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Professional Development August 5, 2010 Montgomery College

Professional Development August 5, 2010 Montgomery College. Ice Breaker. Happiness is ____ We all know our friends and family make us happy. What else?. Overview CollegeScope. Key Features Resources Research (brief) College success for the New Millennial student A quick tour

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Professional Development August 5, 2010 Montgomery College

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  1. Professional Development August 5, 2010 Montgomery College

  2. Ice Breaker • Happiness is ____ • We all know our friends and family make us happy. What else?

  3. Overview CollegeScope • Key Features • Resources • Research (brief) • College success for the New Millennial student • A quick tour • Skills checklist • Improving retention and success • Introducing CollegeScope to your students

  4. Key Features

  5. Keys to Success • The program helps students to make a good choice of a major and career.

  6. Statistically accurate • Valid and reliable • College scenarios are easy to read and understand.

  7. Keys to Success The program helps students to understand theirlearning style andhow to become a lifelong learner.

  8. The PEPS Learning Style Assessment • Measures preferences in 20 areas

  9. Personalized for each student Based on personality and learning style Refers to the student by their name

  10. Applied Psychology • From theory to practice • Academically rigorous, yet practical • Easy to read • Structured writing assignments for new and developmental students

  11. Broad Scope • College success • Career success • Lifelong success

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

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

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

  15. College Success 1 • Resources for faculty and students • www.collegesuccess1.com Training Notes

  16. Research on Program Effectiveness

  17. The most significant finding is increased persistence.

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

  19. College Persistence Semester to Semester5 Year Average at Cuyamaca College • All successful PDC students 89% • All students 63% A 26% improvement!

  20. Lone Star College System Results

  21. Lone Star College System

  22. Who Are the New Millennial Generation?

  23. New Millennials • Our current college students were born after 1992. • Most were born with a computer in the home and were using them by age 5 • Cyber generation • The connected generation • 82% are online daily • Average 12 hours per week online

  24. Some Facts from Pew Research • They are generally happy with their lives and optimistic about the future • Unique appearance 54% have tattoos, hair dyed an unnatural color or body piercings other than ear lobes • Their top goals are fame and fortune

  25. Use Technology to Connect • 50% send or receive a text message daily • 29% use instant messages daily • 44% have a profile on Facebook or My Space and 38% use them daily

  26. These New Millennial students are now being called Generation E • What does the “E” stand for?

  27. New Millennials or Generation E • 18-30 years old • Empowered • Entitled • Electronic • Leading change from paper to electronic media

  28. Being in the Millennial Generation, I did start using computers as a young child. I learned how to spell with the help of computers and how to read with computerized books. Computers have always been a part of my life, which is probably why I am so drawn to them.Dawn Cardenas College Success Student

  29. Introduce yourself. Where are you in the technology continuum? • Baby boomer 1946-1964 • Generation X 1965-1977 • New Millennials 1977-1995 • How much technology did you use in college?

  30. What Comes Next? Hippies Yuppies Zippies

  31. Technology • Most college courses, especially upper division courses, have online components • Working in an online environment is essential for high paying careers • Students are disadvantaged if they do not have access to the Internet and are skilled in using it

  32. Rationale for Using Technology • It prepares students for good paying jobs in flat world • Improves retention and success • New roles for faculty • Your students use it • It captures their attention • Education any time or place

  33. A Quick Tour

  34. The Skills Checklist

  35. Log into your account • http://www.collegescope.com/lonestar

  36. Add a Student • Click on Search Students • Type in Student • Click on the Add to Me box next to Student, Sample

  37. Sample Student

  38. How Students Register and Log In • http://www.collegescope.com/ccs/odessa

  39. The difference between a faculty and student account • The student account has /ccs/ • ccsstands for college and career success • http://www.collegescope.com/ccs/lonestar

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