Transitions2010

Transitions from stumbling blocks to stepping stones Lucy Tribble MacDonald [email_address]

Stumbling block here is the gap .
We need to develop a connection with the college and connections with college faculty, administrators, counselors and staff.

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Stepping Stone #1 - Be visible on campus.
Example: Office area in different locations
Multidiscipline group
Shared office – electronics
Consulting office - nursing

Stepping Stone #1 - Be visible on campus .
Benefits:
De facto consultant for that program
Easy way to build relationships with faculty
Perceived a “real” faculty

How does the campus perceive you?
How do they refer to your program?
Is it still remedial reading?
“ Perception is real even when it is not reality.”
-- Edward de Bono

Is it still remedial reading?
Stepping Stone # 2: Speak Academic.
Get help with Stanislas Dehaene’s
Reading in the brain:
The science and evolution of a human invention
Number Sense: How the mind creates mathematics

Coordinate Services with your program
Advising
Counseling
Distance Learning

Advising
Stepping Stone # 3
Coordinate and integrate advising
Example: Pre-tech program

Distance Learning
Stumbling Block:
We don’t recommend online classes for
those students.

Distance Learning
Stepping Stone :
Design online classes specifically for development students.
http://www.lucyonline.com/mnade

Counseling
Stepping Stone:
Can you refer students to me?

Stepping Stones within your Program

Stumbling Block:
Which stepping stone is first?
Aha. The placement test will tell us. Right?

Stepping Stone:
Schedule various levels at the same time to allow for adjustments of placement without rescheduling.

Stumbling Block
“ We do not ensure a seamless transition.”
-- Hunter Boylan

Stepping Stones:
Exit level standards for one level course are consistent with the entry level for the next level course.

Stumbling Block
“ We do not train adjunct faculty teaching developmental courses.”
-- Hunter Boylan

Stumbling Block
“ ... Only 35% of developmental courses in the community colleges are taught by full time faculty.”
-- Hunter Boylan

Stepping stones:
Develop online training courses
Provide incentives for participation
Provide training manuals
Provide mentors
-- Hunter Boylan

Stepping stones:
Provide a formal plan for training adjunct faculty in Developmental Math
Ties together Developmental Math and the Math department
Provides instructional materials for non-traditional approaches to developmental math
Provides ongoing mentoring
-- Selina Vasquez Mireles

Stumbling Block:
“ Reading is the
invisible curriculum .”
--Lucy MacDonald

Stepping Stones:
Analogous to teaching thinking
Edward de Bono’s explanation of thinking

Stepping Stones:
Our brain was not designed for reading, but recycles some of its circuits for this novel cultural activity.
--Dehaene

Stepping stone: Contextual Reading
Reading Scenario
“ I have a Master’s degree in Reading, why can’t I read my computer science textbook.”

Contextual Reading
McWhorter, Kathleen T.
Academic Reading .
Pearson.
Customized.

Contextual Reading
Academic Reading
Social Sciences
Business
Humanities and the Arts
Mathematics
Natural Sciences
Technical and Applied Fields

Contextual Resources
19 different disciplines
http://www.howtostudy. org
Example: Biology
how to read a biology textbook
how to write a biology lab report

Stepping Stone:
Paired Courses
Linked Courses

Review the journey Thank you Lucy Tribble MacDonald [email_address]

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by Lucy MacDonald on May 26, 2010

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