GSCC Says Pedagogy Matters

Are you a developmental education instructor interested in improving pedagogy? Global Skills for College Completion (GSCC) wants you to get involved:

• Join the GSCC Adjunct Faculty Community. We invite adjunct faculty to launch the community, and connect with the GSCC project. You will help advance and build upon GSCC's approach to improving developmental education pedagogy by connecting with adjunct faculty from across the country. This summer, GSCC is offering a stipend to developmental math and English adjunct instructors who will design and launch the online community. For details and to apply to the GSCC Adjunct Community workgroup, click here.
• GSCC is preparing for the fall launch of the Pedagogy Matters Campaign Community.  GSCC will hire and pay a stipend to ten 10 developmental education Math and English faculty to plan the Pedagogy Matters Campaign. This community will use crowd sourcing to build a viral campaign of faculty advocates to raise national awareness about pedagogy and advance a Pedagogy Matters Manifesto. If you want to help the country improve developmental education pedagogy to achieve better student outcomes, click here to apply to the Pedagogy Matters Campaign community workgroup.

GSCC's Jam on Teaching Dev Ed

If you’re a developmental ed practitioner and you haven’t checked out Global Skills for College Completion’s “Jam” on pedagogy, you should head over there right now!

The most active discussion is about using data and evidence to assess pedagogy (in contrast to assessing student learning). You can still contribute to the threads that began yesterday about institutional strategies, student context, and faculty attributes. The GSCC blog is keeping track of the highlights, which include ideas on curriculum contextualization, faculty adaptability, peer engagement, and creating a sense of community in the classroom.

The Jam ends tomorrow, so get into the conversation while you still can!

Alyson Zandt is a Program Associate at MDC.