Join the MCC Center for Teaching & Learning and Foundations for Student Success Monday, May 16 – Wednesday, May 18
Creating a dialogue among faculty and staff about practices and strategies that blur the boundaries between Academic departments and Student Affairs in order to create a comprehensive, supportive path for students.
mesa Schedule at a Glance: DAY 1
8:00AM9:30AM Welcome & Common Session
9:45AM12:00PM Concurrent Sessions
12:00PM1:50PM Lunch & Common Session
2:00PM3:00PM Concurrent Sessions
DAY 2
8:00AM9:15AM Welcome & Common Session
9:25AM11:50AM Concurrent Sessions
12:00PM1:00PM Lunch & Common Session
1:10PM3:00PM Concurrent Sessions
DAY 3
9:00AM10:00AM Concurrent Sessions
10:15AM11:15AM Concurrent Sessions
12:30PM1:30PM Concurrent Sessions
1:40PM3:00PM Concurrent Sessions
Common Sessions Location: Navajo Room Monday, May 16th
8:30am-9:30am Creating a Common Space to Serve Underserved Students Presenter: Dr. Deborah L. Harrington, Dean of Student Success, LA Community College District This interactive keynote will demonstrate how teams of faculty, staff, and administrators across California have participated in networked communities of practice designed to increase student access, success, equity, and completion, particularly amongst underserved populations. We will examine success stories of campus transformation, highlighting the role of networking and relationship building in institutional change. We will also look at the way that participating colleges in California have grown to serve as regional professional learning hubs, facilitating and sustaining engagement in research based practices for student success. During the presentation, audience participants will discuss ‘ideal’ initiatives for their respective programs/departments. Participants will also have an opportunity to outline next steps: how can the principles for transformation outlined in the keynote be put into practice at your college?
12:50pm-1:50pm Guided Pathways to Success and Student Support Programs and Services Presenters: Vivian Miranda, Carmen Newland, Karla Gonzalez, Rosina Wright and Marcus Chinn, MCC In this interactive session, participants will explore student support programs and services and examine the ways they might be integrated through Guided Pathways to Success. Session includes a poster session and guided conversation with student support programs and services from across the college.
Tuesday, May 17th
8:15am-9:15am Integrating Student Services into the Classroom Setting: A Student-Centered Approach Presenters: Amelia Rodriguez, Reading and Rosina Wright, Foundations for Student Success, MCC Embedding student support services into instruction is one way that we can increase student success in courses and contribute to student completion of degree goals. This session seeks to ensure that student support services become an integral part of student experiences in the classroom.
12:00pm-1:00pm Foundations for Student Success to Date and Aspirations for the Future Presenter: Matt Ashcraft, Dean of Institutional Effectiveness, MCC Your hard work has paid off! Come hear about the student success the FSS Grant has achieved to date and think about where we want to set our aspirations for future student success. Participate in an interactive review of external evaluation data and goal setting activity.
Monday, May 16th 9:45am-10-:45am Course reDesign Location: AS192 Presenter: Megan Garvy, MCC Competency-based course mapping provides a design framework to ensure learner accountability for course mastery. Develop modules for students to construct knowledge of major course concepts that is documented through assignments with competency-based learning outcomes. Consider the conceptual sequence, resources and experiences that will reflect a logical, accessible course plan.
Overcoming Communication Barriers: Strategies for Communicating with Students Effectively Location: AS191 Presenters: Joseph Swaba & Chris Mims, Communication, Gateway Community College Professor Mims and Swaba both have extensive experience on the student and academic support side of the student experience prior to taking on roles as residential faculty in the Communication discipline. In this interactive session we'll discuss and model the importance of communicating clear expectations to students while also communicating genuine support for their academic and personal success. Creating an environment that is both nurturing and academically stimulating is an important pedagogical goal, let's discuss how to get there together.
