Transcript High Impact Learning Experiences

High Impact Learning
Experiences
Departmental Supports &
Strategies
Barbara Decker Pierce
Director, School of Social Work
Learning Experiences
No Impact
High Impact
My experience tells me …
Planned
GRAND PLANS are useless:
“Life is what happens when
you are busy making other
plans”
Emergent
• Change is an emergent process
▫ Vision & opportunistic
actions & learning
• A critical mass of people who
see things in a new way … join
together and produce
innovative initiatives
Change as Bridge Building
• “When we commit to a vision to do something
that has never been done before, there is no way
to know how to get there. We simply have to
build the bridge as we walk on it …”
Robert E. Quinn
Vision
• As simple as having a picture in your mind and
the minds of others of the desirable future …
King’s: Vision Values & Learning
GOAL 1
To establish a community of engaged scholars
actively pursuing the acquisition, creation &
dissemination of knowledge
Objective 1.1
To create significant learning experiences for our
students
Opportunistic Actions
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Budget Creativity
Enabling Faculty/Others
Feedback
Classroom Changes
Innovation
GSA’s for TA’s
Experiments
Cheerleading – moral support
Budget Creativity
• Where will we get the money …
• Budget request – long shot
• Robbing Peter to pay Paul – reallocation
▫ Printing ($16K to $10K)
▫ Postage($4.5K to $1.5K)
▫ In year “adjustments”
• Revenue generating events
Enabling Faculty/Others
• Pick the low fruit … early adopters and those
who “get” the vision …
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Operational Support
Workload “adjustment”
Encouragement
Availability
Networking – make the connection
Hiring sessional faculty
Feedback
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SET’s
Mid Term Assessments
Program Level Feedback
Appreciative Enquiry
Feedback
• Think about a particular class you attended that
made you excited about learning and challenged
your thinking. It was exciting, productive,
effective and even fun. Describe this experience
and the qualities that made it so satisfying and
successful. What were the conditions that
allowed this to happen? What did you do to
make it so successful?
Classroom Changes
• Make the classroom setting work for you
▫ LH220
• Distance Classrooms – think outside the “BOX”
Innovation
• Encourage innovation … “approval”
• Look for ways to say yes …
▫ Ask for forgiveness not permission
• Example SW3302 and SW3319
GSA’s for TA’s
• Reallocation of resources for SW1021/22
• 12 fourth year TA’s replaced by 2 GSA’s
▫ Identify & keep current in-class resources (news
articles; websites; YouTube; Ted talks; innovations)
▫ In class support for small group exercises; peer tutor
▫ Role plays
▫ Generate exam multiple choice questions
• Reallocate funds to guest speakers; experiential
learning
Experiments
• Blended Learning
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Develop experience
Dean’s OK – test section
Evaluation plan
Presentation
• Blended Learning Sections
Cheerleading – Moral Support
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Encourage good ideas
Celebrate
Spread the Word
Challenge Learning
Overall – Administrative Role
• Remind
everyone of the
Vision
• A critical mass
of people who
see things in a
new way