Spring Developmental Education & Corequisite Professional Development

With Lauren Fern, Assistant Professor and Math Discipline Lead, Missoula College. Chair of the MUS Developmental Education and Co-requisite Steering Committee

 

Session 1: Creating a Community, In-Person and Virtually
February 14, 2023. 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Register once for all four sessions using the link above.

Objectives:

• Establishing a safe, supportive,environment for the cohort.
• Setting goals for participation and growth during this professional learning series.
• Analyzing the characteristics of an equitable and effective corequisite culture.
  

Session 2: Developing and Assessing Student Understanding 
February 21, 2023. 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm

Register once for all four sessions using the link above.

Objectives:

• Examine ways to engage all students where they are and move them forward.
• Explore culturally responsive teaching strategies that motivate learning.
• Consider concrete strategies that support students in taking charge of their own learning.
• Explore effective routines for establishing and maintaining a student-centered active and collaborative classroom culture.
  

Session 3: Empowering Students as Learners 
February 28, 2023. 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm.

Register once for all four sessions using the link above.

Objectives:

• Examine ways to impact student mindsets and motivation.
• Explore strategies to promote metacognition and self-regulation.
• Consider the precepts of Universal Design for Learning.

 

Session 4: Building Departmental Cohesion and Growth, Assessing Your Corequisite Program 
March 7, 2023. 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm.

Register once for all four sessions using the link above.

Objectives:

• Explore actions that support collaboration and coherence.
• Practice strategies for content alignment.
• Explore incorporating student voice into the evaluation process
• Consider engaging all faculty in continuous improvement of instruction

Session 1: A Known Quantity: Corequisite Instruction is a Proven Completion Strategy
February 16, 2023. 

with Heidi Loshbaugh

 

Objectives:

• Mental Model: Student Ready Campus
• Corequisite Instruction 101
• Coreq as strategy: impact beyond the classroom on success, retention, & completion
• Institutional ROI
• Call to Action:
  1. Delivering sustainable budget models
  2. Prioritizing rooming, scheduling, and staffing
  3. Creating & implementing routine quality improvement

 

Session 2:  Rethinking Placement: Moving from Sorting to Supporting
February 23, 2023. 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

with Connie Richardson, Ph.D., The Charles A. Dana Center (retired)

 

Join in this discussion of modernizing the concept of placement. Rather than sorting students into multiple levels of developmental education, let’s move toward default placement into college-level courses and repurpose historic placement strategies to assess the level of support students need to be successful in those courses.

In this session, participants will:

• Engage with evidence that supports the need for rethinking placement.
• Consider evidence-based strategies for corequisite placement.
• Begin or continue planning for implementing corequisites at scale.

 

Session 3: Academic Advising and Co-requisite Support: A Pathway to Success
March 29, 2023. 2:00 pm to 3:30 pm

with Melinda J. Anderson,  Ed.D, Executive Director for Network Engagement, Achieving the Dream

 

Objectives:

1. Participants will understand the importance of academic advising practices in relationship to co-requisite supports
2. Participants will engage with their peers regarding promising practices in academic advising
3. Participants will create action steps for moving forward with academic advising practices and co-requisite supports

 

Session 4: Campuswide Practices: Using Data to Review & Improve Co-req Outcomes
April 11, 2023. 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm.

with Loretta Griffy, Ph.D., Austin Peay College

 

Objectives:

• Key metrics for transparent, consistent, & routine data review 
• Who needs to be in the room
• Building continuous improvement
• Narrative that data tells: How to solve the historical gateway challenge