MAT1033 SUPPORT ACTION PLAN

Core Team Members:Rene Barrientos, Chair, KendallJermaine Brown, Chair, IACCaridad Castro, Chair, HialeahAlina Coronel, Faculty, KendallJorge Mike Cuellar, Associate Instructor, Kendall

Oswald Durand, Faculty, Hialeah 

Why the need for additional support?

Input

OverwhelmedLearner -Helplessness

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT

Learning Assistants assigned to sections.

Review Sections that promote active & deep learning, nurture self-regulated

learners.

Academic support in the tutoring labs.

Campus-wide collaboration and common philosophy.

Output

In control -Better Prepared

Helping Students Succeed in MAT1033

COMMON PRACTICES

0 Initial Assessment during the first week of class.

0 Additional Online Support consists of online monitored assignments and pre- test review sessions.

0 Learning assistants and math lab support.

DEFINITIONS

0 The initial assessment is a short instrument designed to assess the student’s potential to succeed in MAT1033. It will be administered during the first week of class thus allowing students the opportunity to switch to a dev. math course.

0 Additional support consists of monitored periodic online assignments and pre-test review sessions run by the assigned Learning Assistant.

DEFINITIONS

0 Learning Assistants are lab personnel and other academic support personnel that will be assigned to sections, coordinate review sessions for faculty to whom they are assigned, and support students in the academic labs.

COMMUNICATION PLAN

0 Flyers and other printed announcements in labs and academic areas.

0 Use of LA’s to visit classrooms during the first week of classes and before exams. These visits will be brief and coordinated by the instructor of record, and their purpose will be simply to remind students of the LA’s schedule, as well as lab hours.

0 Instructor announcements via their academic management systems.

0 Language in the syllabus will include additional support Information; an example of this language is as follows:

COMMON LANGUAGEOn Campus Support: In order to better assist you to succeed in this course, the campus has academic support labs where you may meet with tutors and receive additional assistance with your course work. In addition, your section has been assigned a Learning Assistant who will conduct review sessions before exams and assist you during the semester. He/she will be visiting your classroom in the first weeks of class to provide more information.

The math Lab | Location: room _________ | Operating hours:

Monday – Thursday: 9:00 AM – 9:00 PMFriday, Saturday: 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM

TIME LINE (dates are milestones)5/30/20140 Identify resources needed.0 Identify software platform.0 Meet with student services to open the lines of communication.

6/15/20140 Create diagnostic instrument.0 Complete flyers for labs and academic areas.0 Complete information presentation for new student orientation. 0 Run plan by F/T faculty.

8/15/20140 Complete preparations for adjunct faculty orientation. 0 Send syllabus and flyer to students enrolled in MAT1033.

7/30/20140 Assign L.A's to sections.0 Communicate with adjunct faculty to inform upcoming orientation.0 Complete information capsule, syllabus, and flyer for the campus adjunct faculty orientation sessions.

7/15/20140 Chair and lab managers complete training of LA's.0 Provide lead advisors and all academic lab personnel information capsule. 0 Receive input from fulltime faculty.

6/30/20140 Diagnostic instrument completed.0 Rewrite syllabi to include new resources. 0 Identify Learning Assistants.

By first week of section start date:0 Planning meeting between faculty and assigned LA.0 Introductory visit of LA’s to assigned sections. 0 Administer the initial assessment

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