1 / 55

Ice Breaker

Ice Breaker. What is one of your goals for attending the training session today? Think Pair Share. Cuyamaca College El Cajon, CA. Overview. Research on program effectiveness Resources for faculty and students Suggestions for using the text Do What You Are and PEPS

caldwell-whitfield
Download Presentation

Ice Breaker

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Ice Breaker What is one of your goals for attending the training session today? Think Pair Share

  2. Cuyamaca College El Cajon, CA

  3. Overview • Research on program effectiveness • Resources for faculty and students • Suggestions for using the text • Do What You Are and PEPS • Technology for the New Millennial Generation • Engaging students in learning

  4. Program Results Program Review 2000, 2005

  5. The most significant finding is increased persistence.

  6. Persistence • Students who return the next semester • Approximately half of community college students nationwide do not persist after the first semester

  7. College Persistence Semester to Semester5 Year Average • All successful PDC students 89% • All students 63% • A 26% difference

  8. Student Confidence • The course helped 62% of students feel more confident about their academic skills

  9. Student Satisfaction 88% of students rated the course as very good or good.

  10. Grade Improvement • 72% of student agreed or strongly agreed that the course helped to improve grades

  11. College Success: A Study of Positive and Negative Attrition Community College Review

  12. The Successful Student • Had a definite goal or college major • Based on this research, choosing a major and career planning was included in our college success course.

  13. Classroom exercises Syllabus Research PowerPoint Internet Links Resources for Facultyhttp://www.cuyamaca.edu/collegesuccess

  14. Suggestions for Using the Text

  15. Features • College, career and lifelong success • Do What You Are and PEPS • Interactive activities within chapters • Quizzes and answers • Journal entries • Exercises at end of chapter • College Success Website with resources for faculty and students

  16. College Success • Motivation • Time and Money • Memory and Reading • Test Taking • Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking

  17. Career Success • Personality and Related Majors • Learning Style and Intelligence • Interests and Values • Career and Educational Planning

  18. Lifelong Success • Communication and Relationships • Critical and Creative Thinking • Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle • Appreciating Diversity • Positive Thinking • Life Stages

  19. Applied Psychology Course • Theory and practical application • Academic rigor • Transferable to state universities

  20. Bridge High School Community College University

  21. Expectations for Students • Read the text before coming to class • Short Quizzes • Journal Entries • Focus your class on interactive exercises and discussion rather than lecture

  22. Journal Entries • A way for students to think critically about the subject matter and apply it to their personal lives • Most answers should be a well developed paragraph • Show a model of what you expect • Collect them at the beginning of class

  23. Key Themes Learning Style • Personality

  24. Personality • Carl Jung and personality type • Online:

  25. Key Theme • Choosing a major • Career choice • Learning Style • Communication • Self-understanding

  26. Carl Jung 1875-1961 • We are born with natural preferences which we develop over a lifetime. • Exercise: What is a preference?

  27. Resources • Do What You Are Handbook • Psychometric Report Located at www.cuyamaca.edu/collegesuccess

  28. Administering the DWYA • Find a time when you are not tired or rushed. • There are no right or wrong answers. • Each type has their own unique gifts and talents.

  29. Getting Good Results • Encourage students to give honest answers. • What are some reasons students would not give honest answers? • Think, Pair, Share

  30. Administering the DWYA • The test does not measure: • Intelligence • Psychological or emotional health

  31. Administering the DWYA • Answer the questions honestly to get the best results. • Answer the questions how you usually are when you are not stressed. • Do not answer the questions: • How you want to be • How you have to be at home, work or school • How others want you to be

  32. Extravert or Introvert? How we interact with the world and where we place our energy E_____________________________|____________________________I Extraversion Introversion

  33. Sensing or Intuitive? The kind of information we naturally notice and remember S_____________________________|___________________________N Sensing Intuition

  34. By Ian Jackson

  35. Personality Exercise • Write about the picture for 5 minutes

  36. Thinking or Feeling? How we make decisions T_____________________________|___________________________F Thinking Feeling

  37. Judging or Perceptive Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way J_____________________________|_____________________________P JudgingPerceiving

  38. Exercise: Judging or Perceptive • I can play anytime. • I have to finish my work before I play

  39. The PEPS Learning Style Assessment • Measures preferences in 20 areas • Perceptual • Auditory • Visual • Kinesthetic • Tactile

  40. PEPS • Immediate environment • Sound • Heat • Light • Design (formal or informal)

  41. PEPS • Emotionality • Motivation • Responsibility • Persistence • Structure

  42. PEPS • Sociological • Self oriented • Peer oriented • Adult oriented

  43. PEPS • Physical • Time of day • Food intake • Mobility

More Related