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- Foster a learning environment by including students in the learning process. Develop a sense of community within the classroom which will carry out into the entire campus/district.
- Continue the dialogues in other venues; engage others in the dialogues; reflect on today's learning.
- Have faculty more involved with ongoing classroom assessment.
- Try to improve communications.
- Talk to faculty senate about having students volunteer faculty on committees.
- Work with new faculty to set up study groups rather than office hours.
- Involve the students in every issue; involve the community in the issues (discussion, TV, radio); re-education; discuss what learning is all about.
- Educate our faculty on student concerns about their teaching methods. They want variety as they recognize they learning in different ways.
- We should have meetings or conferences more frequently to get the feedback; teacher-student group communication by setting a meeting in every campus, and district office until gather the information to report back to different campuses or district office acts on it.
- Try some pilot activities, etc., from the recommendations; communicate with today's participants, asking them to be part of the pilot activities.
- We can get committees together to get everyone involved (faculty and students); include bulletin boards with what's going on => get staff involved with students and students involved with staff; find a way for students to know what's going on from the top to the bottom.
- Begin with self learning; learn to learn; meet with learning communities where ever they form; continue to be conscious of opportunities.
- Get a group to agree to 'try' some of the recommendations and provide feedback to the larger community on effectiveness in moving 'learning as core value' ahead.
- Provide a safe environment for experimentation where non-tenured faculty don't feel at risk or threatened if they try or implement something new.
- There are many things that I, or even a group, can do to learn how to learn. You as a person need to want to learn. For faculty their teaching styles need to change. Get everyone involved. Grade them on how much interest or how much they apply themselves, not by paperwork.
- Communicate to faculty/staff and students about diversity efforts both on campus and on the district level.
- To act on issues as a group is to have more activities like these to have more people get involved. Individuals can spread the word to others by advertising.
- I think if we're going to be taught a new method of learning--we teach ourselves and classmates--then this method should be taught to elementary students, so when they get to this point it won't be so frustrating for them. Our classrooms should be a learning place where each student is 100% there. Teachers need to involve students more.
- The idea of asking for student feedback at end of many classes -- over subjects covered in class and general issues in the class. This can easily be incorporated into a class period.
- Allow the opportunity for students to apply what they learn to themselves and develop themselves instead of just expecting them to spit back information. Pay attention to how individuals learn. Help teachers strengthen their weaknesses.
- Ask for administrative support of recommendations to implement them. Actually put some recommendations in place at least on a trial basis.
- Provide students the opportunity to learn how they learn. Provide faculty the opportunity to recognize that they have diversity in more ways than just cultural in the classroom.
- Humanize the learning process.
- We can include students in processes (committees) and discussion; put suggestion boxes in the department offices; encourage faculty office hours with groups of students at any location.
- Diversity; in my opinion we should actually enforce them as much as we can. Also research more not only the students, but also the faculty in order to actually have an idea of how people, or most of the people, are thinking. I would probably talk more about this issue with other people.
- Have students put in suggestions and be rewarded with incentives.
- In order to transform our system, all the members meaning faculty and students should perhaps receive and share ideas at the same time instead of the information rolling down, allow for thought to roll up.
- In order to act upon the set of issues discussed today, students and teachers should try to acquaint themselves as people of a team. The established comfortability to speak up invited cooperative progress. Wecan keep each other informed about events like these and interact often.
Open Space Forum - 10.7.98 - Phoenix College
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