Small Group Stations Location: AS193 Presenter: Ashley Stich, MCC This session gives faculty members a chance to discover how a stations-based classroom grabs the attention of adult learners and effectively differentiates instruction. Participants will explore how stations can be used to provide active learning experiences within a variety of subject areas. This strategy can be put into place easily for test review or become a more integrated method of teaching.
Creating a Culture of Transfer Location: AS194 Presenter: Rosina Wright, MCC MCC students demonstrate high university transfer aspirations. As a campus, how can we encourage and sustain student aspirations? What practices can we adopt that will promote transfer and provide the support necessary for students to successfully transition to a 4-year college/university?
What do you teach? Learning outcomes outside of the classroom Location: AS195 Presenter: Julie Voller, MCCCD This session will make the case for adopting a student-learning approach within every college office, interaction, and activity. The facilitator will share resources for and examples of student learning outcomes for student affairs, academic support, and administrative areas. Participants will gain practice writing and mapping student learning outcomes for their own functional areas – identifying what they want students to learn, as well as how, and by when, students will learn it. Student learning outcomes demonstrate how work once thought to be purely transactional can truly be transformational.
Monday, May 16th 9:45am-10-:45am, Cont.’d Flipped Classroom Location: AS175 Presenter: Jennifer Strickland, MCC Discover what the Flipped Classroom is all about, why it has become so popular, what the benefits may be to you and your content, and how to get started and some best practices for starting our way!
Monday, May 16th 11:00am-12:00pm Instructional Scaffolds Location: AS192 Presenter: Megan Garvy, MCC Like scaffolds used in construction, effective instructional practices utilize techniques that offer support and guidance for students to make meaning out of new knowledge. Scaffolds are systematically integrated into lesson design and delivery for students to access prior knowledge while developing strategies to process and retain new information. Participants will experience lessons and activities that model techniques to embed instructional scaffolds for learning.
Civic Engagement Campfire Stories Location: AS194 Presenter: Duane Oaks, MCC Come learn about civic engagement and service-learning, and how MCC is supporting students and faculty. We will fill your backpack with ideas, resources and projects the College is involved in with the goal of helping individuals to become better citizens We will share how to apply for faculty and student mini grants, student scholarships for engagement, and ways you can become an engaged employee on campus and in our community!
What do you teach? Learning outcomes outside of the classroom Location: AS191 Presenter: Julie Voller, MCCCD This session will make the case for adopting a student-learning approach within every college office, interaction, and activity. The facilitator will share resources for and examples of student learning outcomes for student affairs, academic support, and administrative areas. Participants will gain practice writing and mapping student learning outcomes for their own functional areas – identifying what they want students to learn, as well as how, and by when, students will learn it. Student learning outcomes demonstrate how work once thought to be purely transactional can truly be transformational.
Adventures in Acceleration: The Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) at Mesa Community College Location: AS193 Presenter: Leanna Hall and Andrea Osteen, MCC This session will provide an overview of MCC's English ALP program, and discuss how it serves developmental students and the college, as indicated by data-driven evidence. Further, a student panel of former ALP students will respond to questions about their experiences in the program. Presenters will then explore possible plans for future growth, as well as some logistical challenges and solutions. Finally, participants will be asked to consider further applications of similar accelerated models.
Overcoming Communication Barriers: Strategies for Communicating with Students Effectively Location: AS195 Presenters: Joseph Swaba & Chris Mims, Communication, GCC Professor Mims and Swaba both have extensive experience on the student and academic support side of the student experience prior to taking on roles as residential faculty in the Communication discipline. In this interactive session we'll discuss and model the importance of communicating clear expectations to students while also communicating genuine support for their academic and personal success. Creating an environment that is both nurturing and academically stimulating is an important pedagogical goal, let's discuss how to get there together.
Classroom Assessment Techniques Location: AS175 Presenter: Jennifer Strickland, MCC Classroom Assessment Techniques (CATs) allow you and your students to gauge their comprehension of content or concepts. Discover the power of CATs, types of cats, and strategies for using them in your teaching and learning environments!
