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Achieving the Dream Action Plan FY 2009-10 and FY 2010-11

Achieving the Dream Action Plan FY 2009-10 and FY 2010-11 Developmental Education – Learning Skills. Description-Action Item #1. Expand the use of computer technology while teaching the learning skills classes.

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Achieving the Dream Action Plan FY 2009-10 and FY 2010-11

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  1. Achieving the Dream Action Plan FY 2009-10 and FY 2010-11 Developmental Education – Learning Skills

  2. Description-Action Item #1 • Expand the use of computer technology while teaching the learning skills classes. • Investigate and utilize software and online components to be used in Learning Skills classes. • Pilot the placement of College Reading I and College Writing I classes in computer-assisted classrooms. • Develop lessons and materials to use in training adjunct instructors to use the computers in CAI classrooms

  3. Description-Action Item #2 • Expand the capacities of the Communications Lab • Expand the tutoring space and personnel by 50%. • Create a reading/study section of the lab with tutors or supplemental instructors to assist students in reading, comprehending, note-taking, and studying gatekeeper and other degree/certificate program course texts.

  4. Description-Action Item #3 • Additional help with adult literacy – software and tutorial personnel

  5. Description-Action Item #4 • Pilot a learning community in fall 2010: two linked sections of College Writing I and College Reading I with the same instructor and same students in the same classroom. • Analyze success. • Consider creating a learning community for all sections of CRI and CWI or some other combination to aid students to be successful and to stay in college and attain degrees.

  6. Description-Action Item #5 • Utilize collaborative learning techniques in College Writing II, College Reading II, and Study Skills courses. • If successful, pilot using collaborative techniques on a limited basis in College Reading I and College Writing I.

  7. Description-Action Items #6 & #7 • Continue to track the success rates of students who begin in College Reading I and College Writing I and make adjustments in curriculum. • Develop supplemental student instructors to assist during small group discussions

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