Title:
Incentives for
learning/
involvement
Convener:
Nancy Siefer
Participants:
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Discussion:
- What questions might you ask if you didn't know the syllabus/content
collaboration on writing our syllabi.
- Our incentives based on showing up to class, 45th day arbitrary...we
would do things differently in our classroom if FTSE were based on last
day of class rather than 45th day. 45th day is artificial and does not
support learning.
- Concept of the Carnegie hour...how about partial credit for partial attendance. Evergreen does something like this, in contracting if they haven't done the work, then sometimes they don't get full credit.
- High frustration level of class time for testing...waste of instructional time.
- Concern about emphasis on "objective" measurement. Points are arbitrary and
not related to learning.
- Begin semester with 4c's of accountability: communication, commitment, competency and something (Diana Abel) Students have to submit their own c's of accountability and it also becomes part of the final.
- Why are you here? (student) Diana: (student to her) You're paid to be here.
- I want to see credit card companies banned from our hallways...so many students drowning in debt, falling asleep in class because they can's keep up.
- Issue of whether "I flunked him" or "he flunked."
- Statement of student responsibilities an urgent issue. People come in without a handle on what's required of them. Ruth Callahan: I'd be willing to conduct an orientation. Stress the realities of college expectations.
- ACCOMMODATION (on our part) leads to student resentment of expectation they will work.
- TESTING...but I can sign a waiver and take a class anyway.
- We would like to find a way to teach them focus.
- Common in Eng 071 class (comparison/contrast: "In college the teachers don't care.")
- Sometimes learning isn't fun; (times tables; basic verb conjugations)
- "I'm tired of fighting."
- If you had different students, would you teach differently? Yes, they could come to me having read the material and we could start at a higher level.
- I used to do therapy on heroin addicts...way to get them off drugs is to show them something better. St. Teresa. (Carl Samuels)
- How do we learn?
- FEP/ LEARNING LOAD: Teach four and take one. Faculty Development could go to Tessa ask for X$$ for learning load...every x years you can take a colleagues class and be accountable. As a part of the plan that every x years you need to be involved in a learning situation.
- COMING TOGETHER. Evergreen has a 2 hr block every week. I cannot give my students motivation, but I can keep myself up. We have to watch out because our ennui spreads.
- We have confidence in our academic dean to support.
- Sabbatical funding/projects structured a lot like grades...easily verifiable and quantifiable. We don't encourage each other to do sabbaticals and faculty exchanges in Maricopa.
- Mandatory continuing education for professionals also to maintain their certificates.
Open Space Forum - 04.07.99 - Glendale Community College
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