Roz Spitzer, Niki Mantas, Liuba Boyko, Judi Wise from Bellingham Technical College

Five Powerful Principles to Transform Your Class

High Structure

High Challenge

Intensity

Intentionality and Learning How to Learn

Inquiry and Assessment

Rendezvous 2010 Yakima, Washington July 20, 2010

The Five Principles and How They are Changing Our Lives

High Structure High Challenge Intensity Intentionality and Learning How to

Learn Inquiry and Assessment to make

learning visible

Source: The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Basic Skills for Complex Lives: Designs for Learning in the Community College (2008)

What’s so powerful?

“The most promising innovations are shaped by an understanding that basic skills are not so basic, that even underprepared learners bring assets to their work. Basic skills must prepare students for complex lives.”

How did we get started?

A synergy of things happened: The budget cuts!!! Promises, promises… **Faculty Inspiration ** A great grant writer $$$ We got the FIPSE!!!(Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary

Education)

Original Faculty Inquiry Group (FIG): Roz Spitzer, Niki Mantas, Ruby Butterworth, Liuba Boyko, Judi Wise, Connie Daugherty, Marcia Leister, Paula Girouard

Key Components

Time & Money Commitment of Faculty Commitment of Administration Openness to new ideas Persistence

JIGSAW ACTIVITY: Creating Powerful Classrooms

Number Groups: LEARN YOUR PRINCIPLE!

Read the Carnegie Principle that correlates with the number on your color card.

Discuss strategies from reading and your own experience.

Be prepared to paraphrase the principle and share with others.

JIGSAW ACTIVITY: Creating Powerful Classrooms

Color Groups: TEACH YOUR PRINCIPLE Teach your principle to your color group

members. (Limit: 2 minutes each/10 minutes.)

Discuss/take notes on these strategies. Which strategies have you tried? Which would you like to try?

Prepare for whole group report. What’s the best idea that you have discovered today? Prepare to share: Principle(s), Title, Description.

JIGSAW ACTIVITY: Creating Powerful Classrooms

Whole Group: REPORT

Each color group reports to whole group one awesome activity that supports one of the five Carnegie Principles.

How are we transforming our classes at BTC?

ABE/GED

Metacognitive Reading Checklist

& Log

High StructureIntentionality and Learning How to Learn

Whatcom County Buses: Do They

Deserve an Increase?

(Math)

High StructureHigh Challenge

BTC Tuition Increase 2010-

2011 (Math)

IntensityHigh

Structure/Challenge

Critical Conversations: Basic Skills Students at the Table

(btcbasfig.wikispaces.com/community+connections)

High ChallengeIntensity

Inquiry and Assessment to Make Learning Visible

Intentionality and Learning How to Learn

How are we transforming our classes at BTC?

Math 50

Carnegie Learning Cognitive Tutor

High StructureIntensity

Intentionality & Learning How to

Learn

How are we transforming our classes at BTC?

ESL

Using Your Brain & Growing

Dendrites(Level 2-3)

High-ChallengeIntentionality & Learning How

to Learn

Where Am I Going?

(Level 4+)

High Challege

Intentionality &

Learning How to Learn

How to Paraphrase

Almost Anything(Level 4+)

High Challenge

How are we transforming our classes at BTC?

I-BEST

Hayley Has it Down(video)

Inquiry and Assessment to Make Learning

Visible

How Much Energy do you Use?

High ChallengeHigh Structure

Everyone needs a little inspiration…

Resources: http://btcbasfig.wikispaces.com/