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

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
• Technology for the New Millennial
Generation
• Engaging students in learning
Program Results
Program Review 2000, 2005
The most significant
finding is increased
persistence.
Persistence
• Students who return the next
semester
• Approximately half of community
college students nationwide do not
persist after the first semester
College Persistence Semester to Semester
5 Year Average
• All successful PDC students 89%
• All students 63%
• A 26% difference
Student Confidence
• The course helped 62% of
students feel more confident about
their academic skills
Student Satisfaction
88% of students rated the course as very good or good.
Grade Improvement
• 72% of student agreed or strongly
agreed that the course helped to
improve grades
College Success: A Study
of Positive and Negative
Attrition
Community College Review
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.
Resources for Faculty
http://www.cuyamaca.edu/collegesuccess
• Classroom exercises
• Syllabus
• Research
• PowerPoint
• Internet Links
Suggestions for Using the Text
Features
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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
College Success
• Motivation
• Time and Money
• Memory and Reading
• Test Taking
• Taking Notes, Writing and
Speaking
Career Success
• Personality and Related Majors
• Learning Style and Intelligence
• Interests and Values
• Career and Educational Planning
Lifelong Success
• Communication and Relationships
• Critical and Creative Thinking
• Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle
• Appreciating Diversity
• Positive Thinking
• Life Stages
Applied Psychology Course
• Theory and practical application
• Academic rigor
• Transferable to state universities
Bridge
High
School
Community
College
University
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
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
Key Themes
• Personality
• Learning Style
•Carl Jung and personality type
Online:
Key Theme
• Choosing a major
• Career choice
• Learning Style
• Communication
• Self-understanding
Carl Jung 1875-1961
• We are born with natural
preferences which we develop over
a lifetime.
• Exercise: What is a preference?
Resources
• Do What You Are Handbook
• Psychometric Report
Located at
www.cuyamaca.edu/collegesuccess
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.
Getting Good Results
• Encourage students to give honest
answers.
• What are some reasons students
would not give honest answers?
• Think, Pair, Share
Administering the DWYA
• The test does not measure:
• Intelligence
• Psychological or emotional health
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
Extravert or Introvert?
How we interact with the world and where we place our energy
E_____________________________|____________________________I
Extraversion
Introversion
Sensing or Intuitive?
The kind of information we naturally notice and remember
S_____________________________|___________________________N
Sensing
Intuition
By Ian Jackson
Personality Exercise
• Write about the picture for 5
minutes
Thinking or Feeling?
How we make decisions
T_____________________________|___________________________F
Thinking
Feeling
Judging or Perceptive
Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way
J_____________________________|_____________________________P
Judging
Perceiving
Exercise: Judging or Perceptive
• I can play anytime.
• I have to finish my work before
I play
The PEPS Learning Style
Assessment
• Measures preferences in 20 areas
• Perceptual
•Auditory
•Visual
•Kinesthetic
•Tactile
PEPS
• Immediate environment
• Sound
• Heat
• Light
• Design (formal or informal)
PEPS
• Emotionality
• Motivation
• Responsibility
• Persistence
• Structure
PEPS
• Sociological
• Self oriented
• Peer oriented
• Adult oriented
PEPS
• Physical
• Time of day
• Food intake
• Mobility
Using the Access Code
Reminders for Students
• The access code is on the inside
cover. You can only use the
access code once.
• Click on Register to begin.
• Write down the email address and
password you use to create your
account.
• After registering, click on Login to
begin.
Course Choices
• Face to Face
• 22 sections
• Blended
• 22 sections
• Online
• 12 sections
www.collegescope.com/cuyamaca
What is the most
important teaching
technique you use in your
college success course?
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