Student Learning Outcomes & Assessment Cycle (SLOAC)

Brown Bag Discussions... Fall 2010 and Spring 2011

Fall 2010:

    At Chabot this academic year, the SLOAC committee is hosting brown bag lunch sessions where we as a community can come together to discuss strategies to further develop our learner-centered classrooms.  Our discussions will be inspired by the texts below, which are used with the permission of the authors.

Theme 1 -  What Does it Mean for Us Today to be a Learning-centered Institution?  

College Day, Tuesday August 17, 2010 from 1-2 pm, room 502

• Chabot College's Vision, Mission, and Values statements
• The Learning vs. the Instructional Paradigms, adapted from Change Magazine, Nov/Dec 1995 (1 page)
• Ideas for developing a learner-centered classroom

Theme 2 -  Applying the Science of Learning to the University and Beyond

Session 1:  Wednesday, September 1, 2010 from 12-1 pm, room 510 (principles 1-4)

Session 2:  Thursday, September 16, 2010 from 12-1 pm, room 510 (principles 5 - 6)

• "Applying the Science of Learning to the University and Beyond," by Diane Halpern and Milton Hakel, from Change Magazine, July/Aug 2003 (5 pages)
• "Applying the Science of Learning" classroom strategies chart (our brainstorming)

Theme 3: Assessment of Deeper Levels of Cognition

Flex Day, Tuesday October 26, 2010 from 11 am - 12 pm, room 502

• Bloom's Taxonomy for the Cognitive Realm with Outcomes and Sample Assessments (our brainstorming)

Spring 2011:

Theme 2 -  Applying the Science of Learning to the University and Beyond

Session 3:  Thursday, Feb 17th, from 12-1 pm, room 510 (principles 7-9)

Session 4: Thursday, Feb 10th, from 12-1 pm, room 510 (principles 9-10 and review)

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