Strengthening Student Success Across the General Education Transfer Curriculum - Strengthening Student Success Conference October 9, 2013

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Strengthening Student Success Across the

General Education Transfer Curriculum

Strengthening Student Success ConferenceOctober 9, 2013

Ken ODonnell, Debra David

CSU Chancellors OfficeJulie Stein, Las Positas College, CSU East Bay


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Agenda

Making General Education More Relevant

Give Students a Compass Overview

Promising Practices

Your Promising Practices

Lessons Learned for Professional Development


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The Essential Learning Outcomes Knowledge of Human Cultures and the Physical and Natural World

Through study in the sciences and mathematics, social sciences, humanities,histories, languages, and the arts

Intellectual and Practical SkillsInquiry and analysis

Critical and creative thinking

Written and oral communication

Quantitative LiteracyInformation Literacy

Teamwork and problem solving

Personal and Social ResponsibilityCivic knowledge and engagementlocal and global

Intercultural knowledge and competence

Ethical reasoning and action

Foundations and skills for lifelong learning

Integrative and Applied LearningSynthesis and advanced accomplishment across general and specialized studies


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It Takes More Than A MajorJanuary 2013Hart Research for9

Critical thinking/analytical reasoning

Ability to analyze/solvecomplex problems

Effective oralcommunication

Effective writtencommunication

Apply knowledge/skillsto real-world settings

Locate, organize, evaluate

info from multiple sourcesInnovation/creativity

Teamwork/collaboration indiverse group settings

Ability to connectchoices and actionsto ethical decisions

64% 27% 9%

67% 22% 11%

71% 20% 9%

72% 19% 9%

78% 16% 6%

80% 12% 8%

80% 12% 8%

81% 13% 6%

82% 11% 7%

More emphasis than they do today Less emphasisThe same emphasis

Majorities of employers want colleges to place more emphasison selected outcomes


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Phase one

2008- 2011

Goal: to infuse High-Impact Practices into

the lower-division general education

curriculum of all students.

Phase two

2011-2014

Goal: to infuse High-Impact Practices into

the lower-division general education

curriculum of all students - regardless of

where they start.


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Cosumnes River

Oxnard

East L.A.

Six pilot sites now underway

Twelve networking partnerships

Statewide learning network

Pierce

CCSF

Hartnell


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Promising Practices

High impact practices

Town hall meetings

ePortfolios

Aligning (signature) assignments and assessments

Thematic General Education pathways


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High-Impact Educational Practices

First-Year Seminars and ExperiencesCommon Intellectual Experiences

Learning Communities

Writing-Intensive Courses

Collaborative Assignments and Projects

Undergraduate Research

Diversity/Global Learning

Service Learning, Community-Based Learning

Internships

Capstone Courses and Projects


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Town Hall Meeting

Chico


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E-Portfolios at San Francisco State


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Themes of the Orientation Message

Welcomes the viewer

Explains the purpose of the page

Explains your philosophy of being a student Highlights your strengths as a student

Raises expectations specifically about the posts on the

student page

Requests specific feedback from the viewer

Source: Cosumnes River & CSU Sacramento guidelines for first-yearseminar e-portfolios
http://www.crc.losrios.edu/


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Signature AssignmentAligned to Outcomes & Assessment

Framed by teams of teachersworking in formal

collaboration

Firmly connected to the official curriculum

Some instructional consistency needed

Materials may be suggested or provided Some concern with psychometric requirements and

reporting


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Diversity Studies

How differencecultural, racial, sexual,biological, linguistic, or geographic

shapes who we are and how we live

together.

Sustainability Studies

Explore the deep connections between thehealth and vitality of the natural

environment and human well-being

Science, Technology, and Values

Explore how science and technology can

shape the human conditionin the past,

present and future.

Ethics, Justice, and Policy Studies

Explore how ethics and justice help inform

policy in areas related to the natural and

human environments.

Thematic paths across multiple GE areas
http://www.csuchico.edu/


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Your Promising GE Practices

Which of these practices are most likely to work on

your campus?

What promising practices are increasing relevance

and deeper learning of GE on your campus?


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Professional Development

Provide a working space for faculty to connect and

collaborate Invite other campuses to join in the conversation

Utilize a variety of well developed online strategies to

connect to materials and to each other


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GE & Student Engagement

Community Teaching Commons

http://teachingcommons.cdl.edu/geengage


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Professional Development

Welcome adjunct's participation in professional

development activities including funded activities Examine and update hiring and promotional

practices to include instructional expertise and

learning pedagogy


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Our Future in California:

Building aCollaborative

Community of Practice

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Strengthening Student Success Across the General Education Transfer Curriculum - Strengthening Student Success Conference October 9, 2013