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ROSEMARY ARCA (English)
Foothill College, Los Altos Hills, CAThe GSCC experience has reminded me of the importance of reflection both for students and for the classroom practitioner. The reflection we do as part of our GSCC Tools and Routines informs and shapes everything I now do in the classroom.
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Join GSCC 2.0
Do you want to invigorate your teaching and classroom practice and inspire more students to pass your developmental class? If so, apply to be part of GSCC 2.0. Global Skills for College Completion invites you to experience your classroom in a whole new way – for improved student outcomes and better recognition of your work. [...]
GSCC at NADE
Global Skills for College Completion will be exhibiting at the National Association of Developmental Educators Conference (NADE) 2/22/12-2/24/12. If you will be at NADE stop by our booth to meet GSCC alumni, and the Principal Investigators of the project. You’ll get a sneak peek at the activities of GSCC and have the opportunity to apply [...]
GSCC Continues!
LaGuardia Community College Foundation Receives $1.05M for Global Skills for College Completion Long Island City, NY—January 19, 2012–LaGuardia Community College Foundation has been awarded a $1,048,143 grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to continue the development of Global Skills for College Completion (GSCC). GSCC, a project partnership between LaGuardia Community College and Knowledge [...]
30 Second GSCC
Global Skills for College Completion is a project which seeks to raise pass rates in Developmental Math and English by asking faculty to look deeply and methodically at what they are doing in the classroom and by tagging their classroom practice with a closed set of themes. We asked faculty two questions: * How has [...]
GSCC Design Team Spreads the Word
The GSCC Design Team have been busy sharing their findings across the country. At the League for Innovations Conference, Innovations 2011, in San Diego, Project Co-PIs, Drs. Gail Mellow and Diana Woolis, along with Dr. Louise Yarnall, lead evaluator from SRI, presented on “Pedagogical Patterning: Discovering the Patterns of Developmental Educators: A Story in Three [...]
National Jam Wrap Up: Manifesto
Part 3: Manifesto As the Jam came to a close we asked faculty to join us in contributing to a draft manifesto on developmental education. This manifesto is now rich with multiple voices and is undergoing further development. Introduction Part 1: Instructional Strategies, Student Context, and Faculty Attributes Part 2: Assessment
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National Jam Wrap Up: Assessment
Part 2: Assessment In the second part of the Jam we explored Assessment, looking at what GSCC faculty do to find evidence of student learning, and listening as national faculty discussed these issues. One Faculty said “I would love to be able to collect data on thousands of individual students (every type of variable you [...]
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National Jam Wrap Up: Instructional Strategies, Student Context and Faculty Attributes
Part 1: Instructional Strategies, Student Context, and Faculty Attributes In our forums about Instructional Strategies, Jammers discussed the importance of reflection, contextualization, and engagement in student learning. These lively threads allowed faculty and administrators from across the United States to converse with each other about how these themes resonate for them in their own classrooms [...]
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National Jam Wrap Up from the Project Director
When we first discussed hosting a National Jam we were excited, but we were anxious. We’d set our sights at attempting to reach 400 registrants for the event. Before we even implemented our communication plan, we’d hit 800 registrants! We were overwhelmed with excitement. But what really energized us was when our Jam attendees really [...]
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A Look Back: Presentations by GSCC Faculty and Team Members