Institute+Core+Practices+Groups+-+continued+5




 * EXERCISE #2: "NOTEWORTHY.../...PLEASE CONSIDER"**

Additionally, participants were requested to comment on the following:


 * "What is noteworthy in terms of your project?"


 * "They were then given the opportunity to ask us, "Please consider..."

//**Due to the length of the entries, a separate page has been allocated to each college's submissions:**//


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 * = HIGHLINE ||=  ||=   ||= LOWER COLUMBIA ||=   ||=   || NORTH SEATTLE ||=   ||=   ||
 * NORTHWEST INDIAN ||  ||   || SPOKANE FALLS ||   ||   ||
 * NORTHWEST INDIAN ||  ||   || SPOKANE FALLS ||   ||   ||
 * NORTHWEST INDIAN ||  ||   || SPOKANE FALLS ||   ||   ||

**LOWER COLUMBIA COLLEGE:**
--Focus on active learning, problem-based pedagogy. --Focus on formative assessment --Excellent facilities for meetings. ||  ||   ||   || ...continue developing resources for administrators. ...ensure that expectations about core themes are clearly specified. For example, the importance of CATs. We were not aware that CATs should be an integral part of the project. They were not included in the Phase II applications, so we were a little surprised by the incongruance. || --The FIGs seem like a wonderful way to bring our historically dysfunctional department together to talk about things that will truly improve learning. We are at a turning point right now & this grant is helping choose the right road to follow. ||  ||   ||   || ...we were concerned about the addition of __requiring__ FIGs, CATs, Classroom Exchange as a part of the grant. During the first part of the Institute, I kept thinking "Oh God, now we have to do what else?" I thought my brain was going to blow. i now realize the importance of these to our overall success but I don't think we were made aware of it in the original grant workshops. ...every college should have a retreat for the entire faculty (fulltime & parttime) to go over changes, discuss FIGs, CATs, exchanges, etc. It is too much to include in a Pre-fall meeting. || --I think I will be better prepared/informed when as part of IBEST I "team teach" with math faculty. ||  ||   ||   || ...bringing some of your "experts" to the southwester corner of the state to make it easier for more faculty to attend workshops. Make those workshops open to ABE/GED as well as DevEd. We teach the same skills and sometimes the same students. ||
 * ~ //Noteworthy// ||  ||   ||   ||~ //Please Consider...// ||
 * --Good team time for project work
 * --Good team time for project work
 * I have really been thinking about how to improve student success in my classrooms and the college's as a whole. I am excited to have a new program that will make it faster for students to move through pre-college and hopefully with more understanding.
 * I have really been thinking about how to improve student success in my classrooms and the college's as a whole. I am excited to have a new program that will make it faster for students to move through pre-college and hopefully with more understanding.
 * --Coming to the project from ABE/GED it has been great to go back and forth between departments sharing the exciting changes that are happening.
 * --Coming to the project from ABE/GED it has been great to go back and forth between departments sharing the exciting changes that are happening.