Institutional Core Competencies Workshop

1. Institutional Core Competencies Workshop Dr. Ian R. Haslam Dean Health Sciences and Athletics

2. Overview • ACCJC Guidelines • League for Innovation in Community Colleges: 21 st C. Learning Outcomes Project • World Futures Society: Learning for Tomorrow • AACU Great Expectations Report: Empowered, Informed, Responsible • Learning outcomes for the Learning Organisation • Executive Summary of institutional core competencies • Delphi Round 1 (from 25 + to 10) • Delphi Round 2 (from 10 to 5) • Ranking top 5 with clicker technology

3. Learning students need for the 21st C?

4. College wide core competencies – the context • World Futures Society • AACU Greater Expectations Report • Organizational learning Student Learning Outcomes Curriculum

5. The Learning Students Need for the Twenty-First Century Empowered • With the intellectual and practical skills that students need are extensive, sophisticated, and expanding with the explosion of new technologies. • As they progress through grades K-12 and the undergraduate years, and at successively more challenging levels, students should learn to: • effectively communicate orally, visually, in writing, and in a second language • understand and employ quantitative and qualitative analysis to solve problems • interpret and evaluate information from a variety of sources • understand and work within complex systems and with diverse groups • demonstrate intellectual agility and the ability to manage change AACU Greater Expectations Report, Educational imperatives, for the 21st C

6. The Learning Students Need for the Twenty-First Century Informed • While intellectual and practical skills are essential, so is a deeper understanding of the world students inherit, as human beings and as contributing citizens. • Both in school and college, students should have sustained opportunities to learn about: • the human imagination, expression, and the products of many cultures • the interrelations within and among global and cross-cultural communities • means of modeling the natural, social, and technical worlds • the values and histories underlying U.S. democracy AACU Greater Expectations Report, Educational imperatives, for the 21st C

7. The Learning Students Need for the Twenty-First Century Responsible • The integrity of a democratic society depends on citizens' sense of social responsibility and ethical judgment. • To develop these qualities, education should foster: • intellectual honesty • responsibility for society's moral health and for social justice • active participation as a citizen of a diverse democracy • discernment of the ethical consequences of decisions and actions • deep understanding of one's self and respect for the complex identities of others, their histories, and their cultures. AACU Greater Expectations Report, Educational imperatives, for the 21st C

8. Learning organisations

9. Future skills and the learning organisation Institutional Learning Outcomes Responsible El Camino College as a learning organization for students faculty and staff Informed Empowered Mental Models Shared Vision Systems Thinking Personal Mastery Teams Five disciplines of the learning organisation

10. Sooooo…. • Institutional learning outcomes/core competencies are as important for ECC employees in the future as they are for the students we teach! • High performance organizations continually work toward refinement of employee mental models, their personal mastery, use teams effectively, work toward a shared vision and develop systems thinking skills

11. Workshop activities - College wide core competencies • Review the executive summary of core competencies from 10 different institutions • Consider the AACU Greater Expectations Report • Don’t forget the ECC institutional learning outcomes • As a result of his/her experiences at El Camino College: • Students are productive citizens. • Students are equipped to meet the challenges of life. • Students are prepared for and are competitive in the workforce. • Students possess critical thinking skills. • Students embrace learning and are committed to lifelong learning. • Students are knowledgeable about local and global events. • Students appreciate and enjoy the arts and humanities. • Students improve the quality of their lives. • Students improve the lives of others.

12. The Delphi Round #1 • Review the examples of core competencies • Individually around each table select ten • Each table average individual responses to reach a consensus on top ten core competencies.

13. Results of Round #1 • Communication • Creative, critical and analytical thinking • Problem solving • Personal responsibility and professional development • Global awareness • Reading • Ethics • Digital technology skills • Personal and interpersonal skills  • Lifelong learning

14. The Delphi Round # 2 • Discuss the new list of ten core competencies • Individually around each table select your preferred five • Table coordinator collect all responses and average them per table to reach a consensus on the top 5.

15. Results of Round #2 • Communication • Critical and creative thinking • Personal responsibility • Ethics • Lifelong learning

16. Ranking the top 5 • Using the clicker technology rank from one to five each of the five or six core competencies… • Critical and creative thinking 1.78 • Communication 2.07 • Personal responsibility 3.10 • Ethics 3.82 • Lifelong learning 4.10