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Improving Success in 1st
15 Credit Hours
RDG/AS:
Hybrid Courses Linked Learning Communities (half class time and half online
instruction) for students at the upper end of the upper developmental course
(RDG 030) and a first-year experience course (GE 101). Example: Tuesday classes
will be taught in class and the rest of the week will be devoted to online
learning. Specifically the goal is to improve entry-level content reading
skills, learning independence, as well as collaborative skills, and to
positively promote critical thinking, decision-making, problem solving and
life/career/educational planning.
Additional value: This provides flexibility of
scheduling for students and opens up two scarce classrooms at peek times. Contact: Dan Kesterson or Maria Galyon
See Hybrid Course Research
and Literature Review
See Hybrid advising Guidelines
Writing- SW: Hybrid ENC
090/091 Course – Course meets one day a week and is online the rest of the
week, Goal
is to help move students through developmental writing in a flexible and timely
manner. Contact: Linda Klein and Zo Zausch
RDG/AS: Linked Learning Communities - All
developmental reading classes involve two or more classes linked thematically
or by content which a cohort of students takes together. All the developmental
reading courses are linked by at least one other course which focuses on
improving the likelihood of student retention and academic success, while
increasing student involvement and motivation, and enhancing student
intellectual development. The lowest level reading class is paired with a
vocabulary/concept development class. The two upper developmental classes are
paired with a freshmen-year seminar class. Pedagogical emphasis is on
interpersonal dialogue, collaboration, and experiential learning within the
context of diversity. These programs address a decreasing sense of community
and connection and allow students to relate their college-level learning to
larger personal and global questions. Contact: Dan Kesterson
See Academic Success and Learning Communities Literature
Review
RDG/AS: Team Teaching - The division is piloting
team-taught linked learning communities in which a greater degree of faculty
planning and collaboration of the courses. As a result it is believed that
team-teaching and greater contextualization of the courses with entry-level
content courses will be the direction that the division will follow in the
future. Contact: Dan Kesterson
See Team Teaching Literature Review
RDG/AS: Alternative Instruction – When conditions or circumstances
arise in which a student(s) are finding themselves becoming unsuccessful because
the standard structure of the classroom, they can be offered alternative
instruction, which is open ended through the Alternative and
Writing- DT Developmental Writing Course Sequence – The learning
outcomes and goals are be realigned to interface with ENG 101 – Contact: Michael Ginsberg