1. Faculty Excellence Equals Student Success
THE CENTER FOR TEACHING & LEARNING EXCELLENCE AT HOUSTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE
Faculty Excellence Equals Student Success
hccs.edu/ctle
HCC Center for TLE is a unit of the Department of Teaching & Learning Resources.
Welcome to Houston Community College Center for Teaching and Learning Excellence.
As part of the Division of Instruction at HCC District, the Center for TLE sponsors numerous faculty development programs in support of enhancing faculty knowledge and skills in teaching strategies and learning methods.
These programs consist of various workshops focused on important educational practices that contemporary research has proven to be effective in teaching today’s students. These programs are offered district-wide at various HCC campuses and are free to all HCC faculty, both part- and full-time.
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2. HCC CENTER for TLE
TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
Created and facilitated by
Dr. David E. Diehl
This workshop is required for all Center for TLE programs.
The workshop in which you are about to engage contains core information that serves as the foundation for the entire faculty development curriculum sponsored by HCC Center for TLE.
I’m David Diehl, and I will be here to guide you through the content of TL1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success.
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3. HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
Purpose
To engage in self-reflection concerning your underlying beliefs, values, assumptions, and attitudes about issues related to teaching and learning.
To consider your educational points-of-view in light of learner-centered teaching strategies and learning methods.
The purpose of this workshop is two-fold.
First to engage in self-reflection concerning your underlying beliefs, values, assumptions, and attitudes about issues related to teaching and learning. As you self-reflect, you will be asked to consider your educational points-of-view in light of learner-centered teaching strategies and learning methods.
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4. HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
Learning Outcomes
Classify attributes between two major educational paradigms
Compare and contrast major learning theories
Synthesize personal thoughts concerning issues of teaching and learning
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5. HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
Learning Objectives
Complete and consider the results of philosophies of education and learning styles surveys
Organize thoughts concerning concepts reviewed respective to teaching approaches and how people learn
Write personal philosophy of education

6. HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
Agenda
Instructional Alignment with HCC Strategic Plan
Pre-workshop Prep Tasks
Getting into context: Awareness of Oneself
Paradigms of Teaching
Philosophy of Education
Major Categories of Educational Philosophies
Important Educational Philosophies
Primary Methods and Styles of Learning
Multiple Intelligences
Higher-order Learning and Thinking Skills/Bloom’s Taxonomy
Models of Teaching
Attributes of Educational Philosophies/Theories Chart
Benchmarks of Effective Educational Practice
Educational Strategies That Work
Teaching Strategies That Result in Higher Levels of Learning Retention
What Does Your Learning Environment Look Like?
The Value of a Teacher

7. Instructional Alignment with HCC Strategic Plan 2008-2011
HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
Instructional Alignment with HCC Strategic Plan
HCC Vision
Our vision calls for Houston Community College to become the nation’s most relevant community college by being the institution providing unlimited opportunity to those we serve. This path will ensure we are essential to our community’s success.
HCC Mission
Since this workshop is meant to be the first workshop for each Center for TLE program, it is important to highlight how the Center’s work aligns with HCC’s Strategic Plan. More particularly, how instruction supports fulfilling the institution’s mission and achieving it vision.
The Center’s work is focused on faculty development that results in having the greatest, most positive impact upon student success, thus, the Center’s slogan: Faculty Excellence Equals Student Success.
Please take just a brief review the next few slides and notice each reference (direct or indirect) to student’s academic achievement, student success, student learning, student persistence, program completion, etc.
Houston Community College is an open-admission, public institution of higher education offering a high-quality, affordable education for academic advancement, workforce training, career development, and lifelong learning to prepare individuals in our diverse communities for life and work in a global and
technological society.

8. HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
HCC Values
Freedom: The essence of education is the cultivation of an open environment that promotes a rigorous, untiring life-long pursuit and expression of truth and free exchange of ideas.
Accountability: A responsible individual is committed to doing one’s duty and taking the right actions.
Community-Mindedness: The bonds of our community are care, open communication, cooperation, and shared governance.
Integrity: Personal and community well-being demands a commitment to honesty, mutual respect, fairness, empathy and doing the right thing at all times.
Excellence: Our will and spirit are to achieve the best in teaching, learning, community building, and stewardship.

9. HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
HCC Goals
Through an exhaustive, highly inclusive strategic planning process which utilized cutting edge research methodologies, the District’s leadership identified six key goals that are the cornerstone of the plan to achieve the vision articulated for HCC.
1. Student Learning
2. Effective Leadership
3. Resource Development and Enhancement
4. Global Perspective
5. Effective Communication
6. Accountability and Strategic Decision-making

10. HCC Goal: Student Learning
HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
HCC Goal: Student Learning
This workshop is the core of many faculty development opportunities that seeks to have the greatest impact possible upon student learning.
From HCC Strategic Plan :
“Helping students achieve their fullest potential requires an institution’s commitment to support them in reaching their educational and career goals.
HCC, an Achieving the Dream college, will continue to invest significant time and resources toward improving student learning.
Through innovative methods of
course delivery, teaching practices, and support services, our students will progress through their education, career and personal goals as we provide
the support leading to student learning.”

11. HCC Student Performance Outcomes
HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
HCC Student Performance Outcomes
In working to become the most relevant community college in the country, HCC will provide opportunity for every student we serve, and thus, be essential to
our community’s success. As it relates to student success, this intention translates into achieving the following student-related outcomes:
• Helping students succeed through innovative methods of course delivery and teaching practices.
• Supporting students as they progress through their educational programs.

12. HCC Student Learning Strategies
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HCC Student Learning Strategies
HCC District faculty development programs are aligned with the two following student learning strategies:
Support faculty and student programs and activities in pursuit and achievement of teaching and learning excellence.
• Institutionalize the Achieving the Dream strategies to improve rates of student persistence and successful completion of courses and programs.

13. HCC Measurement: Student Engagement
HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
HCC Measurement: Student Engagement
As HCC works to achieve its vision, the institution utilizes several critical indicators to measure the plan of action and chart progress. Institutional targets are defined on an annual basis in order to report on each of the six goal areas to achieve our vision: student learning, effective leadership, resource development and engagement, global perspective, effective communication, and accountability and strategic decision-making. An indicator for student success specifically related to teaching and learning is student engagement as defined by the Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) educational research organization
Academic challenge
Active and collaborative learning
Faculty-student interaction
Support for learning
Student effort.
Other indicators (see page 32 of HCC Strategic Plan ) are: enrollment, retention rates, transfer rates, and job placement rates. The curriculum for each program sponsored by HCC Center for TLE focuses on preparing faculty to effectively integrate CCSSE’s effective educational practices into a learner-centered teaching environment.

14. Pre-workshop Prep Tasks:
HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
Pre-workshop Prep Tasks:
Complete the Four Families Philosophy Survey, submit your replies and print the results. You will interpret the data during the workshop.
2. Complete the Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire, submit your replies and print the results. You will interpret the data during the workshop.
If you haven’t already, please take the time to complete the two surveys noted on this slide. The links should work by simply clicking them, but if they don’t simply copy and paste them into a new browser.
Be certain to complete each item on each survey. For each survey, be certain to submit your work in order to receive a response reflecting your score. Please be certain to print out the score as you will interpret that data later in this presentation.
Also, please review the questions on page one of the learning handbook. At the end of the presentation, you will be required to take a short quiz, and you must achieve 100% in order to receive credit for workshop.
Throughout the presentation, use the review questions to assist in collecting the information needed for the quiz. This will help you answer the quiz questions correctly.

15. HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
 Awareness of Oneself
Passage from: The Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
“Teaching, like any truly human activity, emerges from one’s inwardness, for better or worse.
As I teach, I project the conditions of my soul onto my students, my subject, and our way of being together.
The entanglements I experience in the classroom are often no more or no less than the convulsions of my inner life.
Viewed from this angle, teaching holds a mirror to the end of my soul.
If I am willing to look in that mirror and not run from what I see, I have a chance to gain self-knowledge – and knowing myself is as crucial to good teaching as knowing my students and my subject.
In fact, knowing my students and knowing my subject depends heavily on self-knowledge.
When I do not know myself, I cannot know who my students are. I will see them through a glass - darkly, in the shadows of my own unexamined life; and when I cannot see them clearly, I cannot teach them well.”
Okay. Now that we have set the stage to work through the content of this online workshop, it is time to do a brief moment of self-reflection.
Please read through this passage from the text of “Courage to Teach” by Parker Palmer. As you do, identify what thought or thoughts within the passage caught your attention. Think about “Why” the phrase or phrases meant something to you.?
When you are satisfied with your what you have achieved, please move forward.

