Room

Session Title and Description

Presenters

AB 022

Paired with a Historian:  Lessons Learned

Pairing developmental students with a transfer level history course for four semesters presents insights for modifications in developmental curriculum.  Participants will discuss challenges developmental students face in transfer level courses, as well as view the evidence to support paired courses as a bridge to college level courses.

Dr. Patricia Westergaard, Mary Kuecker

Blinn College

AB 028

PPCC's Study Skills Courses AAA 109

PPCC made the decision to require the AAA 109 course for all students who tested into a dev ed math or English course.  As a pilot the college decided to do two different curricula to compare the results.  In this session you will see the data from the last 2 semesters and take a look at the two curricula. Participants will be doing some of the activities used in these courses.

Nancy Swartz,        Monica Novack

Pikes Peak               Community College

AB 085

When Subjects Collide

How do you fully integrate disparate topics into one, smoothly running, learning-community course? This session focuses on some specific methods that are used by the presenters in their combined class and suggestions on how to go beyond just having the same students.

Fawn Oates, Professor of Psychology            Stina French,         Professor of English

Red Rocks Community College

AB 025

Get Ready for College English

Discover new digital resources developed in close alignment with Colorado's developmental English course redesign efforts.  A carefully scaffolded and integrated approach to reading and writing helps students develop foundational skills required for successful college study in any discipline.

Terri Rowenhorst,     Director of NROC Member Services

The NROC Project