1. High Impact Learning Experiences Departmental Supports & Strategies Barbara Decker Pierce Director, School of Social Work

2. Learning Experiences No ImpactHigh Impact

3. My experience tells me … PlannedEmergent GRAND PLANS are useless: “Life is what happens when you are busy making other plans” Change is an emergent process ▫Vision & opportunistic actions & learning A critical mass of people who see things in a new way … join together and produce innovative initiatives

4. Change as Bridge Building “When we commit to a vision to do something that has never been done before, there is no way to know how to get there. We simply have to build the bridge as we walk on it …” Robert E. Quinn

5. Vision As simple as having a picture in your mind and the minds of others of the desirable future …

6. King’s: Vision Values & Learning GOAL 1 To establish a community of engaged scholars actively pursuing the acquisition, creation & dissemination of knowledge Objective 1.1 To create significant learning experiences for our students

7. Opportunistic Actions Budget Creativity Enabling Faculty/Others Feedback Classroom Changes Innovation GSA’s for TA’s Experiments Cheerleading – moral support

8. Budget Creativity Where will we get the money … Budget request – long shot Robbing Peter to pay Paul – reallocation ▫Printing ($16K to $10K) ▫Postage($4.5K to $1.5K) ▫In year “adjustments” Revenue generating events

9. Enabling Faculty/Others Pick the low fruit … early adopters and those who “get” the vision … ▫Operational Support ▫Workload “adjustment” ▫Encouragement ▫Availability ▫Networking – make the connection ▫Hiring sessional faculty

10. Feedback SET’s Mid Term Assessments Program Level Feedback Appreciative Enquiry

11. Feedback Think about a particular class you attended that made you excited about learning and challenged your thinking. It was exciting, productive, effective and even fun. Describe this experience and the qualities that made it so satisfying and successful. What were the conditions that allowed this to happen? What did you do to make it so successful?

12. Classroom Changes Make the classroom setting work for you ▫LH220 Distance Classrooms – think outside the “BOX”

13. Innovation Encourage innovation … “approval” Look for ways to say yes … ▫Ask for forgiveness not permission Example SW3302 and SW3319

14. GSA’s for TA’s Reallocation of resources for SW1021/22 12 fourth year TA’s replaced by 2 GSA’s ▫Identify & keep current in-class resources (news articles; websites; YouTube; Ted talks; innovations) ▫In class support for small group exercises; peer tutor ▫Role plays ▫Generate exam multiple choice questions Reallocate funds to guest speakers; experiential learning

15. Experiments Blended Learning ▫Develop experience ▫Dean’s OK – test section ▫Evaluation plan ▫Presentation Blended Learning Sections

16. Cheerleading – Moral Support Encourage good ideas Celebrate Spread the Word Challenge Learning

17. Overall – Administrative Role Remind everyone of the Vision A critical mass of people who see things in a new way