16. Resource Worthy of Your Investment and Time
HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
Resource Worthy of Your Investment and Time
The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher's Life Parker J. Palmer ISBN:

17. HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
READING ASSIGNMENT:
From the learning handbook, read section entitled Paradigms of Teaching: Pedagogy and Andragogy on pages 3 – 4.

18. Paradigms of Teaching Pedagogy Andragogy
HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
Paradigms of Teaching
Pedagogy
the “art” and “science” of teaching”
Andragogy
adult learning
Review the article Pedagogy + Andragogy, by Marcia L. Conner, found in the Supportive Resources section of this course.
There are two paradigms of teaching that influence today’s learning environments. The first is focused on the term pedagogy, and the second on the term andragogy. Within the Teacher Education Program profession, we use the term pedagogy to mean “the art and science of teaching,” thus; we use it in its broadest terms believing that this is the most appropriate use of the term within today’s learning environment.
Yet, there are others who simply align the term with more traditional teacher-centered versus learner-centered teaching. And yet again, there are others who use the term as it was used in its origination, meaning to teach children. This group usually argues their position in contrast to the term andragogy, meaning adult learning.
I usually leave it to the educator to determine their point-of-view when it comes to how to apply the term pedagogy. As for me, I am going to stay with the general use of the term: the art and science of teaching.
To begin developing a better understanding the use of these terms, you may want to take a few minutes to review the article by Marcia L. Conner. That article can be found within the resources of the online workshop.

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READING ASSIGNMENT:
From the learning handbook, read section entitled Philosophy of Education on pages 4 – 5.

20. HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
What is a philosophy?
One’s underlying thoughts and feelings about matters and people including one’s…
Beliefs
Values
Assumptions
Attitudes

21. What is an educational philosophy?
HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
What is an educational philosophy?
One’s underlying thoughts and feelings about matters of teaching and learning including:
Beliefs
Values
Assumptions
Attitudes
A philosophy of education is a statement concerning all sorts of matters connected to teaching and learning.

22. What is the purpose of an educational philosophy?
HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
What is the purpose of an educational philosophy?
The purpose of a philosophy of education (teaching and learning statement) is to:
Guide the educational process
Determine decisions made about curriculum development
Establish an appropriate learning (classroom) environment
Ensure alignment with the curriculum
Provide benchmarks for practice and performance

23. HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
Questions to consider when developing a framework for one’s philosophy of education?
What is education?
What is the purpose of education?
What is the role of the student in education?
…teacher in education?
…curriculum in education?
…parents in education?
…community in education?
…technology in education?
How do people learn?
What content and skills should be taught?
How should the content and skills be taught?
How should learning be measured?

24. What is Your Personal Philosophy of Education?
HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
What is Your Personal Philosophy of Education?
Identify underlying beliefs, values, assumptions, and attitudes
about teaching and learning that causes you to make curriculum
design decisions related to the:
Learning environment you create for students
Teaching strategies you use to deliver content to students
Learning tasks that you select to engage students
Assessment methods to ensure mastery of content
Over the many years of working with higher education faculty in developing their teaching knowledge and skills, I’ve discovered that most have not taken the time to articulate their personal philosophy of education?
So I want for you to take a moment to think about your beliefs, values, assumptions, and attitudes about matters of teaching and learning.
As you do, realize that these adopted beliefs, values, assumptions and attitudes determine decisions you make about the various educational components, such as the learning environment your create for your students; about teaching strategies that you select to deliver content; about learning tasks that you select to reinforce learning, and what assessment methods you select to ensure your students acquire mastery over the content.
Later in the workshop you will be asked to write your philosophy of education.

25. Complete the Check Your Knowledge quiz.
HCC CENTER for TLE TL 1071 – Implementing Learner-centered Teaching for Student Success
Review the PowerPoint, handbook, and supportive resources for this section.
Complete the Check Your Knowledge quiz.