BALANCING BASIC SKILLS AND EQUITY ISSUES Joan Córdova, Daniel S. Pittaway, Darwin Smith - Basic Skills Committee, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges Julius B. Thomas - Equity & Diversity Action Committee, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges November 2009
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BALANCING BASIC SKILLS AND EQUITY ISSUES
Joan Córdova, Daniel S. Pittaway, Darwin Smith - Basic Skills Committee, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
Julius B. Thomas - Equity & Diversity Action Committee, Academic Senate for California Community Colleges
November 2009
3x5 Card Activity
Name
DateSubject
Number of years teaching Define Equity. List two strategies focused on
“universal design” is an educational framework based on research in the learning sciences.
It includes cognitive neuroscience and guides the development of flexible learning environments that can accommodate individual learning differences.
Universal Design Universal Design for Learning
helps meet the challenges of diversity by recommending: use of flexible instructional materials techniques strategies that empower educators
the tools they need to meet students' diverse needs.
UDL – improves educational outcomes
Educators can improve outcomes for diverse learners by applying the following principles to the development of goals, instructional methods, classroom materials and assessments.
Principle 1– Presentation
Provide multiple and flexible methods of presentation to give students with diverse learning styles various ways of acquiring information and knowledge.
Principle 2 – Expression
Provide multiple and flexible means of expression to provide diverse students with alternatives for demonstrating what they have learned.
Principle 3 – Engagement
Provide multiple and flexible means of engagement to tap into diverse learners' interests, challenge them appropriately, and motivate them to learn.
The 3 Principles…
…lend themselves to implementing inclusionary practices in the classroom.
Student Data
Ethnicity % of Total Head Count % of Total Enrollment (Credit) % of Enrollment (Noncredit)
Credit and Noncredit Unduplicated Headcounts by Ethnicity
3 - Classroom Assessment Techniques Classroom assessment is both a teaching
approach and a set of techniques. The approach is that the more you know about what and how students are learning, the better you can plan learning activities to structure your teaching. The techniques are mostly simple, non-graded, anonymous, in-class activities that give both you and your students useful feedback on the teaching-learning process.
4 - Active Learning Strategies
There is a large amount of research attesting to the benefits of active learning.
"Active Learning" - anything that students do in a classroom other than merely passively listening to an instructor's lecture. More specifically, learners should be cognitively active.
5 - Learning Communities Linked courses: Students take two connected
courses, usually one disciplinary course such as history or biology and one skills course such as writing, speech, or information literacy.
Learning clusters: Students take three or more connected courses, usually with a common interdisciplinary theme uniting them.
Freshman interest groups: Similar to learning clusters, but the students share the same major, and they often receive academic advising as part of the learning community.
Pair Share
1. Select a partner.2. Review the five CATEGORIES.3. Choose one category; select one