Monday, May 16th 2:00pm-3:00pm Emotional Intelligence Location: AS191 Presenter: Dwayne McIntosh, MCC Emotional Intelligence, what is it? And how does it impact my ability to be effective in the classroom? Come and find out!
Foundational Advising: A Holistic Approach to Retention Location: AS195 Presenter: Zhaowen Ruan, MCC This presentation will focus on the best practices of advising the students who tested into developmental level areas beyond enrolling in classes, including intrusive advising materials and college systems transparency.
When Your Roadmap Has No Street Names: Creating Research Assignments and Handouts for Student Success Location: AS193 Presenter: Elizabeth Simpson, MCC This presentation will focus on: Myths of the Digital Native (and how to get them back to basics), Information Literacy for your discipline, creating better instructional handouts to help your students navigate the research process, and suggestions for research projects beyond the research paper.
Guided Pathways to Student Success (GPS) from a Loss/Momentum Perspective Location: AS194 Presenter: Carmen Newland, MCC Using the GPS Framework, explore the student experience at MCC from a Loss / Momentum perspective. Students interact with MCC in numerous ways and each of these interactions can either boost a student's momentum towards completion or cause them to lose momentum and not complete. During this session, participants will identify loss / momentum opportunities within the areas they interact with students and discuss strategies to increase student success.
Monday, May 16th 2:00pm-3:00pm, Cont.’d Google Drive for Fun and Profit Location: AS175 Presenter: Jeff Anderson and James Bowles, MCC Are you looking for a convenient way to access a file on multiple devices without worrying about multiple versions? How would you like to share files with others to collaboratively edit as a group at the same time? How would you like unlimited storage? Google Drive will help you with all this and more! Now with 100% more compliance! Highlights of new MCC Action Team workflow will be included.
3-D Retention Strategies: Data, Development & Dialog Location: AS192 Presenter: Megan Garvy, MCC MCC offers the Student Readiness Survey to inform students and instructors about their preparedness (congnitive and noncognitive) for college courses. The Evaluation Toolkit offers information to instructors that may be used to inform instructional practice, curriculum and more. Explore the evolution of these tools and integrate practices to use this assessment data for acadmeic purposes and to maximize MCC's support services.
Tuesday, May 17th 9:25am-10:25am Student Involvement on Campus and Leadership Location: AS175 Presenter: David Perry, MCC How to help create student engagement and self-efficacy by getting students involved in leadership roles and involved in the larger college community.
When Your Roadmap Has No Street Names: Creating Research Assignments and Handouts for Student Success Location: AS192 Presenter: Elizabeth Simpson, MCC This presentation will focus on: Myths of the Digital Native (and how to get them back to basics), Information Literacy for your discipline, creating better instructional handouts to help your students navigate the research process, and suggestions for research projects beyond the research paper.
Facilitating Mathematical Discussions & Discourse – Part I Location: AS193 Special Guest Presenter: Dr. Erick Hofacker, University of Wisconsin Use ideas such as Number/Math Talks, Desmos Polygraph, Class Kick, Youcubed, and other various tasks that involve and promote rich mathematical discussions in the classroom.
Creating a Culture of Transfer Location: AS191 Presenter: Rosina Wright, MCC MCC students demonstrate high university transfer aspirations. As a campus, how can we encourage and sustain student aspirations? What practices can we adopt that will promote transfer and provide the support necessary for students to successfully transition to a 4-year college/university?
Tuesday, May 17th 10:35am-11:50am Academic Foundations Course Dialogue Location: AS175 Presenter: Melissa Carpenter and Ashley Stich, MCC This session invites participants to share their own strategies and techniques for engaging and supporting students. Participants will also be given resources and ideas for evaluating course materials and for helping all students experience success in college level courses. We will also discuss the ins and outs of the new Academic Foundations Course List being developed. Optional: Bring a textbook and/or other required reading materials from one of your courses.
