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

 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)

 “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.”

 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

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

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.

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.

Whole Group: REPORT  Each color group reports to whole group one awesome activity that supports one of the five Carnegie Principles.

ABE/GED Metacognitive Reading Checklist & Log High Structure Intentionality and Learning How to Learn Whatcom County Buses: Do They Deserve an Increase? (Math) High Structure High Challenge BTC Tuition Increase (Math) Intensity High Structure/Challenge Critical Conversations: Basic Skills Students at the Table (btcbasfig.wikispaces.com/ community+connections) High Challenge Intensity Inquiry and Assessment to Make Learning Visible Intentionality and Learning How to Learn

Math 50 Carnegie Learning Cognitive Tutor High Structure Intensity Intentionality & Learning How to Learn

ESL Using Your Brain & Growing Dendrites (Level 2-3) High-Challenge Intentionality & 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

I-BEST Hayley Has it Down (video) Inquiry and Assessment to Make Learning Visible How Much Energy do you Use? High Challenge High Structure

Resources: Developed with support from the Fund for Improvement of Secondary Education (FIPSE)