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Roz Spitzer, Niki Mantas, Liuba Boyko, Judi Wise from Bellingham Technical College

Five Powerful Principles to Transform Your Class. High Structure. Intentionality and Learning How to Learn. High Challenge. Inquiry and Assessment. Intensity. Roz Spitzer, Niki Mantas, Liuba Boyko, Judi Wise from Bellingham Technical College.

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Roz Spitzer, Niki Mantas, Liuba Boyko, Judi Wise from Bellingham Technical College

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  1. Five Powerful Principles to Transform Your Class High Structure Intentionality and Learning How to Learn High Challenge Inquiry and Assessment Intensity Roz Spitzer, Niki Mantas, Liuba Boyko, Judi Wise from Bellingham Technical College Rendezvous 2010 Yakima, Washington July 20, 2010

  2. The Five Principles and How They are Changing Our Lives • High Structure • High Challenge • Intensity • Intentionality and Learning How to Learn • Inquiry and Assessment to make learning visible Source: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Basic Skills for Complex Lives: Designs for Learning in the Community College (2008)

  3. What’s so powerful? • “The most promising innovations are shaped by an understanding that basic skills are not so basic, that even underprepared learners bring assets to their work. Basic skills must prepare students for complex lives.”

  4. How did we get started? • A synergy of things happened: • The budget cuts!!! • Promises, promises… • **Faculty Inspiration ** • A great grant writer $$$ • We got the FIPSE!!! (Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education)

  5. Original Faculty Inquiry Group (FIG): Roz Spitzer, Niki Mantas, Ruby Butterworth, Liuba Boyko, Judi Wise, Connie Daugherty, Marcia Leister, Paula Girouard

  6. Key Components • Time & Money • Commitment of Faculty • Commitment of Administration • Openness to new ideas • Persistence

  7. JIGSAW ACTIVITY: Creating Powerful Classrooms Number Groups: LEARN YOUR PRINCIPLE! • Read the Carnegie Principle that correlates with the number on your color card. • Discuss strategies from reading and your own experience. • Be prepared to paraphrase the principle and share with others.

  8. JIGSAW ACTIVITY: Creating Powerful Classrooms Color Groups: TEACH YOUR PRINCIPLE • Teach your principle to your color group members. (Limit: 2 minutes each/10 minutes.) • Discuss/take notes on these strategies. Which strategies have you tried? Which would you like to try? • Prepare for whole group report. What’s the best idea that you have discovered today? Prepare to share: Principle(s), Title, Description.

  9. JIGSAW ACTIVITY: Creating Powerful Classrooms Whole Group: REPORT • Each color group reports to whole group one awesome activity that supports one of the five Carnegie Principles.

  10. How are we transforming our classes at BTC?

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