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Foundations Inquiry Team

Empowering educators across disciplines to enhance student success through affective domain practices. Comprehensive plan for curriculum redesign and professional development. Join us!

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Foundations Inquiry Team

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  1. Foundations Inquiry Team

  2. Fall 2017 Goals • To inform use of affective domain in student learning outcomes, curriculum, teaching, professional development, & assessment in “foundations” courses in a variety disciplines. • Ensure that students demonstrate the skills, beliefs, and behaviors that lead to student success.

  3. Accomplishments • Outlined a list of 6 areas of “best practices” to inform use of affective domain (cross disciplinary). This stuff is juicy!

  4. Accomplishments • Requested, received, & analyzed PRIE data with regards to the foundational classes (first 30 units students experience at the college).   • Identified possible “foundations” classes: • ENGL 100/105/100 • MATH 120/200 • COMM 110 • HIST 201 • BIO 130 • ECON 100 • ESOL 400 • BUS 100 • PSYC 100

  5. Accomplishments • We have clear goals for Spring 2018: • Taking into account the our list of best practices and PRIE data ->Spring 2018 work with the goal of piloting a “Foundations CoP” in Fall 2018. • Coming back to this. Hold your horses for our “Moving Forward” slides.

  6. Challenges • Finding available faculty and staff • Sometimes intermittent attendance by those who could commit Lots of ongoing projects & many work teams -> folks are busy!

  7. Successes • We had many. Yeah!

  8. We had a committed team. Chris Gibson, English/Language Arts Mary Gutierrez, Language Arts Michele Haggar, Career Services David Hasson, Math Karah Parks, ESOL Bianca Rowden-Quince, CTTL Erinn Struss, ESOL Phillip Williams, Math

  9. Successes • Remained on track with regards to our overall goals and timeline.   • We did this by: • Setting clear goals • Establishing and communicating meeting times and dates (at the first meeting) • Starting each meeting with a clear objective • Dividing tasks & having timelines • Proactively seeking team members • Creating an online house for all team members to access (a shared Google folder) • Starting with true inquiry

  10. Moving Forward (Longer Term) • We would like to run a pilot: • When: Fall 2018 • Who: Instructors teaching the “foundations” courses (ENGL 100/110/105, MATH 120/200, COMM 110, HIST 201, BIO 130, ECON 100, ESOL 400, BUS 100, PSYC 100) • What: 1 semester of reassignment time for curricular redesign & foundations CoP (with possibility of extending CoP another semester) • How: Reassignment time for creating curricula, piloting practices/lesson plans, and meeting with Foundations CoP • Why: Start small and practice what we preach

  11. Moving forward (Shorter Term) • We have set a first meeting date for Spring 2018. At this meeting we will: • Schedule meeting dates for spring & decide on spring work plan. • In spring, we need to: • Set up parameters for Fall 2018 pilot • & . . .

  12. Moving forward • We need members from: • Communications • History • Biology • Economics • Business • Psychology • & possibly Counseling! Lithograph by Steve Thomas

  13. Resources We would like: • $$ Compensation $$: • Compensation for faculty involved in Foundations Inquiry work meetings in Spring 2018 • Budget for pilot project in Fall 2018 (for reassignment time and, if possible, for occasional snacks at meetings)

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