1. Increasing Student Success by Integrating SLOs and Best Practices Beth Patel Cara Statucki Kreit ESL/Basic Skills English English Department College of Marin Link to our Wiki site: http://bit.ly/Hdeghghttp://bit.ly/Hdeghg

2. Rationale Overview of our college learning outcomes Summary of our process Website tour Applications to other departments Importance of professional learning communities

3. ESL course alignment and Student Learning Outcomes (SLOs) SLOs and classroom practices College-wide learning outcomes Inquiry Question: What instructional practices can we use to prepare basic skills students to successfully meet college-wide SLOs?

4. Written Competency 2. Critical Thinking and Problem Solving 3. Information Literacy 4. Visual Communication 5. Scientific Reasoning These SLOs reflect the core competencies required for students who complete the General Education program and serve as the SLOs for our GE program. Rubrics: http://bit.ly/HPeKtahttp://bit.ly/HPeKta

5. Write proposal; solicit materials from teachers in the department Collect current research, publications about new trends in the field and other schools, and conference materials Align the materials collected with the five college learning outcomes Create a Wiki site using the collected materials Share resources within the college and beyond

6. In your groups, look over the rubrics and talk about 1-2 activities that you use in your classroom that relate to one of the skills on the critical thinking rubric How can this type of work be applied to your own department? Do you have similar methods for sharing resources? Are they linked to course, program, or school-wide SLOs?

7. Questions? Contact: Beth Patel beth.patel@marin.edu orbeth.patel@marin.edu Cara Statucki Kreit cara.statucki@marin.educara.statucki@marin.edu Project was funded by the Basic Skills Initiative at College of Marin