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CONTEXTUALIZATION FOR COMPLETION

CONTEXTUALIZATION FOR COMPLETION. Presented by: Deborah Bird, Director Design Tech Pathway, Pasadena Community College Dr. Laurie Scolari California Community College Linked Learning Initiative Director Career Ladders Project. Goals for Today’s Session.

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CONTEXTUALIZATION FOR COMPLETION

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  1. CONTEXTUALIZATION FOR COMPLETION Presented by: Deborah Bird, Director Design Tech Pathway, Pasadena Community College Dr. Laurie Scolari California Community College Linked Learning Initiative Director Career Ladders Project

  2. 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

  3. 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

  4. 5,000 Incoming Students – 1600 graduate / transfer 60% test into Developmental math and English First Year Experience Pathway – 1200 in Fall 2013 College Readiness Guaranteed Blocked Classes Student Support Cohort + Learning Communities Context for Contextualization

  5. Overview of CTL atPasadena City College + 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 STRATEGIES: Design Technology + Media Hybrid CTE/Academic Pathways

  6. Design Technology Pathway Model

  7. community of practice

  8. 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

  9. 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

  10. design tech pathway ENGLISH 100 MATH 402 COLLEGE 1 DESIGN TECH 100 FALL ‘12 ENGLISH 1A MATH 125 SPEECH 10 DESIGN TECH 101 SPRING ‘13 College Readiness Certificate ANTHRO 10 MATH 135 SUMMER ‘13 ENGLISH 1B MATH BUSINESS DESIGN MAJOR FALL ‘13

  11. media pathway ENGLISH PC MATH PC COLLEGE 1 MEDIA100 FALL ‘13 ENGLISH MATH PC ELECTIVE MEDIA101 SPRING ‘14 College Readiness Certificate FALL ‘13 GAMING ANIMATION IMAGE SOUND

  12. Contextualization Constraints and Opportunities: community support time content

  13. 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

  14. Tactics 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 Tactics for Faculty Buy-In

  15. How can we utilize promising practices as a key lever for moving the institutional agenda forward to improve student success? 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

  16. FOR MORE INFORMATION Deborah Bird dabird@pasadena.edu 626 585 7901 Laurie Scolari Email: lscolari@careerladdersproject.org Twitter: @lauriescolari www.CareerLaddersProject.org www.ConnectEd.org www.Irvine.org www.Linkedlearning.org

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