July 13, 2010
“Community colleges are the point of entry to higher education for the majority of nation’s
first generation, minority and low-income students. But there is a harsh reality that these
students may not understand when they receive their English and Math placement results:
the more semesters of remedial courses a student is required to take, the more remote that
student’s chances of passing college-level Math or English and being eligible to transfer
or earn a degree…”
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Acceleration, Basic Skills in Context, Literacy, Making Visible, Math, Multimedia, Reading, Using Institutional Research, Video Evidence, Writing |
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June 30, 2010
On April 15, 2010, the De Anza College Office of Instruction, Office of Diversity and ICCE, and Office of Staff and Organizational Development presented their annual conference devoted to student success. The event, “What’s Love Got To Do With It,” brought together both students and faculty and was a huge success. To facilitate an extension [...]
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Basic Skills in Context, Equity, Fear, Identity, Literacy, Metacognition, Student Confidence |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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June 29, 2009
Some of you asked about assignments we use to help students become comfortable discussing their personal lives. We also discussed how “disclosure” can have a variety of effects. Here is an assignment we use at the beginning of class to help students open up while learning how to do a close reading, respond to text, [...]
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Reading, Student Voice, Writing |
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June 29, 2009
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
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Basic Skills in Context, Literacy, Making Visible, Reading, Writing |
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May 14, 2009
I posted before about how valuable Coach Katie’s visit to LPC was . . . I have now posted the lesson study questions that informed our discussion of the lesson, which we watched footage of during our meeting. It was very interesting to consider the value and utility of the grammar lesson from the student’s [...]
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Basic Skills in Context, Developing Questions, Literacy, Making Visible, Metacognition, Video Evidence, Writing |
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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 |
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