Keys to a successful I-BEST

1. Keys to a successful I-BEST • Introduction & Overview • The Team • Prepare for Class • Prepare across campus • Who are your students • Teach and Learn • Review and Reflect

2. Introduction and Overview • Where I work • My Story • Courtroom to Teaching to Co Teaching and • I-BEST • HCC, I-BEST and…Beyond • Why • Activity What is in a NAME Joy Smucker

3. The Team • “Married” 4 Times (Partnership”) • “At some point in the quarter…” • Choose your Team “A Marriage” • Arranged or Choice? • Pre Marital Counseling Activity 2s or 3s ** Memories of how you learned best ** Memories of your best teachers

4. The Team • Another Marriage • Group: Discussions to Have Decisions to Make with your co teacher • Stories to Tell • Activity: In 2s or 3s Listen/Write Take Turns Thinking about teaching with another **What I expect from my co teacher? **What my co teacher can expect from me?

5. Tu Tarea • Outcomes for your content area • Outcomes for “OUR” content area • One or two assignments or activities

6. Preparation Preparation • All about respect, sharing and working together • Getting Started: Outcomes, Syllabus… • Choose textbook(s) and other materials • Integrate Outcomes for the class • Create “the syllabus” (Story about perceptions…) • What else??? • Activity: Your preparation together ** Brainstorm tasks to do ** Brainstorm strengths/weaknesses/likes/dislikes

7. We hear from Students and Teachers • South Puget Sound Community College Discussion • Highline CC • This will never work…how do we make it work??

8. Preparation Preparation • Visualize • Activities and Assignments • Court Visit Assignment • Group Assignment • Stories to Tell • Guest Speakers…reflection • Guest Speakers…design reflection and questions • Guest Speakers…students “choose”, arrange, meet, prep, follow through

9. Preparation Across Campus • I-BEST Council • Early agendasEarly agendas • Stakeholders • Who is “touched” by I-BEST • Administration • Student Services: Registration, Financial Aid, Advising • Instruction: Departments • Marketing: Website, Information Sessions, Brochures • Community • Activity: Who is at YOUR table? Who needs to be?

10. Lunch Activities • HCC I-BEST website and videos • Other Colleges • I-Best for I-DEV • Justice for All • WA State Learning Communities Consortium

11. Who are your Students • Culturally Responsive We who believe in Access to Education cannot rest • Looking at Privilege • Strengths and Differences Working Together • Know Who you are What is most important @ who you are • 4 R’s • Relationships, Relevant, Rigor, Results • TANS • Students can: Think, Act, Navigate, Safe

12. Finally: Teach and Learn • A Model • Diagram • Handy Website • Key Components • Show respect to each other and what you teach • Communication Communication Communcation • Be prepared to be surprised; flexibility is KEY • Refer to each other • Model learning from each other • Active participant in all even when not “in charge” • Common grading standards • Communication plan outside of class

13. Reflect and Review • Meet within a few weeks of the end of class to: • Review • Textbook(s) and materials • Outcomes • Activities and Assessment • Syllabus • What did work? Take Note • What did not work? Improve or Forget • Reflect on this training? What worked What did not work? Ways to improve

14. Questions??jsmucker@highline.edu206 592-3856

15. Keys to a successful I-BEST • Introduction & Overview • The Team • Prepare for Class • Prepare across campus • Who are your students • Teach and Learn • Review and Reflect