GlobalSkillsCC

Description of the VALUE Rubrics, designed by the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U).

iRubric is a tool that helps faculty design rubrics for assessment. This tool is part of the Rcampus suite of opensource tools.

From the Hunter College Reading/Writing Center for the CUNY/ACT Basic Skills Tests, this rubric directs those who are grading the (New York City) city-wide exam.

JEC says that faculty must attend an 8-hour training session to learn to grade these exams -- and not all pass in the first session.

Published by Capital Community College, Hartford, CT. Various resources to help students learn more about grammar and writing.

By Andrea Fuller in the Government section of The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 20, 2010. At North Virginia Community College, President Obama signs legislation that ends the bank-based lending system for student loans. The savings from ending this program will be used to provide spending on education. The president also announces that Jill Biden will lead a community-college summit at the White House in the fall.

Youtube video. Advancing K-12 Technology Leadership, Consortium for School Networking(COSN)

by David Glenn in The Faculty Section, The Chronicle of Higher Education, February 5, 2010. See page 12. Jamie P. Merisotis, president of Lumina Foundation for Education gives the plenary at the annual conference of the Association of American Colleges and Universities in January 2010.

From PA: "According to the Chronicle, he (Jamie Merisotis) addressed this very issue of 'quality'"

From C-SPAN, March 30, 2010. Speech was given at the Alexandria, VA., campus of Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC). The President is introduced by Dr. Jill Biden, wife of the Vice-President, and an instructor at NVCC. The President announced that Dr. Biden will host a national summit on community colleges at the White House this fall (see approx 18:10 on the video).

A GSCC connection - NH (GSCC instructor) also teaches at NVCC and was present for the visit. From her comments: "Jill Biden introduced him and some of her developmental English students were sitting behind me. When the President explained the changes in Pell Grants, they stood and shouted "Thank You." I was really moved because I am sure these grants will make a big difference for them in the future."

Edited by Patrick Sullivan and Howard B. Tinberg, published by the National Council of Teachers of English, 2006.

JEC recommends a shared definition of basic writing, and that this book might help to start that discussion.

By Scott Jaschik, in Inside Higher Ed, March 18, 2010. This article the discussion of how to improve master's programs to better train community college writing instructors. It was held at the recent Conference on College Composition and Communication.

Foothill College (a GSCC school) offers the innovative and award-winning Math My Way program. From the description, Math My Way offers "a hands-on series of self-paced math learning modules that combine patient, caring, understanding instruction with a group of students who have similar math skill levels."

KP, a GSCC faculty member, is part of the Math My Way team. On March 12, 2010, she posted that the team would be meeting with Bill Gates in April.

By Heather C. Hill, Brian Rowan, and Deborah Loewenberg Ball, published in American Educational Research Journal, Vol 42 (2), pp. 371-406, summer 2005.

PA links to this article in Coffee Klatch and notes that Ball (et al) propose that effective teaching must be approached discipline by discipline (she works in math).

Article in the New York Times by Elizabeth Green.

By Doug Lemov, published by Jossey-Bass 2010. Lemov was featured in the New York Times article, Building a Better Teacher, March 2, 2010. See lemov tag for the article.

This is an Education Week Leadership Forum taking place in Chicago on April 7, 2010. Brenda has noted the takeaways: Keys to building consistent data best practices at every school; New ways to leverage data you're already collecting; Techniques to keep district and school data users focused on achievement.

By Paul Basken, in the Government section, Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb 21, 2010. President Obama's education agenda "seeks to inject more accountability into higher education through smarter use of data." This article is available by subscription. To access full text, check with your local library.

MZ has posted the full text (as PDF) in her Coffee Klatch post of Feb 22, 2010.

By David Glenn in the Teaching section, Chronicle of Higher Education, Feb 7, 2010. This is an article about new research from the CUNY Graduate Center that looks at "self-regulated learning." With this method, math students work with their instructors to analyze their errors, reworking problems to be sure that they understand how to solve them next time. The article is available by subscription. For the full text, check with your local library.

KS posted a PDF of the article (see her 2/12/10 Coffee Klatch posting for the link).

A strategy presented by On Course workshop. On Course offers a variety of recommended techniques, carefully organized (e.g. "Student Success Strategies." On Course also offers a monthly newsletter.

GIMP is open source image manipulation software.

JEC uses this tool to hide student names in scanned documents.

Tutorials for GIMP image manipulation software.