Welcome to the 2017-18 InTeGrate Professional Development Webinar Series

1. Welcome to the 2017-18 InTeGrate Professional Development Webinar Series Free and open to the public, this series aims to help faculty teach about the earth in the context of societal issues. The series incorporates InTeGrate principles into teaching practices, provides materials available for adoption, and creates a forum for participants to learn and share teaching strategies. https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/workshops/webinars/2017_2018/itg_supportstudents/index.html

2. Supporting the Success of All Students

3. Supporting the Success of All Students Who are your students? How is diversity represented in your program? Is there a particular group of students having a hard time in your program? Why might this be?

4. Strategies to Support All Students from Jolly et al. 2004

5. Strategies to Support All Students Engagement • Behavioral (relevance to social circumstances) • Emotional (fun, intriguing, intellectually rewarding) • Cognitive (willingness to master complexity, sense of when something has been mastered) • Vocational (fulfilling long-term aspirations) How to increase: include socially relevant activities (outreach, service learning), career counseling, alumni interactions

6. Specific Examples of Increasing Engagement: • GeoventuresProgram: curriculum based field trips https://www.facebook.com/GeoVenturesElPaso/ • Service Learning program • Tejano Passport Program http://www.epcc.edu/sacs/qep/Documents/Tejano_Passport_Brochure.pdf

7. Strategies to Support All Students Capacity • Logical-mathematical • Spatial • Naturalistic (recognize and classify objects) • Linguistic How to increase: allow students to demonstrate what they know and can do, include teamwork, open ended questions, less emphasis on speed/timed exams, hands-on, real-world experiences

8. Specific Examples of Increasing Capacity: Active Learning: EJ & freshwater module https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/teaching_materials/freshwater/index.html

9. Strategies to Support All Students Continuity: Pathways or systems with resources for advancement How to increase: make aware of required higher level courses, what they need to do to position themselves for career or 4YC, opportunities for scholarships, internships, financial support, tutoring, counseling, and other support services.

10. Specific Examples of Increasing Continuity: Capstone Courses: research methods, field methods Guided Pathways Maps

11. Administrator's view: important to have all 3 parts of ECC model!

12. Questions related to ECC approach?

13. Developing Cultural Competency • Three Dimensions of Diversity: structural (compliance, regulatory driven), multicultural (increase awareness), context (change academic culture and ways of learning) • Cultural context includes how we interact and associate with others, use living space, perceive concepts of time, process information, respond to teaching and learning styles, perform in the classroom and at work https://compact.org/resource-posts/context-diversity-reframing-higher-education-in-the-21st-century/

14. Developing Cultural Competency Specific, Individuated, Low Context: communication direct and verbal, task oriented, seek recognition, time is money, fast paced, culture can be changed, team oriented, privacy valued, compartmentalize information, linear thinkers, learn step by step Generalized, Integrated, High Context: value community, indirect and nonverbal communicators, process oriented, slower tempo, hands-on learners, information needs context, group oriented, culture is integral part of life, space and property are to be shared See “context diversity matrix” under webinar resources for other details

15. Developing Cultural Competency • German-British college model not well designed for high context people • Emphasize multicontextuality: ability to survive in a low (or high) context environment while maintaining your high (or low) context outlook in other parts of your life How can we provide this to students?

16. Developing Cultural Competency • Design class activities that expose students to different ways of learning (process oriented versus task oriented), step-by-step versus hands-on, group based versus individual based • Explicitly help students to understand that their context diversity reflects how they interact with the world (it is not a function of their ethnicity, gender, etc.) and how becoming multicontextual will increase their ability to thrive in a variety of contextual situations • Include extra-curricular activities such as service-learning and educational outreach in your program

17. Developing Cultural Competency Administrator’s View: K-12 education now focuses on active learning and group learning, need “structured flexibility” in teaching in higher education

18. Resources Example course materials to promote multicontextual thinking: Doser, D.I., and G. Weissmann, Observing the Rio Grande ecosystem to promote systems thinking (part of the On the Cutting Edge Peer Reviewed Teaching Activities collection), https://serc.carleton.edu/teachearth/activities/180485.html The Traveling Workshop Program!

19. Questions about context diversity?

20. Resources Beyond the Curriculum: http://serc.carleton.edu/NAGTWorkshops/departments/degree_programs/beyond.html Support the Whole Student: https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/programs/diversity/whole_student.html https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/programs/diversity/what_support.html Developing Cultural Competency: https://serc.carleton.edu/integrate/programs/diversity/dev_cultural_comp.html

21. Upcoming opportunities Next InTeGratewebinar: InTeGrate 101: How to incorporate InTeGrate classroom materials into your coursesFriday, December 8: 9 am Pacific | 10 am Mountain | 11 am Central | 12 pm Eastern Consider your department or course for NAGT’s Traveling Workshops Program Educators’ Rendezvous 2018 University of Kansas - Lawrence, KS Join the InTeGrate Webinar Series Community Discussion We appreciate your feedback and ideas Webinar evaluation