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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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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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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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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March 10, 2009
A. Zoom-Lens Inquiry: Focusing on Students 1) What data will you gather and analyze on individual students? (e.g. student work, self-reflections, interviews, videotaped think-alouds or problem-solving) In the first two weeks of class, we asked the students to fill out a reading survey. Among other things, the survey asked them to identify “texts” they read [...]
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Equity, Reading, Using Institutional Research |
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March 6, 2009
The Daraja project, founded in 1988 at Chabot College is widely recognized as one of the best opportunities for success for underrepresented students, especially African-American students, in the California community-college system. In this film, current and former Daraja students speak candidly about their educational preparation before entering Daraja and then share their personal needs [...]
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Equity, Fear, Identity, Learning Communities, Learning to Learn, Literacy, Making Visible, Metacognition, Multimedia, Reading, Student Confidence, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Video Evidence, Writing |
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March 3, 2009
A long, long time ago, in a college about a quarter mile off Interstate 880…four students and a teacher, fueled by a SPECC grant, set out on an epic quest to ask the questions no one dared to ask about reading. Facing over 125 daunting student intake essays, 50 hours of intensive interviews, and [...]
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Developing Questions, Fear, Identity, Learning to Learn, Literacy, Making Visible, Metacognition, Reading, Student Confidence, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Video Evidence |
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March 3, 2009
In this video, Chabot College Basic Skills students demonstrate and discuss effective reading strategies they have learned over the course of the semester. English Instructor Alisa Klevens discusses how she adapts Reading Apprenticeship concepts to meet the needs of these students.
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Acceleration, Fear, Identity, Learning to Learn, Literacy, Making Visible, Metacognition, Reading, Student Confidence, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Video Evidence |
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