1. Human Development Department Excellence is a CHOICE.
“Human Development helped me to balance everything that’s important in my life. The class will move you in the right direction and help you fit into college.”
-- Louie O. .
Academic Division:
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Disciplines:
Education, Psychology, Counseling

2. Objectives for Today Introduction: What is Human Development?
Student Outcomes: How do HDEV courses affect student success?
SSTF: How can we maximize opportunities for collaboration?

3. 1. Introduction
Through collaboration, Human Development challenges students to engage in the learning process as active participants and to cultivate the soft skills associate with success in college, work and in life.

4. Human Development: Focus on Collaboration
On Campus:
FYE Learning Communities & Integrative Assignments with English, Math, History
Dedicated courses for EOPS, Puente, Project Success, Special Resource Center
Faculty development programs focused on engaging students: Teaching and Learning Cohort, Faculty Inquiry Partnership Program
FIPP faculty generating active learning strategies

5. Human Development: Focus on Collaboration
In the Community:
Learning Through Service: +50 community sites, +3,000 hours/year
ECC/West LA/LMU Summer Bridge (CURSA)
Gretchen Renshaw, Manhattan Beach Botanical Garden
Rev. Dr. George Villa, St. John Evangelical Lutheran

6. Human Development: Focus on Student Learning & College Completion
Survey of Entering Student Engagement (SENSE)
Effective Practice with Entering Students:
early connections
high expectations and aspirations
clear academic plan and pathway
effective track to college readiness
engaged learning
academic and social support network.
Center for Community College Student Engagement (CCSSE) Benchmarks of Effective Educational Practice:
active and collaborative learning
student effort
academic challenge
student-faculty interaction
support for learners.
The Heart of Student Success: Teaching, Learning and College Completion.Center for Community College Student Engagement, 2010.

7. Human Development: Focus on Active Learning
Lecture 5%
Reading
10%
Audio Visual
20%
Demonstration
30%
Discussion Group
50%
Practice by Doing
75%
Teach Others/Immediate Use
80%
Adapted from The Learning Triangle: National Training Laboratories, Bethel Maine
©mindServegroup 2005

8. Human Development: Focus on “College Knowledge”
1. Key cognitive strategies, including analysis, interpretation, precision, problem-solving and reasoning.
2. Specific types of content knowledge, most importantly the ability to read and write critically.
3. Attitudes and behavioral attributes, including study skills, time management, awareness of one’s performance, persistence, and the ability to utilize study groups.
4. Contextual knowledge about college resources and expectations and how to successfully adjust to navigating the college environment.
David Conley, Educational Policy Improvement Center, University of Oregon. Cited in California Community Colleges Student Success Task Force.

9. Student Success: The issues of transition are much greater than just academics.
HDEV curricula empower students to take control of their lives by helping them apply eight essential success principles to their important decisions. 
These success principles include:
Accepting self-responsibility
Discovering self-motivation
Mastering self-management
Employing interdependence
Gaining self-awareness
Adopting life-long learning and critical thinking
Developing emotional intelligence
Believing in yourself

10. Human Development Department
Course
Title
Units & Format
Assoc.
Degree
Transfer
HDEV 8
Orientation to College & Educational Planning 1
8 weeks 
CSU
HDEV 5
Career & Life Planning
 CSU
HDEV 20
Navigating the Transfer Process
HDEV 10
Strategies for Creating Success in College & in Life 3
16 weeks
CSU/Area E
 UC
HDEV 12
Strategies for Creating Success in the Workplace

11. Human Development Department
HDEV’s orientation to college, educational, career and life plans set students on a pathway to a successful outcome.
Courses Learning Outcomes
HDEV 5 Career Plan
HDEV 8 Educational Plan
HDEV 12 Job Search Plan
HDEV 10 Educational and Life Plan
HDEV 20 Transfer Plan

12. 2. Student Outcomes
Through active engagement and a commitment to excellence, HDEV students experience significant academic and personal growth.

13. Student Success: Students Experience Significant Academic and Personal Growth
93% of HDEV students report that they improved academically.
97% of HDEV students report that they experienced personal growth. Growth was defined as improvement in the 8 principles of success.
Personal Responsibility
Self-Motivation
Self-Management
Interdependence
Self-Awareness
Lifelong Learning
Emotional Intelligence
Belief in Self

14. Student Success: Students Experience Significant Academic and Personal Growth

15. What students have to say about Human Development courses:
“After attending the class, I became a creator. I now take ownership for my responsibilities rather than blame others.”
-- Erika B.

16. HDEV’s Orientation to College
97% of HDEV students reported that they know campus resources and/or websites where they can find information about college, degree options and transferring.
94% of HDEV students report that they have learned information and skills important to success in college.

17. HDEV Students Master Educational Planning
HDEV8 and HDEV10 have assignments that require that students be able to identify and apply resources, tools and procedures to create educational goals and an educational plan.

20. HDEV Students Master Educational Planning
98% of HDEV students understand the tools used in educational planning and know how to create an Educational Plan.
96% of HDEV students know what college or possible colleges that they will consider for transfer. Those not planning to transfer know what degree program(s) they plan to complete at ECC.

21. HDEV Courses Emphasize Self-Management & Goal-Setting
• 85% of HDEV students reported that they were more organized after taking the course than they were before.
• 98% of HDEV students reported that HDEV helped them learn to effectively set academic and personal goals.
HDEV students learn and apply a number of tools to help them stay on top of assignments, organize and track group projects, and manage their busy school, work and personal lives.
Setting goals in these and other areas provides students with direction, motivation and a way to measure progress.

22. What students have to say about Human Development courses:
“The course builds confidence and keeps goals achievable and realistic.”
-- Nikkie C.

23. HDEV Courses Emphasize Building Emotional Intelligence
• 93% of HDEV 10 students indicated that they view emotional intelligence as critical to college success.
• 82% of students reported that they were able to stay on track toward their goals even when they encountered challenges and obstacles.
Emotional intelligence is a learned ability that could be considered the single most important variable in achievement in college.
HDEV students gain the knowledge and skills to manage emotions in order to stay on track toward goals despite challenges and obstacles.

24. What students have to say about Human Development courses:
“This course prepares you to reach all of your goals!”
-- Tady S.

25. 3. SSTF: Opportunities for Collaboration
Recommendation 1: Increase Student Readiness for College
Recommendation 2: Strengthen Support for Entering Students
2.1: Require all incoming community college students to (1) participate in diagnostic assessment and orientation and (2) develop an education plan.
2.4: Require students whose diagnostic assessments show a lack of readiness for college to participate in a support resource, such as a student success course, learning community, or other sustained intervention, provided by the college for new students.

26. How HDEV can support implementation of SSTF recommendations:
Courses documented to significantly enhance student success and learning.
In-depth orientation to college resources; shifting students from informed to engaged by mobilizing them to create a personal network of support services.
Equipping students to take ownership of educational, career and life planning.
Providing students with opportunity to develop skills, attitudes and behaviors necessary for college readiness.
Ongoing collaboration with colleagues, programs, and initiatives (EOPS, FYE, Puente, Project Success).