Pedagogy Matters

Upload pictures, photos and other images that depict your experience participating in the Pedagogy Matters! Jam from February 16-19, 2011

By Carl J. Jung (2005) in Journal of Developmental Education; 28.3 (2005): 2-11. Author's Abstract: The guiding premise of this article is that developmental education and learning assistance programs will continue to be undervalued and vulnerable as long as there is no overarching, shared theoretical framework that practitioners can (and want to) call their own. The traditional approach to addressing this theory crisis has been to import theories from outside the field. This article presents an alternative approach. Advantages and benefits of a practice-oriented approach are identified and briefly discussed. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library. This is a link to the TOC on the National Center for Developmental Education's website.

Posted to YouTube in September 2006.

Part of the Instructional Strategies: Contextualization discussion; the song was used in a lesson on calculating the number of minutes in the year. The answer is in the song lyrics.

Transcript from video Discounted Dreams

Mentioned by L.H. in Developing a Pedagogy Matters Manifesto. She includes this quote by Kay McClenney: "If we can't find ways to more effectively educate beyond the high school level, larger numbers of our population, including especially those that have traditionally been underserved, we as a country are going to sink like a rock. This is not the right time in our history to be saying, oh, we were only kidding about educational opportunity to low-income people, students of color, first generation college students. They're the future. They are the growing majority of the American population and we can't choose to close that door."

By Diana Laurillard, London Knowledge Lab, London Institute of Education, Inaugural professorial lecture, February 2008. From the abstract, Laurillard argues for "an education-driven approach to the use of digital technologies to achieve our ambitions for education."

By Michael W. Galbraith, and Melanie Jones in Journal of Developmental Education; 30.2 (2006): 20-27. Author's abstract: This article suggests that a balance of the art and science of teaching is essential if the learning and teaching process is to be a meaningful and rewarding educational journey. This notion is explored through a dialogue, held over a 3 year period, with a developmental mathematics instructor at a community college who discovered that technique alone was not sufficient to becoming a good instructor. An unusual situation occurred as a result of the dialogue: Discussion of research-based literature on college teaching and personal experiential reflectivity merged and resulted in an organizing framework for understanding the artistic and mechanic elements of effective instruction. Full text by subscription. Check with your local library. This is a link to the TOC on the National Center for Developmental Education's website.

By Diana D. Woolis and Gail O. Mellow. This page is the abstract for the book chapter on the Emerald website.

By Joe Sacco. New York: Metropolitan Books (2009). Story of a massacre in Rafah in 1956, a town at the bottommost tip of the Gaza Strip.

Shared in Pedagogy Cafe. One of several books selected by students in Prof. Helvie's College Reading Class.

A comprehensive evaluation of Achieving the Dream, a nationwide program designed to boost the academic success of community college students, reveals that overall trends in student outcomes at the first 26 institutions to join the project remained relatively unchanged after five years, even though the colleges adopted a wide range of strategies to improve them.

Excellent resource on e-portfolios. Faculty e-portfolios are a cornerstone of Global Skills for College Completion - a Gates Foundation funded project on improving pedagogy to increase student success (globalskillcc.org)

By Doug Lederman, April 4, 2011 Inside HigherEd The author discusses a new campaign by AFT Higher Education. The effort will have members of the American Federation of Teachers (represented by more than 200,000 college and university instructors, professional staff and graduate students) more directly involved in national and campus discussions on student success in higher education.

Direct link to the GSCC group resources.

on the California Community Colleges Success Network.

Mentioned in Putting It All Together. Includes guidelines and resources for acceleration in developmental education.

on the Testing Center, York College - The City University of New York. Five scoring categories: 1. "Critical Response to the Writing Task and Text" 2."Development of Writer's Ideas": 3. Structure of the Response" 4. "Language Use: Sentences and Word Choice" 5. "Language Use: Grammar, Usage, Mechanics"

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment as an assessment rubric used.

Practice Exercises for Students

CUNY Assessment Test of Writing - information for students. Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment

This program is offered by the Association of American Colleges & Universities, as part of its Liberal Education and America's Promise (LEAP) initiative, and is a contribution to the national dialogue on assessment in education.

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment

Results from a classroom research project focused on why author Katie Hern had only a 55% pass rate in three sections of her developmental English course.

Mentioned in Putting It All Together by author and Jam participant Katie Hern.

Smartroom Learning Solutions

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment

on movetoireland.com "The national curriculum requires all students to take an extensive series of examinations. Students must pass 6 exams to earn a Leaving Certificate at the end of high school. There are honours level, ordinary level, and foundation level exams."

Mentioned in Introduction to Formative Assessment illustrating interesting statistics

Professor Forrest Helvie, Norwalk Community College, Independent Reading Project

Author of this project mentioned in Pedagogy Cafe