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Basic Skills Revision and Support: Making Sense of the Blizzard of Innovation

Explore curricular and student support innovations for basic skills education. Understand decision-making processes, practical realities, curricular possibilities, support services, and local options and initiatives. Join us at ASCCC 2012 Curriculum Institute in San Francisco.

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Basic Skills Revision and Support: Making Sense of the Blizzard of Innovation

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  1. David Morse, ASCCC Curriculum Committee Chair Donna Mae Villanueva, Los Angeles Pierce College, Dean Jeff Waller, Grossmont College Basic Skills Revision and Support: Making Sense of the Blizzard of Innovation ASCCC 2012 Curriculum Institute San Francisco, July 12-14

  2. Starter Questions • What curricular or student support innovations regarding basic skills has your college explored or implemented? • What curricular or student support innovations regarding basic skills have you heard of and would you like more information about?

  3. Basic Skills Revision and Support:Decision-Making Processes • Importance of basing decisions on data • How and what kind of data to use • Misinterpretations of data – “Knee-Jerk Reforms on Remediation” • Comparing wrong populations • Who to include in the process

  4. Basic Skills Revision and Support:Practical Realities • Economic and Budgetary Factors • Enrollment Management Issues • Logistics and Resource Issues

  5. Basic Skills Revision and Support:Curricular Possibilities • Acceleration • What does this mean? Differing definitions • Modularization • Compression • Contextualized Instruction • Learning Communities • Summer Bridge program • Mainstreamed courses • Working with K-12 to restructure courses between high school and college

  6. Basic Skills Revision and Support:Support Services Possibilities • Supplemental Instruction • Big SI vs. little si • Skills Centers • Tutoring Services

  7. Basic Skills Revision and Support:Local Options and Initiatives • What has worked for your college? • What has been tried and not worked? • What would you like to explore? • What data did/would your college look at to drive developmental education reform? • Would your college be willing to share data on outcomes from any reforms/revisions made at your college?

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