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• Faculty Benefits

• Faculty Development Materials

• Pedagogical Insight Process - 1st in California!

• Learning Community Counseling Resources

• Other Resources

• References

Faculty Benefits

• Experience a Learning Community environment that promotes the highest educational, intellectual and social development for students

• Have a deeper, more effective impact on student retention, persistence and success

• Build stronger relationships with your students

• Achieve personal and professional growth through collaborative teaching with other faculty members

• Expand your knowledge and understanding of successful teaching styles, techniques and methods

• Discover and explore new scholarly interests

• Have fun while enjoying the challenge of teaching in a Learning Community!

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Faculty Development Materials

• Requirements for Linked Courses Resource Packet

  • Sample Integrated Syllabus - PDF

  • Sample Integrated Course Schedule - PDF

  • Early Assessment Plan

  • Ice Breaker Plan

  • First Week: Sample Student Survey - WORD

• Promising Syllabus

  • "How to create a Promising Syllabus"

    • PDF

    • PowerPoint

  • Samples (WORD)

    • English 43

    • English 56

    • English 100

    • Chicano Studies 135

    • LCOM: English 101 + Health 101

  • Testimonials

• Learning Styles

  • Learning Styles Handout (PDF)
    (Source: Learning Assistance Center
                 at City College of S.F.)

  • Learning Styles PowerPoint (courtesy of K. Lim)

  • Learning Styles in the ESL/EFL Classroom (PDF)

  • Instructor Self Assessment

• Culturally Relevant & Responsive Education (PDF)
  Presentation by Dr. Noma LeMoine (1/22/09)

  • Part 1: Background

  • Part 2: Strategies

  • Instructional Strategies

  • Quality Indicators

  • 6 Key Strategies/Classroom Observables

  • African American Language - Linguistic Features Guide

  • Mexican American Language - Linguistic Features Guide

• First in the Family:
  Advice About College from First-Generation Students

• Self-Paced Faculty Development

• Book: Sustaining and Improving Learning Communities

• Collaborative Teaching

  • The Challenges of Collaborative Teaching

  • Solutions: StrengthsQuest

• Strategies for Classroom Success

• Ken Bain: What the Best College Teachers Do

• On Course - Student Success Strategies

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Pedagogical Insight (PI) Process
Not just another student survey!

• City College PI Process - Background (PDF)
  City College is the 1st in California!

  • Ten Worst Teaching Mistakes - On Course

  • 67 Other "Teaching Mistake" Nominations

• Survey - core questions (The IDEA Center Instrument)

• Additional Survey Questions

  • Cultural Capital

    - DARDER: Toward Cultural Democracy

  • Learning Styles

  • On Course - Student Success Strategies

    - Introduction

• Faculty Information Form (FIF)

  • Video: Completing the FIF

  • IDEA Discipline Codes - Extended List

• Sample Survey Report

  • Interpretive Guide

  • 12 Learning Objectives

  • 20 Teaching Methods

  • Links: Learning Objectives, Teaching Styles
    & Teaching Methods (WORD)

• Other Resources

  • Changing Minds in Higher Education - Reference (PDF)

  • The IDEA Center Instrument - Background (PDF)

  • Bloom's Taxonomy

  • Krathwohl's Taxonomy

  • Seven Principles for Good Practice in Undergraduate Education (Chickering-Gamson) - Reference (PDF)

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Learning Community Counseling Resources

• Counseling Plan - Spring 2009

• Defining College Readiness - Inside Out (Pyramid Model)

• Student Success Questionnaire

• NOTE: Learning Community students receive PRIORITY counseling appointments.

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Other Resources

• "You Are Here" Map to Student Success

• Degrees and Certificates

  • Academic Programs - PDF

  • Career-Technical/Vocational Programs - PDF

  • GO - Basic Transfer and Career Info for students

  • STOP - Basic Drop and Withdraw Info for students

• Weekly Time Management Planner

• City College Counseling Department

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References

• Learning Communities and Student Engagement - PDF
  (research essay)

• Learning Communities National Resource Center

  • Sustaining Learning Communities:
    Moving from Curricular to Educational Reform
    (Winter 2008)

• League for Innovation in the Community College

  • iStream (multimedia resource - RECOMMENDED)

• Access Without Support Is Not Opportunity
  - V. Tinto (Inside Higher Ed, June 2008)

• Peer Review - Good Teaching:
  What Is It and How Do We Measure It? (Spring 09)

  • Understanding Great Teaching - Bain/Zimmerman

  • My Most Important Teaching Tool - Schmier

  • Connecting Beliefs with Research on
    Effective Undergraduate Education - Miller

• Integrated Learning Communities

• Integrative Learning Project

• Assessment of Innovative Efforts:
  Lessons from the Learning Community Movement
  - MacGregor, Tinto & Lindbald

• Broadening the Definition of Diversity

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