Melanie Rocha BLENDED STUDENT SERVICES: Program Coordinator, First-Year Experience STREAMLINING HOW WE SUPPORT STUDENTS TODAY Kristen Seldon Director, Institutional Relations – Innovative Educators Rachel Veretto Assistant Director, First-Year Experience
INTRODUCTIONS • Melanie Rocha Program Coordinator, First-Year Experience – Aims Community College • Rachel Veretto Assistant Director, First-Year Experience – Aims Community College • Kristen Seldon Director, Institutional Relations – Innovative Educators
ROADMAP • Learning Outcomes Auction • Aims iFocus Academic Workshop Series • Blended Learning Experiences: Workshop & Classroom StudentLingo Demo • Discussion & Questions
LEARNING OUTCOMES AUCTION Can you buy academic success?
INSTITUTIONAL CONTEXT 2014-2015 Enrollment 37% 63% Part-Time Full-Time
iFOCUS ACADEMIC WORKSHOP SERIES @ Aims • Began in 2007 to help fill an academic programming need • Programming focuses on five themes: Academic Health & Wellness Multiculturalism Career & Transfer Technology
@ Aims • Summer 2013, Student Lingo adopted • Online workshop content areas: Academic & Career Exploration Reading & Writing Strategies Learning to Learn Online Learning Success Strategies
& PARTICIPATION Overall Participation by Academic Year 1000 900 Student Lingo Introduced Summer 2013 800 700 600 500 400 300 200 100 0 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 Summer Fall Spring
: THE BLENDED WORKSHOP
TURNING CONCEPTS INTO ACTION Each Video Workshop Exam Preparation & Test-Taking Strategies Sample Action Plan Includes An Action Plan Help your students turn their new knowledge into action with these custom action plans. Each plan is written to help turn a workshop full of information into a plan that any student can put into practice. Innovative Educators believe that knowledge alone is not true mastery, but empowering practice is the mark of effective and lasting learning.
: THE BLENDED CLASSROOM
: STRATEGIES LEARNED “I learned to set goals, “I learned that I need to “I really like having the workshops step out of my comfort intentionally work on online because English is my zone, and never settle on improving my self-awareness second language. Having the “just enough.” and relationship- workshops online with the ability to management competencies go back and re-watch parts that in order to boost my aren’t clear is helpful as I work to “I learned you have to emotional intelligence.” improve my study habits.” have a conversation with your textbook – write comments that help you “I learned if you manage “I learned the simple steps to engage with the material.” your time wisely you can make myself a better student at get a lot done in one day. Aims. I learned that having effective study habits can help I should trade time, not “What I learned the most is you need me get better grades…I also steal it – this helps me find to explore and ask questions. When I learned you need to plan ahead have some free time I am going to time for studying and and get your big projects done explore the campus and the different school activities .” first.” programs and study places we have.”
DISCUSSION & QUESTIONS Contact Information: Melanie Rocha Program Coordinator, First-Year Experience Kristen Seldon Aims Community College Director, Institutional Relations rachel.veretto@aims.edu Innovative Educators 303.955.0415 Rachel Veretto kristen@ieinfo.org Assistant Director, First-Year Experience Aims Community College rachel.veretto@aims.edu
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