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THE CENTER FOR TEACHING & LEARNING EXCELLENCE
AT HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Faculty Excellence Equals Student Success
hccs.edu/ctle
HCC Center for TLE is a unit of the Department of Teaching & Learning Resources.
HCC CENTER for TLE
TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching
for Student Success
Created and facilitated by
Dr. David E. Diehl
This workshop is required for all Center for TLE programs.
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Purpose
•To engage in self-reflection concerning your underlying beliefs, values,
assumptions, and attitudes about issues related to teaching and
learning.
•To consider your educational points-of-view in light of learnercentered teaching strategies and learning methods.
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Learning Outcomes
•Classify attributes between two major educational paradigms
•Compare and contrast major learning theories
•Synthesize personal thoughts concerning issues of teaching and
learning
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Learning Objectives
•Complete and consider the results of philosophies of education and
learning styles surveys
•Organize thoughts concerning concepts reviewed respective to
teaching approaches and how people learn
•Write personal philosophy of education
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Agenda
•Instructional Alignment with HCC Strategic Plan 2008-2011
•Pre-workshop Prep Tasks
•Getting into context: Awareness of Oneself
•Paradigms of Teaching
•Philosophy of Education
•Major Categories of Educational Philosophies
•Important Educational Philosophies
•Primary Methods and Styles of Learning
•Multiple Intelligences
•Higher-order Learning and Thinking Skills/Bloom’s Taxonomy
•Models of Teaching
•Attributes of Educational Philosophies/Theories Chart
•Benchmarks of Effective Educational Practice
•Educational Strategies That Work
•Teaching Strategies That Result in Higher Levels of Learning Retention
•What Does Your Learning Environment Look Like?
•The Value of a Teacher
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Instructional Alignment with
HCC Strategic Plan 2008-2011
HCC Vision
Our vision calls for Houston Community College to become the nation’s most
relevant community college by being the institution providing unlimited
opportunity to those we serve. This path will ensure we are essential to our
community’s success.
HCC Mission
Houston Community College is an open-admission, public institution of higher education
offering a high-quality, affordable education for academic advancement, workforce
training, career development, and lifelong learning to prepare individuals in our diverse
communities for life and work in a global and
technological society.
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HCC Values
Freedom: The essence of education is the cultivation of an open environment that
promotes a rigorous, untiring life-long pursuit and expression of truth and free exchange of
ideas.
Accountability: A responsible individual is committed to doing one’s duty and taking the
right actions.
Community-Mindedness: The bonds of our community are care, open communication,
cooperation, and shared governance.
Integrity: Personal and community well-being demands a commitment to honesty, mutual
respect, fairness, empathy and doing the right thing at all times.
Excellence: Our will and spirit are to achieve the best in teaching, learning, community
building, and stewardship.
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HCC Goals
Through an exhaustive, highly inclusive strategic planning process which utilized cutting
edge research methodologies, the District’s leadership identified six key goals that are
the cornerstone of the plan to achieve the vision articulated for HCC.
1. Student Learning
2. Effective Leadership
3. Resource Development and Enhancement
4. Global Perspective
5. Effective Communication
6. Accountability and Strategic Decision-making
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HCC Goal: Student Learning
This workshop is the core of many faculty development opportunities that seeks to have
the greatest impact possible upon student learning.
From HCC Strategic Plan 2008-2011:
“Helping students achieve their fullest potential requires an institution’s commitment to
support them in reaching their educational and career goals.
HCC, an Achieving the Dream college, will continue to invest significant time and
resources toward improving student learning.
Through innovative methods of
course delivery, teaching practices, and support services, our students will progress
through their education, career and personal goals as we provide
the support leading to student learning.”
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HCC Student Performance Outcomes
In working to become the most relevant community college in the country, HCC will
provide opportunity for every student we serve, and thus, be essential to
our community’s success. As it relates to student success, this intention translates into
achieving the following student-related outcomes:
• Helping students succeed through innovative methods of course delivery
and teaching practices.
• Supporting students as they progress through their educational programs.
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HCC Student Learning Strategies
HCC District faculty development programs are aligned with the two following student
learning strategies:
• Support faculty and student programs and activities in pursuit and achievement
of teaching and learning excellence.
