Engagement
This resource was created by Joshua Young from Miami Dade College as part of the 2022 Ask Every Student Codesigner Cohort.
Fostering Voter Engagement Across All Disciplines
Miami Dade College (MDC) created and offered a Faculty Professional Development Workshop to prepare faculty to help students be “election-ready.” It was a 90-minute workshop, with 30 minutes of post-work, for a total of 2 hours professional development credit.
For more information contact Josh Young with MDC’s Institute for Civic Engagement & Democracy at jyoung@mdc.edu.
Presentation about the Professional Development Workshop by 2022 Codesigner Josh Young from Miami Dade College.
Workshop Proposal
Miami Dade College’s Institute for Civic Engagement & Democracy (iCED) offered this workshop 13 times between mid-August to mid-October 2020. A total of 206 Full Time and Part Time faculty attended the workshop. The foundation of the workshop was to introduce faculty to mdc.edu/vote and MDC’s student election guide and worksheet. The ultimate goal was for every MDC student to be given the information and guidance they need to register and be election ready, and exercise their right and duty to vote. It was a basic workshop appropriate for all faculty from all disciplines – including STEM, business, etc.
Workshop Presentation
Post-Workshop Materials
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Election Ready Lesson Planning Guide
How will you empower students to be election ready? Empowering students to be election ready means helping them understand why it is important to vote, helping them locate the resources to get informed, removing barriers to their access to vote, and helping them make a plan to vote.
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Election Ready Lesson Planning Worksheet
Students will be able to create a strategy for fulfilling their civic responsibility to vote (or if ineligible, helping others vote) by first making the personal connection to why voting is important, then by learning about how to vote, and finally by making a plan to vote in the General Election.
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View the Activity Ideas
These are a variety of activities and assignments that professors could assign to help students become election ready. Suggestion: review this list and select one, or several, activities to include in your course.
Learn more from MDC
Other resources for faculty from Miami Dade College:
Questions?
Contact Josh Young from MDC’s Institute for Civic Engagement & Democracy at jyoung@mdc.edu.
