CONTEXTUALIZATION FOR COMPLETION Presented by:
Deborah Bird, DirectorDesign Tech Pathway, Pasadena Community College
Dr. Laurie ScolariCalifornia Community College Linked Learning Initiative DirectorCareer Ladders Project
GOALS FOR TODAY’S SESSION+ To create a space for a peer-sharing discussion on:
• Contextualization strategies at your sites • What are the “right” levels of contextualization?
+ To share our experience implementing contextualization strategies - early wins and challenges
+ To discuss strategies for faculty buy-in
+ To discuss how to bring promising practices to scale
PEER-to-PEER ICEBREAKER
+ What contextualization strategies are you currently implementing at your site?- Rationale, Transformation, Multiple scales (2) 5 minutes
+ Which aspects of the student experience are you contextualizing? In addition to academic content, what other elements of the college’s interaction with the student could and should be contextualized? (2x2) 5 minutes + How are you identifying the appropriate levels of specificity for contextualized curricula? (2x2x2) 5 minutes
+ Share out 5 minutes
Context for Contextualization
5,000 Incoming Students – 1600 graduate / transfer60% test into Developmental math and English
First Year Experience Pathway – 1200 in Fall 2013College Readiness
Guaranteed Blocked ClassesStudent Support
Cohort + Learning Communities
OVERVIEW OF CTL ATPASADENA CITY COLLEGE
STRATEGIES:
Design Technology + Media Hybrid
CTE/Academic Pathways
+ Transformational Concept - Continuum- Student Centered Whole Experience /
Whole Person- Stronger Transferable Skills for life long
learning- Academic and Career Tech integrated- Greater Certificate, Degree, Transfer
Completion
+ Developmental Process - Dynamic- Accelerating Technological Change- Design Thinking to solve multiple problems- Faculty Driven – flexible, collaborative
approaches- Simultaneous with Pathway Development
Design Technology Pathway Model
community of practice
CONTEXTUALIZATION AT PASADENA CITY COLLEGE
+ The ‘right’ level of contextualization?– Depends on process + evolution – Site Specific– Individual Assignments– Regular modular integration– Fully immersive student experience
• Problem Based Learning• Internships / Externships• Community based learning
+ How to organize contextualized coursework?– Depends on the goals and pathways – Site Specific– Across Meta Majors / Industry Groups - AME– Skills – Reading, Writing, Math– Individual Course Relationships
• English/History - interdependent• Philosophy/Computer Hacking - disruptive• Anthropology/Intermediate Algebra - opportunistic
pre-contextualization:fragmentation, dispersed, modularized
thematic – conceptual‘hey, isn’t that what Ms K was talking about?’
echoing, eg humanism, sustainability
content – knowledge base‘it’s the greatest idea ever, that all our courses are integrated’
anchoring, abstraction, application
process – transferable skills‘why do you spend so much time at school?’
seamless continuum – school to career to life
design tech pathway
DESIGN TECH 100ENGLISH 100 MATH 402 COLLEGE 1
DESIGN TECH 101ENGLISH 1A MATH 125 SPEECH 10
MATH 135 ANTHRO 10
FALL ‘12
SPRING ‘13
SUMMER ‘13
MATHENGLISH 1B DESIGN MAJORBUSINESSFALL ‘13
College Readiness Certificate
media pathway
MEDIA100ENGLISH PC MATH PC COLLEGE 1
MEDIA101ENGLISH MATH PC ELECTIVE
FALL ‘13
SPRING ‘14
ANIMATIONGAMING SOUNDIMAGE
FALL ‘13
College Readiness Certificate
content
community
time support
Contextualization Constraints and Opportunities:
TACTICS FOR FACULTY BUY-IN
+ Small Group Discussion 10 min• How can we demonstrate the
benefits of contextualization to faculty?
• How can we identify and cultivate faculty champions to deepen and extend the work across our colleges?
+ Report out and large group discussion 10 minutes
Tactics for Faculty Buy-InTACTICS FOR FACULTY BUY-IN+ Demonstrate Success
– Student Presentations, Video, Focus Groups, Student Panels– Faculty Presentations, Professional Development
+ Create Collaborative Environments– Edtech – Low Risk Professional Development– Constant Contact – Facebook, Classroom Visits, Adjacencies, Retreats– Salon – Anthropology/Math, appeal to intellectual interests– Student Clubs - Social Events around shared interests - Astronomy
TAKING PROMISING PRACTICES TO SCALE
- STUDENT VOICE - VIDEO- GO AROUND THE OBSTACLE AND GET TO THE STUDENT
- USE OF DATA • Shock them with data• Create a sense of urgency• Find your champions• Pilot new ideas• Present data (over and over again).
- SOCIAL JUSTICE/ EQUITY AGENDA
How can we utilize promising practices as a key lever for moving the institutional agenda forward to improve student success?
FOR MORE INFORMATION
Deborah [email protected] 585 7901
Laurie ScolariEmail: [email protected]: @lauriescolari
www.CareerLaddersProject.orgwww.ConnectEd.orgwww.Irvine.org www.Linkedlearning.org