College Success Faculty Training
July 7-8, 2008

PowerPoint Presentations

PowerPoint for July 7: features, using technology with New Millennial students, overview, administering the Do What You Are personality inventory and the PEPS learning style inventory, how to get the best results with students, interpreting the assessments. 

PowerPoint for July 8: research on student success, using CollegeScope to improve student success and retention, tips for engaging students in learning, teaching excellence, classroom exercises.

PowerPoint: Introducing CollegeScope: how to introduce CollegeScope to your students, slides of registration pages for each college.

Handouts

Agenda
Contact Information and College Success Website
CollegeScope User's Manual for Clarendon College

Exercises

Personality Checklist
Paper Airplane Learning Style Exercise
Life Stories
Memory Test
Brainstorming Exercise (Peanut Exercise)
Guess Test
20 Things You Like to Do
Coat of Arms
Work Values Auction
Communication Scenario
Crime and Punishment, Worksheet
Tightwad Gazette
Person Bingo Faculty
Person Bingo Students

Research Articles

Exploring the Evidence: Initiatives in the First College Year, "Cuyamaca College", published by the National Resource Center for The First -Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, 2008
          This article profiles 22 colleges nationwide with significant results in
          student success.

"America's Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future", Educational Testing Service (ETS), January 2007
          The three forces changing our nation's future include a lack of literacy and
          numeracy, increasing technological change and globalization, and
          increasing population diversity. 

The Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE), "Reflections on CSSE's first Five Years, 2007 Findings
          Five strategies that work: 1.  set high expectations and clear goals, 2. 
          focus on the front door, 3. elevate developmental education, 4. use
          engaging instructional approaches, 5. make engagement inescapable
          Full Report
          Executive Summary