• Institutionalize the Achieving the Dream strategies to improve rates of student
persistence and successful completion of courses and programs.
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HCC Measurement: Student Engagement
As HCC works to achieve its vision, the institution utilizes several critical indicators to measure the plan of action
and chart progress. Institutional targets are defined on an annual basis in order to report on each of the six goal
areas to achieve our vision: student learning, effective leadership, resource development and engagement, global
perspective, effective communication, and accountability and strategic decision-making. An indicator for student
success specifically related to teaching and learning is student engagement as defined by the Community College
Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) educational research organization
1. Academic challenge
2. Active and collaborative learning
3. Faculty-student interaction
4. Support for learning
5. Student effort.
Other indicators (see page 32 of HCC Strategic Plan 2008-2011) are: enrollment, retention rates, transfer rates,
and job placement rates. The curriculum for each program sponsored by HCC Center for TLE focuses on preparing
faculty to effectively integrate CCSSE’s effective educational practices into a learner-centered teaching
environment.
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Pre-workshop Prep Tasks:
1. Complete the Four Families Philosophy Survey, submit your
replies and print the results. You will interpret the data
during the workshop.
http://www.uwsp.edu/education/lwilson/LearningObjects/LO1/quiz.htm
2. Complete the Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire, submit
your replies and print the results. You will interpret the data
during the workshop.
http://www.engr.ncsu.edu/learningstyles/ilsweb.html
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Awareness of Oneself
Passage from: The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
“Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one’s inwardness,
for better or worse.
As I teach, I project the conditions of my soul onto my students,
my subject, and our way of being together.
The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often
no more or no less than the convulsions of my inner life.
Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the end of my soul.
If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain
self-knowledge – and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching
as knowing my students and my subject.
In fact, knowing my students and knowing my subject depends heavily on self-knowledge.
When I do not know myself, I cannot know who my students are. I will see them through a glass darkly, in the shadows of my own unexamined life; and when I cannot see them clearly,
I cannot teach them well.”
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Resource Worthy of Your Investment and Time
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner
Landscape of a Teacher's Life
Parker J. Palmer
ISBN: 0-7879-1058-9
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READING ASSIGNMENT:
From the learning handbook, read section entitled Paradigms of
Teaching: Pedagogy and Andragogy on pages 3 – 4.
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Paradigms of Teaching
Pedagogy
the “art” and “science” of teaching”
Andragogy
adult learning
Review the article Pedagogy + Andragogy, by Marcia L. Conner, found in the Supportive
Resources section of this course.
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READING ASSIGNMENT:
From the learning handbook, read section entitled Philosophy of
Education on pages 4 – 5.
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What is a philosophy?
One’s underlying thoughts and feelings about matters and people
including one’s…
Beliefs
Values
Assumptions
Attitudes
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What is an educational philosophy?
One’s underlying thoughts and feelings about matters of teaching and
learning including:
Beliefs
Values
Assumptions
Attitudes
A philosophy of education is a statement concerning all sorts of matters
connected to teaching and learning.
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What is the purpose of an educational philosophy?
The purpose of a philosophy of education (teaching and learning statement)
is to:
Guide the educational process
Determine decisions made about curriculum development
Establish an appropriate learning (classroom) environment
Ensure alignment with the curriculum
Provide benchmarks for practice and performance
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Questions to consider when developing a framework
for one’s philosophy of education?
What is education?
What is the purpose of education?
What is the role of the student in education?
…teacher in education?
…curriculum in education?
…parents in education?
…community in education?
…technology in education?
How do people learn?
What content and skills should be taught?
How should the content and skills be taught?
How
should learning be measured?
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What is Your Personal Philosophy of Education?
Identify underlying beliefs, values, assumptions, and attitudes
about teaching and learning that causes you to make curriculum
design decisions related to the:
Learning environment you create for students
Teaching strategies you use to deliver content to students
Learning tasks that you select to engage students
Assessment methods to ensure mastery of content
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Review the PowerPoint, handbook, and
supportive resources for this section.
Complete the Check Your Knowledge quiz.