Cuyamaca College faculty and project staff established
                      contacts with Southwestern College and were able to plan
                      and participate in a three-day, intensive On Course Workshop
                      provided by nationally recognized academic, Skip Downing.
Dr. Downing has made numerous presentations at national conferences and conducted faculty development workshops at many two-and four-year colleges and universities in the United States, Canada, Bermuda, and the Virgin-Islands. For the past nine years, he has facilitated the On Course Workshops for college educators focusing on proven strategies for empowering students to become active, responsible partners in their education and to achieve greater success in college and in life.

 

Participants explored learner-centered strategies for empowering students to become active and responsible in their own education. “In 18 years of teaching, this was BY FAR the most valuable workshop I have attended, I can’t wait to start implementing these techniques in my classroom,” says Pat Garity, automotive professor. Dr. Yvonette Powell, counselor in the DSPS department says, “The On Course workshop was a very unique workshop because it looks at the total participant. This was one of the greatest skills learned. Instead of just looking at time management, goal setting, and other general issues, this workshop  taught us how to help the student look at the individual internalized issues they are dealing with. I would recommend this workshop to anyone.”

 

Dr. Downing’s teaching, writing, and consulting are all guided by his belief that “the greatest mission of any educational institution is empowering its students to live rich, personally fulfilling lives.”

 

Left to right:

Maria Mendoza-Bautista (Title III),

Alicia Muñoz (ESL),

Pat Garity (Auto Tech),

Gloria Ensey (Child Development),

Skip Downing, Jackie Hider (Reading),

Raad Jerjis (Counseling),

Chuck Charter (English) and

Yvonette Powell (DSPS)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A big THANK YOU to all proposals submitted for the Title III Faculty Stipend project. On September 27, 2004, announcements were made to the        recipients of these innovative approaches toward  improving students   success. The green light will give faculty at Cuyamaca the opportunity to commence their projects in the fall 2004 and conclude in the fall 2005  semester.  Recipients will reveal additional information about their projects during staff development week on Tuesday, January 18th from                10:30 am-11:30 am.

Lindy Brazil, Chuck Charter & Jackie Hider

Bridges to Success/ Reading + Writing

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mary Graham

Online Tutoring Investigation

 

Susan Haber

Technological integration to increase student access and

retention rates in courses History 108 and History 109

 

Angela Nesta

Access to audiovisual material in the Cuyamaca College    

Library’s and the San Diego County Office of Education

online catalogs

         

Lyn Neylon

English & ESL sequence videos

 

Eric Preibisius

Math 90 Shadow Course: Building a Bridge for the Math Anxious

 

 

Deanna Thompson

Student Success Model online version

 

 

Peter Utgaard

Auditory learning and student retention in modern

world history online

 

Michael Wangler

New course development in Geography + Geology

Please visit our website for more information:

www.cuyamaca.edu/title3