Financial Aid Summer Camp Location: AS192 Presenter: Karla Gonzalez and Gayla Garcia, MCC A camp (session) providing staff and faculty with the necessary financial aid resources a student needs to successfully complete their educational goals. Overview of the financial aid process and how it affects your students both in and outside of the classroom. The impact grades and withdrawals have on completion. Financial resources and contacts available for students throughout the semester.
Send a Problem Location: AS191 Presenter: Janice Pierson, MCC Participate in a group activity called "send-a-problem� designed to focus on solving problems and evaluating solutions. Classroom management scenarios will be the focus of discussion. This activity can be used in the classroom to address difficult situations that do not have a single correct solution.
Facilitating Mathematical Discussions & Discourse – Part II Location: AS193 Special Guest Presenter: Dr. Erick Hofacker, University of Wisconsin Continuation of the topics from Part I.
Tuesday, May 17th 1:10pm-2:00pm Bonfires of Inspiration and Innovation: A Special Interest Group (SIG) Roundtable Location: AS192 Presenter: Alex Arreguin and Marcus Chinn, MCC In this session, participants are the presenters. Please bring any activity, lesson, program innovation, strategy, question, or event highlight that you use (or hope to use) to promote student success. This could include student success in a 1-on-1, classroom, program, or college-wide context. Each participant will have 8-10 minutes to share. If you would like to bring handouts or other materials, please prepare enough for 8 people.
Providing Students with the Tools They Need to Start and Sustain Their Own Campfire of Learning Location: AS191 Presenter: Marjorie Young, Diane Young and Rosina Wright, MCC Come to this session explore how to support students in obtaining successful reading/study skills in any discipline. The RDG100 series of courses was recently revised to be linked to disciplinary courses. Part of this session will be spent looking at how faculty can tap into what students learn in RDG100 to be more successful in any class.
Tuesday, Math 17th 1:10pm-2:00pm, Cont.’d Using Appropriate Tools and Manipulatives to Teach Mathematics through Multiple Representations Location: AS193 Special Guest Presenter: Dr. Erick Hofacker, University of Wisconsin Use algebra tiles, area model, diamond factor, double number lines, tape diagrams, integer tiles, pattern blocks, decimal grids, and other manipulatives that enable students to grasp a deeper understanding of basic mathematical concepts.
Formative Assessment: Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID) Location: AS175 Presenter: Janice Pierson, MCC Receiving feedback from students midsemester empowers Faculty to make tweaks to instruction and/or classroom management that can have a subtle yet profound impact on student learning. SGID is a formative assessment technique currently being piloted by Faculty at MCC. Learn about SGID and how it has assisted Faculty in building a supportive relationship with students.
Tuesday, May 17th 2:10pm-3:00pm The How and Why of Student Success Strategies: A Discussion of Chapter 5 of the Camp Book Location: AS192 Presenter: Paul Nunez and Marcus Chinn, MCC Faculty and staff will be asked to examine the ways that they might make the hidden “rules” of college more visible to students.
Path to Success for English Language Learners Location: AS191 Presenter: Lutfi Hussein, MCC The numbers of international students and language learners on campus have increased dramatically over the last several years. This growth has presented MCC not only with opportunities but also with challenges. This session offers an overview of the makeup of these students and their academic and professional needs, discusses ways of integrating these students in college life, and gives an update on institutional measures taking place to improve upon serving these students.
Making use of Mathematical Structure in Arithmetic and Algebra Location: AS193 Special Guest Presenter: Dr. Erick Hofacker, University of Wisconsin Use different arithmetic and algebra problems that make use of structure. Mindful computation and working slow to fast will be discussed.
