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TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR TRAINING

TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR TRAINING . “Thriving in the Community College & Beyond” By: Julie McLaughlin . June 2013. ICEBREAKER!!. Introductions. WHY THIS CLASS?.

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TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR TRAINING

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  1. TIDEWATER COMMUNITY COLLEGE INSTRUCTOR TRAINING “Thriving in the Community College & Beyond” By: Julie McLaughlin June 2013

  2. ICEBREAKER!! • Introductions

  3. WHY THIS CLASS? Research strongly indicates that new students who participate in student success courses (such as the one that’s using this text) are more likely to stay in college, complete their degrees, and achieve higher grades. These positive effects have been found for: Cuseo, Joe; Thompson, Aaron;, McLaughlin, Julie; Moono, Steady. Thriving in the Community College and Beyond. Kendall Hunt, 2011, 2013.

  4. WHY THIS CLASS? • All types of students (underprepared and well prepared, minority and majority, residential and commuter, male and female); • students at all types of colleges (two- and four-year, public and private); • students attending colleges of different sizes (small, midsized, and large); and • students attending colleges in different locations (urban, suburban and rural). Cuseo, Joe; Thompson, Aaron;, McLaughlin, Julie; Moono, Steady. Thriving in the Community College and Beyond. Kendall Hunt, 2011, 2013.

  5. CINCINNATI STATE RETENTION DATA Overall Rating - Excellent/Very Good

  6. CINCINNATI STATE DATA

  7. CINCINNATI STATE DATA

  8. CINCINNATI STATE DATA

  9. WHO ARE WE TEACHING? • Veterans • Displaced workers • Single parents • First generation • Learning disabilities • Special populations

  10. OUR STUDENTS CHARACTERISTICS OF MILLENIALS • Helicopter parents • Most racially and ethnically diverse generation • Despise being separated from contact with friends • Have always been told they are “special” • Connected 24/7

  11. OUR STUDENTS CHARACTERISTICS OF MILLENIALS • They watch television everywhere but on a television • Encyclopedias? Huh? • 1 in 5 have a parent who is an immigrant

  12. OUR STUDENTS TEACHING MILLENIALS • Use Technology • Need constant feedback and reinforcement • Explain exact procedure • Use humor • Seek to be challenged • Rely on collaboration with peers • Learning needs to be hands-on, interactive, collaborative and fun

  13. WHY ACTIVE LEARNING? • Use as equalizer in class • Diverse student population • Reach all students and bring them to the same level • High level and lower functioning students work together for success

  14. ACTIVE INVOLVEMENT • Research indicates that active involvement is the most fundamental and most powerful principle of human learning and college success (Astin1993; Kuh 2000). • Active involvement could be considered the first base of college success because if it is not touched or covered you cannot advance to another base. Adapted from: Cuseo, Joe; Thompson, Aaron;, McLaughlin, Julie; Moono, Steady. Thriving in the Community College and Beyond. Kendall Hunt, 2011, 2013.

  15. EDUCATION • Not defining knowledge but USING knowledge • Use what they learn and retain it Glasser, M.D., William, Choice Theory, New York. Harper Collins, 1998.

  16. ACTIVE LEARNING ACCORDING TO CHICKERING • Learning is not a spectator sport! • Talk • Write • Relate to past experiences • Apply to daily lives • Must make what they learn part of themselves • Adapted from: Chickering, Arthur, and Zelda Gamson. Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education. AAHE/March, 1987.

  17. GETTING STARTED WITH YOUR FYE COURSE • Know your students. • Let your students know your expectations. • Get to know your students and allow them to get to know you. • Utilize the course textbook. • Start each class out with some type of tradition. • Keep the students engaged! • Get and give feedback as much as possible. • HAVE FUN!

  18. UTILIZING THE TEXTBOOK • Thought starters • Think about its/Journal entries • Snapshot summary boxes • Remember cues • Quotes

  19. UTILIZING THE TEXTBOOK • Student perspectives • Author’s experience • End of chapter exercises • End of chapter reflections

  20. INSTRUCTOR’S MANUAL • Getting started with your FYE course • Icebreakers • Teaching the introduction • Ending the course • Appendix

  21. FIRST CLASS SESSIONS • Building class community and course enthusiasm • Know their instructor • Know the purpose and value of the course • Know their classmates • Serve to lay the foundational cornerstones for a successful learning experience in any course. From: Instructor’s Manual for Thriving in College & Beyond: Research–Based Strategies for Academic Success and Personal Development.

