Integrated Reading & Writing
A National Perspective
Winds of change…
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IRW Redesign: Where is it going on?
GOAL = Student Success
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Dominant Redesign Models
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Accelerated Learning >
– Modularization
Contextualized Learning >
– Learning Communities
Emporium
Accelerated Learning model: What is it?
Best known applications are the CCBC (Community College of
Baltimore County) Acceleration Learning Program (ALP), directed
by Peter Adams, and the California Acceleration Project (CAP),
directed by Katie Hearn.
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ALP or Baltimore model
“ALP IS AN INNOVATIVE APPROACH…THAT ACCELERATES BASIC
WRITING STUDENTS THROUGH THEIR DEVELOPMENTAL WRITING
COURSE AND ENG 101 IN ONE SEMESTER. ALP BUILDS ON THE
STRENGTHS OF EARLIER APPROACHES SUCH AS MAINSTREAMING,
STUDIOS, LEARNING COMMUNITIES, AND BRIDGE PROGRAMS. IT
IS SHOWING GREAT PROMISE IN IMPROVING THE SUCCESS RATES
OF STUDENTS.”
This model, which can and is applied in IRW environments as well
as to basic writing/comp integration, is an example of what is
sometimes called a “fast-track, mainstreaming approach” to
accelerated learning, also being piloted in the Ivy Tech CC system
in Indiana and elsewhere, I’m sure.
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FROM the ALP Website, see Reference list
Critical Features of ALP
Students take their developmental writing course concurrently with the creditlevel writing course, rather than as a pre-requisite.
The same instructor teaches the ALP course and the credit course.
At least half the students in the credit English course are students who placed
into credit-level writing.
The ALP cohort is no more than 12 students.
ALP instructors recognize the importance of paying attention to the noncognitive issues affecting their students.
The pedagogy in the ALP course is based on “backward design” from the
credit course and emphasizes active learning, improved reasoning skills,
engaged reading, and more effective editing skills.
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The Accelerated Learning Program
The California Acceleration Project
“The California Acceleration Project
stresses that we can’t keep attributing
this problem to students’ low skills or low
motivation. Instead, we must examine
our curricular sequences themselves.
Project leaders Katie Hern and Myra Snell
make the case that high attrition rates
are structurally guaranteed in multisemester developmental sequences. The
more “exit points” where students can fall
away by not passing or not enrolling in
the next course, the smaller the number
of students who will complete the final
course.”
~ The California Acceleration Project:
“Why Acceleration?”
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Chabot College Las Positas
Citrus
American River
Butte
Gavilano
Imperial Valley
Los Angeles
Trade Tech
San Diego City San Diego
College
Mesa
In addition, the California
Acceleration Project is supporting the
development of similar pilots in
Hawaii, Arkansas, Colorado and
Maryland.
Modularization: What is it?
“Course modularization offers institutions a way to accommodate
“partial” learning by letting students study only what they don’t
know and make more rapid progress.”
~ NCAT, “Six Innovative Course Redesign Practices,”
www.thencat.org
•Students
study only the competencies over which they have not
yet shown mastery.
•Multiple
exit points.
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Modularization: Where is it?
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University of Southern Mississippi (Literature)
Tallahassee CC (Composition)
North Carolina CC system (IRW)
Cleveland CC (IRW)
Columbia State CC, TN (IRW)
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Contextualized Teaching & Learning (CTL):
What is it?
CTL is a “conception of teaching and learning that
helps teachers relate subject matter content to real world
situations” (Berns & Erickson, 2001, p. 2).
Chris Mazzeo (2008) broadened the definition, describing CTL as a
“diverse family of instructional strategies designed to more
seamlessly link the learning of foundational skills and academic or
occupational content by focusing teaching and learning squarely on
concrete applications in a specific context that is of interest
to the student” (p. 4).
**Often pairs w/ Learning Communities/Paired Course model
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Learning Communities/Paired Course model
“What kind of learning environments will both support and
challenge students so more of them can meet our “greater
expectations” while realizing their own? Learning communities are
one response.”
~ “The Pedagogy of Possibilities: Developmental Education,
College-Level Studies, and Learning Communities”
What is the “community”?
• Student community
• Collaborative instruction
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Coursework is often structured by instructional strategies
described as active learning, student interaction and engagement
models.
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Contextualized Teaching & Learning (CTL)
Learning Communities model: Where is it?
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City College of San Francisco: Skills + Biotech
Pierce College (WA): Skills + Vocational
College of San Mateo: Skills + Service Learning
CC of Denver: Skills + Career Exploration
Cabrillo College (CA): Skills + Social Justice
Chabot College (CA): Basic Writing + African-American Studies
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Emporium model: What is it?
In the emporium instructional model, students spend much* of
their class time in a computer lab setting and they receive
individualized instruction from faculty as they engage with
technology-based programs.
**Sometimes ALL of their time is spent in the lab setting,
eliminating classes altogether.
Often paired with the Modular model for Accelerated Learning, the
goal is to allow students to proceed through the content quickly
with extensive individualized support and minimal, or no, class
time.
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Emporium model: Where is it?
In Math ;)
(but also being piloted at Northeast State Technical College in
Tennessee for IRW)
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Professional Development Resources
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Pearson Course Redesign resource site:
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/courseredesign
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English Instructor Exchange.com
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The Speaking About conference series:
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/speakingabout/
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Thank you!
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