Intersecting Literacies: What Happened At the Working Conference

April 20, 2010

Hello and welcome to the home of Intersecting Literacies, a working conference held at San Diego Mesa College April 16th 2010. Here you will find materials passed out to participants as well as the responses and “queens” we collected. Stay tuned! Click here for the Intersecting Literacies  Multi-Modal Packet Click above to see the Post [...]

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Equity, Integrative Learning, Literacy, Making Visible, Metacognition, Multimedia, Reading, Student Confidence, Student Voice, Technology, Video Evidence, Writing | Comments (0)

Laney FIN team discussion

November 19, 2009

Discussion about student expectations of college and difficulties Latino students have with the idea of going to community college. Also, the benefits of doing the interviews by Esdras.

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Basic Skills in Context, Equity, Faculty Inquiry Groups (FIG), Fear, Identity, Integrative Learning, Learning Communities, Learning to Learn, Literacy, Making Visible, Metacognition, Student Confidence | Comments (0)

Marvin and Raul pairwork

November 12, 2009

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

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Basic Skills in Context, Career Technical Education, Integrative Learning, Learning Communities, Learning to Learn, Literacy, Performance Assessment, Student Teams, Student Voice, Think Alouds, Video Evidence | Comments (0)

LMC Puente/Math: Data and English: An undiscovered country

March 21, 2009

Announcement! Lesson study accomplished (but we still have to survey the information gathered, so not completely accomplished but you get what I mean). Our lesson study was organized as a series of three classes with each class serving to build skills and synthesize ideas between the reading and statistical information in regards to social class. [...]

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Developing Questions, Integrative Learning, Learning Communities, Literacy, Math, Reading, Writing | Comments (1)

LMC/Puente/Math Lesson Study: Math is fun!

March 11, 2009

Plan: Co-teach a lesson that combines math and English concepts. Myra Snell and I cooked up a project that would preview our math/English collaboration for next semester. We wanted to test our theories that math can be relevant /FUN and that math can inform themes of racial and class identity covered in my Puente cohort [...]

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Identity, Integrative Learning, Math, Student Confidence | Comments (1)

Learning Community Impact Study

February 3, 2009

The following links provide an example of integrating different kinds of institutional data into an Inquiry into student learning. The Inquiry focused on understanding the impact a new learning community was having on participating students. It tracks the founding cohort of learning community students over a year and a half, looking at their rates of [...]

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Equity, Integrative Learning, Learning Communities, Reading, Using Institutional Research, Writing | Comments (0)