  22. FIRST DAY • Icebreaker • Review syllabus • 1st day reflection • Expectations

  23. IDEAS TO USE THROUGHOUT THE TERM • Minute Papers • You Tube Videos • First Five Minutes • Music • Quote of the Day

  24. INTRODUCTION • Why this Class and Why College • Snapshot Summary 1.1 (p. xxiii) Student Diversity in America’s Community Colleges • Snapshot Summary 1.2 (pgs. xxv-xxvi) Why College Is Worth It • Activity: Analyze and Prioritize the Benefits of College

  25. INTRODUCTION • Success stories • Benefits of collaboration

  26. CHAPTER 1 • Syllabi – in class • Appropriate/Inappropriate Emails • Syllabus Worksheet

  27. ACTIVE LEARNING & CREATIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR CAMPUS RESOURCES AND BEING A SUCCESSFUL STUDENT • I like but I don’t like…. • Ideal student • Hiring employees • 20 things I can do this term

  28. CHAPTER 2 • A Checklist of Success – Promoting Principles and Practices • Role Play • College Catalog • Campus Resources • Academic Advising Worksheet

  29. ACTIVE LEARNING & CREATIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR GOAL SETTING, MOTIVATION, AND CHARACTER • http://youtu.be/y9ozDgtWTLQ(famous failures) • http://youtu.be/Y6hz_s2XIAU(famous failures) • Who are You? • The Dash Poem (eulogy) http://www.thedashmovie.com/ • 3 life events

  30. CHAPTER 3 ACTIVITIES • SMART goals • Setbacks into comebacks • Locus of control / personal responsibility • Motivation/long-range goals worksheet ? • Autobiography

  31. CHAPTER 3 ACTIVITIEScontinued • Self-Defeating Behavior • Strengths/Weaknesses • Personal Responsibility Worksheet • Walk a Mile in My Shoes Worksheet • Goal Collage

  32. ACTIVE LEARNING & CREATIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR TIME MANAGEMENT • Chaos toss • “Acceptable” reasons to miss class • Time management worksheet

  33. CHAPTER 4 • Time Wasters • Planners/Calendars • Missing Class

  34. DEEP LEARNING AND HIGH-LEVEL THINKING • In a national survey of 40,000 college professors who taught freshman through senior-level courses in various fields, 97% of them reported that the most important goal of a college education is to develop students’ ability to think critically (Milton, 1982). • Similarly, college professors who teach introductory courses to freshmen and sophomores indicate that the primary educational purpose of their courses is to develop students’ critical thinking skills (Stark et al., 1990). From: Thriving in the Community College & Beyond Strategies for Academic Success and Personal Development

  35. ACTIVE LEARNING & CREATIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR CRITICAL AND CREATIVE THINKING • What song? • Object (paperclip, dime) • Puzzles • Campus issues (how to resolve) • Objectivity exam (also test taking) • One red paper cliphttp://www.Youtube.Com/watch?V=be8b02edzvw

  36. CHAPTER 5 • TV Advertising • Ordinary Objectives Paper

  37. MY POWER LEARNING ASSESSMENT • Students complete a learning styles test and receive a report detailing how they should take part in class participation, complete homework assignments, and prepare for class and exams.

  38. LEARNING STYLES ACTIVITIES • My Power Learning (www.unlockyourlearning.com) • My Power Learning Worksheet • Write name with non-dominant hand

  39. CHAPTER 6 • SQ3R • Note Taking • Appointment with tutoring center, writing center, etc.

  40. CHAPTER 7 • Objectivity Exam • Following Directions • Creating Retrieval Cues • Compute GPA • Can You Follow Directions?

  41. ACTIVE LEARNING & CREATIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR DIVERSITY • Diversity project • Oreo cookie exercise • Diversity bingo • Exploring stereotypes • Role play • Status game • Circles of my multicultural self

  42. ROLE PLAY Role Play“Thug” The Professional Instructor

  43. CHAPTER 8 • Definition of diversity • World village • Choose your neighbor • Artifact • Group similarities

  44. MANAGING MONEY • Wants vs. needs • Ways to save money • Having fun without spending (much) money • Finance worksheet

  45. CHAPTER 9 ACTIVITIES • Incidentals • Meet with financial aid • Monitoring money • What’s on your _____________?

  46. ACTIVE LEARNING & CREATIVE TEACHING STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH AND WELLNESS • Health paper or grid • STD Handshake • Live to be 100 • Fast Food Frenzy

  47. CHAPTER 11 ACTIVITIES • Wellness wheel (and handout) • Improving physical health • Wellness self-assessment • Self improvement • Sleep and meal record

  48. UNPLANNED PREGNANCY MODULES ADD LINK

  49. CHAPTER 12 ACTIVITIES • Strengths worksheet • Values • Accomplishment exercise

  50. CHAPTER 12 • Ideal job • Career research • Career exploration worksheet

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