Daraja: A Syllabus For Life

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 | Comments (2)

The World In Your Hands

March 3, 2009

Welcome to an orientation film for the Disabled Students Programs and Services (DSPS) at Chabot College. Take a walk with us and explore the experiences of five students and a counselor, and learn how DSPS helped them reach their educational goals.      (FIN employee Jamie Chandler made this film while a student at Chabot [...]

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Equity, Fear, Identity, Learning Communities, Learning to Learn, Making Visible, Metacognition, Student Confidence, Student Interviews, Student Voice, Video Evidence | Comments (0)

The Sorceress’s Apprentices

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 | Comments (0)

Better Thinkers, Better Futures

February 25, 2009

“Better Thinkers, Better Futures” (2) The Perry Model: Dualism‡ Dr Aziza Ellozy, Director, Center for Learning and Teaching The very first time I walked in class to teach “Scientific Thinking”, I asked my students what they had heard about the course. One of the students responded that he heard that everything we learn in science [...]

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Teaching Problem Solving | Comments (0)