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3CSN
Focus on three key
Momentum Points to achieve
equity-minded milestone completions
First-year success & persistenceEffective Dev Ed sequencesClear & accessible sequences leading tocertificates, degrees, or transfer
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Todays Focus
Momentum Point #1:
First-year success and persistence
with a particular focus on getting the right
start to college
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Getting off to a strong start at college
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College systems can help students get
a strong start.
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I can help my college make changes toimprove strong start opportunities for
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Outcomes for the Day
1. Explore connections between studentempowerment and a strong start to college
2. Design a strong start college process orprocedure
3. Revise a course syllabus4. Create a process or action plan to continue thiswork on your own campus
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Listening to Students
What do you bring to the table?
Student Voices
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Reflection on
Student Voices
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Education is not an affair of telling
and being told, but an active andconstructive process.
-John Dewey
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Constructivist Theory
A philosophy that views learning as an active process inwhich learners construct their own understanding
and knowledge of the world through action and
reflection.Three tenets:
Knowledge is socially constructed. Learning is an active process. Knowledge is constructed from experience.
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Definition of Self Efficacy
Albert Bandura defines self-efficacy as
the belief in ones capabilities to organize
and execute the courses of action
required to manage prospective
situations.
(Bandura, A. (1995). Self-Efficacy in Changing Societies. Cambridge University
Press, page 2).
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HOW DO WE PARTNER WITHSTUDENTS TO EMPOWER THEM TO
SUCCEED
IN THEIR FIRST YEAR AND
PERSIST
TO THEIR SECOND YEAR?
Definition of a Strong Start
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3 Areas for a Strong Start
Front DoorStudent entry to college
Orientation Holistic student preparation
Success Support Holistic support ofenrolled students
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FUTURE STUDENTS
Valencias Front Door
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Trade Techs Orientation
Bridges to Success
Mission is to
1. Create a college-going culture among youth & their parents,historically underserved and unrepresented populations,
disengaged you, and under/unemployed youth & adults
2. Increase access to higher education3.
Increase faculty and staff awareness of the community served
4. Empower students to be lifelong learnershttp://college.lattc.edu/bridges
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Cerritos Habits of Mind
iFALCON
integrates academic success skills in four areas of campus life:
1. web-based and traditional student engagement, includingcounseling and orientations
2. faculty and staff professional development3. developmental education4. campus outreach
http://cms.cerritos.edu/ifalcon/
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What is your college doing now?How might you expand, sustain, andmeasure the success of these
student empowerment processes or
programs?
How do we empowerourselves toempower our students?
Achieving Student Empowerment
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Activity
Which ONEof these
would youlike to workon today?
Please move to thearea as directed.
Front Door Entry Process Orientation Institution-wide Success Support
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Designing for
your college
Lisa Brewster
3CSN Coordinator
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Principles of Good Design
1. Identify outcomes and results2. Determine acceptable evidence3. Plan strategies and activities to achieve
outcomes/results
Backward Design Process
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Poster Sessionand
Reporting Out
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Taking It Back to CampusAction Research
Craft vision for redesign from students POV Make the case for the need to redesign Schedule the conversation Collect existing data Leverage use of experimental practices/procedures Choose well-defined data collection points to collectdata and make findings public
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DONNA COOPER
3CSN CO ORDINATOR
LISTENING TO STUDENT VOICES
Empowering Students throughSyllabus Redesign
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Reflection on
Student Voices
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Reflection
What is the purpose of asyllabus?
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Syllabus Basics
Title 5 RequirementsInstitutional RequirementsMinimal Information
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EXAMPLE
Example with Notes
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Title 5 73880: Syllabus Requirements
The institution shall have on file and make available for inspection a complete syllabus for each course
or other educational service. After July 1, 1993, the course syllabus shall include the following:
(a) A short, descriptive title of the educational service;
(b) A statement of educational objectives;
(c) If the educational service is represented to lead to employment in any occupation or described in anyjob title, a complete list of occupations and job titles to which the educational service is represented to
lead;
(d) Length of the educational service;
(e) Sequence and frequency of lessons or class sessions;
(f) Complete citations of textbooks and other required written materials;
(g) Sequential and detailed outline of subject matter to be addressed or a list of skills to be learned andhow those skills are to be measured;
(h) Instructional mode or methods.
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Activity
How do the terms
Student empowerment Student friendly Student (or learner) centered Culturally or socially responsive Just-in-time pedagogy
connect to a course syllabus?
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Effective & Exemplary Rubric
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MINIMAL
V.
EXEMPLARY
SYLLABI
Sample Syllabi
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Syllabus Analysis
Apply the rubric to your own syllabus
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3CSN FOLLOW UP ANDSUSTAINABILITY SUPPORT
Syllabi and Course Design Coaching Program and Process Redesign
Consulting
Group Facilitations Learning Networks
Next StepsCourtney Hunter, 3CSN Coordinator
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College systems can help students get
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I can help my college make changes toimprove strong start opportunities for
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When the Music changes,
so does the dance-African Proverb