Student Engagement and Interaction Location: AS175 Presenter: Megan Garvy, MCC Based on the Instructional Practices Inventory (IPI), this session will distinguish characteristics between disengagement and student-engaged instruction. Active learners are engaged with higher order learning. Authentic projects, cooperative work, hands-on learning and demonstration require instructional norms that promote participation through engagement. Integrate tools and resources to establish a cooperative, investigative learning environment.
Wednesday, May 18th 9:00am-10:00am OER101 Location: AS192 Presenter: Megan Garvy, MCC Open Educational Resources (OER), a part of the global open content movement, are shared teaching, learning, and research resources available under legally recognized open licenses -- free for people to reuse, revise, remix, and redistribute. Review the attributes of OER including sharing and quality considerations. Participants will explore available OERs and consider how to integrate OERs into classes in an effort to reduce or eliminate textbook costs.
Formative Assessment: Small Group Instructional Diagnosis (SGID) Location: AS175 Presenter: Janice Pierson, MCC Receiving feedback from students midsemester empowers Faculty to make tweaks to instruction and/or classroom management that can have a subtle yet profound impact on student learning. SGID is a formative assessment technique currently being piloted by Faculty at MCC. Learn about SGID and how it has assisted Faculty in building a supportive relationship with students.
Wednesday, May 18th 10:15am-11:15am Accessible Media Location: AS175 Presenter: Jeff Anderson, MCC Designing online content for users of all abilities is key in higher education and especially for MCC/Maricopa's vision for learning in a hybrid or online environment. This workshop will help instructors and course designers create content that can be accessed by learners who may depend on assistive technology to consume information via a desktop computer or have sight or hearing challenges.
Informative Assessment Location: AS192 Presenter: Megan Garvy, MCC Assessments for learning are intentional to guide instructional practice while a class is in progress. These assessments are integrated before, during and after instruction and are highly effective when the instructor and students engage with analyzing student success compared to a particular learning target. Instructors teaching the same course may develop common assessments to inform instruction and offer opportunities to collaborate and share resources. During this session, participants will shift their mindset to a culture of informed improvement in the classroom.
Wednesday, May 18th 12:30pm-1:30pm Exploring Universal Design for Learning Location: AS192 Presenter: Megan Garvy, MCC UDL is a framework for the design of materials and instructional methods that are usable by a wide range of students. The approach encourages flexible conditions that ensure access and participation by all students, without lowering expectations or standards. Explore techniques for creating classroom experiences that benefit all students without forcing them to self-identify a specific need. Examples include organizational tools, real world experiences, differentiation and authentic assessments.
Wednesday, May 18th 12:30pm-1:30pm, cont.’d Google Drive for Fun and Profit Location: AS175 Presenter: Jeff Anderson and James Bowles, MCC Are you looking for a convenient way to access a file on multiple devices without worrying about multiple versions? How would you like to share files with others to collaboratively edit as a group at the same time? How would you like unlimited storage? Google Drive will help you with all this and more! Now with 100% more compliance! Highlights of new MCC Action Team workflow will be included.
Wednesday, Math 18th 1:40pm-3:00pm New Canvas Updates Location: AS175 Presenter: Jeff Anderson and James Bowles, MCC Explore the new features and updates to our learning management system, Canvas. From a new user interface to turnitin changes- join us for a session dedicated to all things new in Canvas! This session is great for regular Canvas users and new users looking to review what Canvas has to offer. If you're teaching summer classes, you won't want to miss this session! (Note: This is not a new user getting started session).
Course reDesign Location: AS192 Presenter: Megan Garvy, MCC Competency-based course mapping provides a design framework to ensure learner accountability for course mastery. Develop modules for students to construct knowledge of major course concepts that is documented through assignments with competency-based learning outcomes. Consider the conceptual sequence, resources and experiences that will reflect a logical, accessible course plan.
The Foundations for Student Success is a Strengthening Institutions Program, Title III, Part A grant funded by the U.S. Department of Education. The $2,000,000 federal grant allocates $400,000 per year over a 5-year period from October 1, 2011, through September 30, 2016.