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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful Dialogue
Barbara Anderson, Pierce CollegeKenneth Bearden, Butte College Marybeth Buechner, Cosumnes River College Janet Fulks, Bakersfield CollegeSteve Reynolds, College of the SiskiyousAnthony Samad, East LA CollegeLinda Umbdenstock – Long Beach City College
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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful Dialogue
How do you develop dialogue on a campus? Are there ways to provide incentive for faculty
participation? What issues arise when dialoguing with faculty and
how do you respond to them? How do you initiate positive and productive program
dialogue to develop SLOs that everyone can agree to? Nuggets of wisdom What techniques that work and don’t work Tying program assessment to Program Review Mapping SLOs across programs
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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful Dialogue
“Excellent” chocolate? “Chocolaty” outcomes?Characteristics
assessed? Aroma Flavor Texture Satiety Nutritional value
Rubric creation
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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful Dialogue
Dialogue that is Inclusive Informed Ongoing Self-reflective Intentional
About Student learning Institutional quality/Effectiveness Systematic improvement
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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful Dialogue
Based on evidence and information that is Accurate and current Responsive Quantitative and qualitative
About Courses and course-level outcomes Programs and program-level outcomes Support Services and their outcomes And institutional outcomes
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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful Dialogue
Setting the Stage Academic Freedom Philosophy Statements Moderate the expectations What is already happening on your
campus?
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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful DialogueExamples
Barbara Anderson, Los Angeles Pierce College Using what we have
Pulling from Curriculum Documents Objectives or outcomes?
Meeting in a department with course syllabi asking What are we doing What do our students need? What could we be doing better? What are we doing well? Aligning course to outcomes
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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful DialogueExamples
Linda Umbdenstock – Long Beach City College
Summer projects w/workshops (departments/program)
Sharing the results on flex day 2 two-hour sessions 4-6 departments share each session Followed by hands on
Scholars’ Retreat
College-wide colloquium on Ed Master Plan goal
Use for documenting dialogue for Self-Study
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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful DialogueExamples
Kenneth Bearden – Butte College Embedding the discussion in existing committee
work Curriculum Review Program Review Unit Plans and Strategic Planning Chairs and Coordinators meetings Learning communities
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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful DialogueExamples
Dr. Anthony A. Samad – East L.A. College ELAC Academic Senate Set The Tone for a “faculty-
driven, ‘go slow’” approach Incorporated into Opening Day Agenda (in 2005 and again
this coming Fall, 2007) Have held two campus-wide faculty workshops Held an Open Academic Senate meeting to address faculty
concerns SLO Reports have a standing agenda position in the
Educational Plan Sub-Committee, Student Success Committee and Academic Senate meetings
Bi-weekly SLO committee meetings open to all faculty
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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful DialogueExamples
Steve Reynolds – College of the Siskiyous Integrating into current practices
Curriculum Development/Review Strategic Planning Program Review
Initiating into current practices Annual Planning Basic skills Faculty evaluation???????
Lessons learned (Pitfalls)
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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful DialogueExamples
Marybeth Buechner – Cosumnes College
Philosophy: Value what we currently do. Find the overlap between what we find most useful and what WASC wants.
Practices: Use course outlines as one way to align assessment with outcomes/objectives. Define programs based on common set of outcomes - including student services
Question: How do we document the dialogue?
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Practical Approaches to Doing the Dialogue
Lets Dialogue. Reassemble into groupsTalk about practical approaches you think will work on
your campus What types of dialogue are currently occurring? How will you promote dialogue at your college? Any other creative ideas you have heard to stimulate
dialogue? Any new ideas after hearing those shared today? How will you document this dialogue? What is WASC looking for in our dialogue and
documentation?Write your ideas on the flip charts to report out later.
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Practical Approaches to Doing the Dialogue
1. Lets Dialogue Conclusion
2. Groups will report out and as they do
Marybeth will model the use of a Venn Diagram to get a visual on how what we are already doing overlaps with WASC standards
Useful practices
WASC standards
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Some Not-so -Good Practices for Robust Dialogue
Don‘t say anything that devalues the expertise and abilities of your faculty - they have been and are doing this work
Don’t say “this will be a measuring stick for retaining faculty and programs
Don’t say “ If you fail to participate you will … Don’t let people with agendas monopolize the
discussion Don’t focus on only the positives (everyone will
have things that don’t work and sometimes you learn more from this)
Don’t talk about what you will do – focus on what you are doing
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Good Practices for Robust Dialogue Start with questions relevant to the group. Use local culture and organization as the rule of thumb. Make the dialogue meaningful and important to daily work
and . Make dialoging safe; develop assessment philosophies or
contracts. See the samples handed out. Be prepared to moderate personal agendas Be attuned to the language and ideas – clarify your campus
terminology; talk in ordinary English but connect it to WASC terminology.
Make it fun. Close the loop soon; share the positive outcomes campus-
wide. Use follow up questions.
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Barbara Anderson of Pierce College SLO philosophy statement10 reason's why we'll love working together
(or, the top 10 reasons you should love working with me!) ;) 1) I recognize that you’re the experts in your field. 2) I won’t waste your time. (Let’s keep it meaningful.) 3) I love your students. (Your student’s success should be the
focus of SLO creation.) 4) The process will (should) result in course and/or program
improvement. 5) I believe in academic freedom and I respect faculty. (SLOs
should be faculty driven.) 6) I see the value in the process. (“Failure” can be harnessed to
lead to success.) 7) I value “in the box” and “out of the box” thinking. (I believe in
using what we have as well as creating/discovering what we need.) 8) Two heads are better than one: I value teamwork and the power
of brainstorming. (Collegiality is invigorating!) 9) I’ll go the distance with you. (I’ll follow through with you on
the full cycle of assessment and beyond.) 10) Celebrating success should be part of the process! (I believe in
the power of laughter and I have a beer budget I’m willing to tap into.)
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Practical Approaches to Developing Useful Dialogue
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