How We Work

GSCC has developed Tools and Routines that allow faculty, individually and collaboratively, to record, share, and analyze their practice. This record, in turn, allows the GSCC Team to analyze the collective faculty practice in search of pedagogical themes and patterns that are associated with high student pass rates.

The Tools are online resources that make it easy for individual faculty to document their work. The Routines guide their individual and group activities. For example, faculty post specified information in their ePortfolios weekly and use the theme glossary to tag their reflection on their practice. They also review and comment on the tags of a colleague and periodically discuss their work and themes with their discipline-based team in a polilogue forum.   It is these themes and the emerging patterns that they represent that the GSCC Team is working to link to improved student outcomes.

• ePortfolios for the recording of faculty practice
• The Online Community or “polilogue” for collaborative discussion
• Pathfinder, a database in which we collect all faculty-generated materials, including lesson plans and classroom materials
• Jams to engage a wider audience in an online exchange

You can see the GSCC faculty design team’s work by visiting the pages for each semester.
First Semester
Second Semester
Third Semester.
Fourth Semester