FIN goes to Achieving the Dream!
The Faculty Inquiry Network was well represented at the recent Achieving The Dream Conference held February 2nd through the 4th in Charlotte, North Carolina. Tom deWit, Katie Hern, and Sean McFarland presented at 4 breakout sessions:
- Engaging Faculty and Staff in Student‐Centered Inquiry about Teaching,
- Learning and Student Success, Accelerating Students’ Progress to College‐Level English and Math,
- Listening to the Room: The Promise of Integrating Student Voices into Basic Skills Initiatives,
- Equity as the Practice of Love and Liberation.
deWit and Hern also served as panel members in two Strategy Institute’s Focus Area Networking Sessions: Developmental English and Success Initiatives for Men of Color.
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FIN Co-Directors hold all the secrets to successful Inquiry in the Red Suitcase.
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Below are documents passed out in Charlotte, North Carolina:
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Engaging Faculty and Staff in Student‐Centered Inquiry about Teaching,Learning and Student Success:
FIN’S Guide to Faculty Inquiry
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Accelerating Students’ Progress to College‐Level English and Math:
Accelerating Student’s Progress Through College-Level English and Math PDF
Chabot College’s acceleration data
Paulo Freire excerpt from Ways of Reading: an Anthology for Writers
Stat Path Handout from Los Medanos College
Link to LMC Puente Math’s StatPath Video
Instructor Myra Snell’s Observations about this Video
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Listening to the Room: The Promise of Integrating Student Voices into Basic Skills Initiatives:
Summaries of all 778 Films Movies
Link to the movie “Listening to the Room”
Student Voices Across California Brochure
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Equity as the Practice of Love and Liberation:
Equity as the Practice of Love and Liberation PDF
The Umoja Community’s Brochure
Link to the Umoja Community’s Website
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Marvin and Raul pairwork
An example of contextualized learning, using the think aloud method–student takes time to produce the words he is looking to express. Teacher coaches and other student helps. The student then uses motions in the repetition of recalled expression.
Marvin and Raul pairwork
Contextualized Teaching & Learning: A Faculty Primer
Hello Finners,
The Contextualized Teaching & Learning: A Faculty Primer is a document funded by The Chancellor’s Office of the California Community Colleges and produced by The Center for Student Success/RP Group, The Academic Senate for California Community Colleges, Basic Skills Initiative, and Bay Area Work Force Funding Collaborative. FIN Leadership feels all FIN teams will benefit from reading this document. This packet features members of the FIN network and other individuals whose work relates to Inquiries being pursued by FIN. Our Co-director Tom deWit has been featured in this piece on page 45, Myra Snell can be found on page 27 and Allison Tom-Miura on page 35.
We highly recommend teams peruse the entire document. You may do so by clicking the following excerpt.
The following report offers California community college faculty a closer look at
Mesa Cribs Writing and Video Assignments
Hello All!
At the Summer Institute, some of you asked to see the actual assignments we gave students for their essays and videos. Here they are. Feedback is very welcome, since we’ll be revisiting the assignments for Fall.
Mesa Cribs Video Project
Cribs Essay Prompt
About FIN
The Faculty Inquiry Network’s (FIN) purpose is to support professional development which includes: conducting faculty inquiry; revisiting basic skills assumptions; interpreting and integrating data; accessing student voices; developing students as co-inquirers; making visible; using technology for teaching and learning; creating and supporting new initiatives, curriculum and program development; constructing educational tools using digital media; and hosting dialogue around student and faculty learning.
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