Ice Breaker
What is one of your goals for What is one of your goals for attending the training session attending the training session today?today?
ThinkThink
Pair Pair
ShareShare
Overview
• Research on program effectivenessResearch on program effectiveness• Resources for faculty and studentsResources for faculty and students• Suggestions for using the textSuggestions for using the text• Do What You Are and PEPSDo What You Are and PEPS• Technology for the New Millennial Technology for the New Millennial
GenerationGeneration• Engaging students in learningEngaging students in learning
Persistence
• Students who return the next Students who return the next semestersemester
• Approximately half of community Approximately half of community college students nationwide do not college students nationwide do not persist after the first semesterpersist after the first semester
College Persistence Semester to Semester5 Year Average
• All successful PDC students 89%All successful PDC students 89%• All students 63%All students 63%• A 26% difference A 26% difference
Student Confidence
• The course helped 62% of students The course helped 62% of students feel more confident about their feel more confident about their academic skillsacademic skills
Grade Improvement
• 72% of student agreed or strongly 72% of student agreed or strongly agreed that the course helped to agreed that the course helped to improve gradesimprove grades
College Success: A Study of Positive and Negative
Attrition
Community College ReviewCommunity College Review
The Successful Student
• Had a definite goal or college Had a definite goal or college majormajor
• Based on this research, choosing a major and career planning was included in our college success course.
Resources for Facultyhttp://www.cuyamaca.edu/collegesuccess
• Classroom exercisesClassroom exercises• SyllabusSyllabus• ResearchResearch• PowerPointPowerPoint• Internet LinksInternet Links
Features
• College, career and lifelong successCollege, career and lifelong success• Do What You Are and PEPS Do What You Are and PEPS • Interactive activities within chaptersInteractive activities within chapters• Quizzes and answersQuizzes and answers• Journal entriesJournal entries• Exercises at end of chapterExercises at end of chapter• College Success Website with resources College Success Website with resources
for faculty and studentsfor faculty and students
College Success
• MotivationMotivation• Time and MoneyTime and Money• Memory and ReadingMemory and Reading• Test TakingTest Taking• Taking Notes, Writing and Taking Notes, Writing and
SpeakingSpeaking
Career Success
• Personality and Related MajorsPersonality and Related Majors• Learning Style and IntelligenceLearning Style and Intelligence• Interests and ValuesInterests and Values• Career and Educational PlanningCareer and Educational Planning
Lifelong Success
• Communication and RelationshipsCommunication and Relationships• Critical and Creative ThinkingCritical and Creative Thinking• Maintaining a Healthy LifestyleMaintaining a Healthy Lifestyle• Appreciating DiversityAppreciating Diversity• Positive ThinkingPositive Thinking• Life StagesLife Stages
Applied Psychology Course
• Theory and practical applicationTheory and practical application• Academic rigorAcademic rigor• Transferable to state universitiesTransferable to state universities
Expectations for Students
• Read the text before coming to Read the text before coming to classclass• Short QuizzesShort Quizzes• Journal EntriesJournal Entries
• Focus your class on interactive Focus your class on interactive exercises and discussion rather exercises and discussion rather than lecture than lecture
Journal Entries
• A way for students to think critically A way for students to think critically about the subject matter and apply about the subject matter and apply it to their personal livesit to their personal lives
• Most answers should be a well Most answers should be a well developed paragraphdeveloped paragraph
• Show a model of what you expectShow a model of what you expect• Collect them at the beginning of Collect them at the beginning of
class class
Key Theme
• Choosing a majorChoosing a major• Career choiceCareer choice• Learning StyleLearning Style• CommunicationCommunication• Self-understandingSelf-understanding
Carl Jung 1875-1961
• We are born with natural We are born with natural preferences which we develop over preferences which we develop over a lifetime.a lifetime.
• Exercise: What is a preference?Exercise: What is a preference?
Resources
• Do What You Are HandbookDo What You Are Handbook• Psychometric ReportPsychometric Report
Located at Located at www.cuyamaca.edu/collegesuccess
Administering the DWYA
• Find a time when you are not tired Find a time when you are not tired or rushed.or rushed.
• There are no right or wrong There are no right or wrong answers. answers.
• Each type has their own unique Each type has their own unique gifts and talents.gifts and talents.
Getting Good Results
• Encourage students to give honest Encourage students to give honest answers.answers.
• What are some reasons students What are some reasons students would not give honest answers?would not give honest answers?
• Think, Pair, ShareThink, Pair, Share
Administering the DWYA
• The test does not measure:The test does not measure:• IntelligenceIntelligence• Psychological or emotional Psychological or emotional
healthhealth
Administering the DWYA
• Answer the questions Answer the questions honestlyhonestly to get the to get the best results.best results.
• Answer the questions Answer the questions how you usually how you usually are when you are not stressed. are when you are not stressed.
• Do not answer the questions:Do not answer the questions:• How you want to beHow you want to be• How you have to be at home, work or How you have to be at home, work or
schoolschool• How others want you to beHow others want you to be
Extravert or Introvert?
How we interact with the world and where we place our energy
E_____________________________|____________________________I Extraversion Introversion
Sensing or Intuitive?
The kind of information we naturally notice and remember
S_____________________________|___________________________NSensing Intuition
Thinking or Feeling?
How we make decisions
T_____________________________|___________________________F Thinking Feeling
Judging or Perceptive
Whether we prefer to live in a more structured or spontaneous way
J_____________________________|_____________________________P Judging Perceiving
Exercise: Judging or Perceptive
• I can play anytime.I can play anytime.• I have to finish my work before I have to finish my work before
I playI play
The PEPS Learning Style Assessment• Measures preferences in 20 areasMeasures preferences in 20 areas
• PerceptualPerceptual•AuditoryAuditory•VisualVisual•KinestheticKinesthetic•TactileTactile
PEPS
• Immediate environmentImmediate environment• SoundSound• HeatHeat• LightLight• Design (formal or informal)Design (formal or informal)
PEPS
• EmotionalityEmotionality• MotivationMotivation• ResponsibilityResponsibility• PersistencePersistence• StructureStructure
PEPS
• SociologicalSociological• Self orientedSelf oriented• Peer orientedPeer oriented• Adult orientedAdult oriented
Using the Access CodeReminders for Students• The access code is on the inside cover. The access code is on the inside cover.
You can only use the access code once.You can only use the access code once.• Click on Click on RegisterRegister to begin. to begin.• Write down the email address and Write down the email address and
password you use to create your password you use to create your account.account.
• After registering, click on After registering, click on LoginLogin to to begin.begin.
Course Choices
• Face to FaceFace to Face• 22 sections22 sections
• Blended Blended • 22 sections22 sections
• OnlineOnline• 12 sections12 sections
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