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TERRY SHAMBLIN (English)
Monroe Community College, Rochester, NYGSCC has reinforced my belief that community and collaboration are the keys to professional growth. This group of dedicated professionals has enriched me personally and professionally with their scholarship, encouragement, ideas, adaptability, and, most of all, their very cool teaching materials and methods.
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GSCC Publications
Project Reports
Presentations
Articles & Book Chapters
Pedagogy Matters! Manifesto
2011
GSCC faculty’s declaration to pursue an ongoing national conversation about developmental education pedagogy.
Project Reports
Pedagogy Matters: Perspectives of Community College Developmental Educators
May 2011
The report from the national Jam in February 2011, Pedagogy Matters!
Student Focus Groups on Developmental Community College Pedagogy: What Professors Do To Support Student Success
March 2011
The focus group of thirty-two GSCC students sought to delve deeper into issues that students had identified in the past two Student Jams.
Second Student Jam on Community College Teaching and Learning
November 2010
In our second semester jam students identified the top pedagogical factors that they see as leading to their success in developmental classes.
First Student Jam on Community College Teaching and Learning
April 2010
Our first semester opportunity to hear feedback from the students of our GSCC faculty.
Base Camp Jam
December 2009
Introduced GSCC faculty to each other, to the team, and to the project
Presentations
Action Pedagogy: Global Skills for College Completion
April 2011
Authored by Diana Woolis and presented by Louise Yarnell at AERA
Global Skills for College Completion: An Online Community of Innovation
March 2010
Presentation made at Innovations 2010 conference, sponsored by League for Innovation in the Community College. Presenters: Katrina Nichols, Rosemary Arca, Marisa Klages
Article & Book Chapter
In Search of a New Developmental-Education Pedagogy
May-June 2011
By Gail O. Mellow, Diana D. Woolis and Diana Laurillard
Published in Change, The Magazine for Higher Learning
The authors describe the GSCC project. What happens in the classrooms of some faculty whose students succeed at a rate consistently higher than the students taught by their colleagues at the same school?
Our Head in the Cloud: Transforming Work on College Completion (chapter)
January 2011
By Diana D. Woolis and Gail O. Mellow
In Educating Educators with Social Media: Cutting-Edge Technologies in Higher Education, edited by Charles Wankel
This chapter describes the GSCC project, the Guided Digital Environment, and the research drawn on to build it. Also included are early information and observations on the essential design elements for identifying effective basic skills pedagogy.