Increasing Student Success by Integrating SLOs and Best

Practices

 Beth Patel                              Cara Statucki Kreit ESL/Basic Skills English            English Department College of Marin                         College of Marin  Link to our Wiki site:  http://bit.ly/Hdeghg

• Rationale • Overview of our college learning

outcomes  • Summary of our process• Website tour• Applications to other departments• Importance of professional learning

communities

 • ESL course alignment and Student Learning Outcomes

(SLOs)      

• SLOs and classroom practices

• College-wide learning outcomes   

• Inquiry Question: What instructional practices can we use to prepare basic skills students to successfully meet college-wide SLOs?   

  

Written Competency  2. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving3. Information Literacy4. Visual Communication5. Scientific Reasoning 

  

These SLOs reflect the core competencies required for students who complete the General Education program and serve as the SLOs for our GE program.

      

Rubrics:  http://bit.ly/HPeKta

Write proposal; solicit materials from teachers in the department

Collect current research, publications about new trends in the field and other schools, and conference materials

Align the materials collected with the five college learning outcomes

Create a Wiki site using the collected materials

Share resources within the college and beyond

• In your groups, look over the rubrics and talk about 1-2 activities that you use in your classroom that relate to one of the skills on the critical thinking rubric

• How can this type of work be applied to your own department?  Do you have similar methods for sharing resources?  Are they linked to course, program, or school-wide SLOs? 

Questions?  Contact:  

Beth Patel beth.patel@marin.edu or  

Cara Statucki Kreit cara.statucki@marin.edu    

Project was funded by the Basic Skills Initiative at College of Marin