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Project
Title: Teaching-Learning Center
Project Director: Dr. Fay Freeman
Organization: Victor Valley College
Phone: (760) 245-4271, ext. 2414
Victor Valley College, in
collaboration with Cal State San Bernardino University, Azusa Pacific
University, Cerro Coso Community College and the California Virtual
Campus Regional Center 4, Discovery Elementry School of the art, Green
Tree East Elementry School, Irwin Elementry School, Yucca Loma Elementry
School, Adelanto Elementry School, Westside Park Elementry School,
Apple Valley High School and Victor Union High School District plan
to develop a Teacher-Learning Center to encourage students to persue
a teaching career. Objectives will focus on the following for year
two:
- Recruitment and Retention
of students Pursuing a Career in Teaching.
- Partnership Development.
- Curriculum Development
and articulation.
- Improve Reading skills
of 75 elementry pupils.
- Faculty Development.
Activities focus on the
following: online recruitment, joint admission, teacher information
workshops, counseling, faculty development, financial aid, partner
development, joint curriculum development, tutoring, mentoring,
distance learning/online programs, internships and teacher online
technology training.
The target population
will focus on 150 students who are interested in pursuing a teaching
career. A special effort will be made to target underrepresented
students. Formative and summative evaluation will be tied to the
objectives. We plan to enroll 150 students, and expect 80% student
completion rate.
Project
Title: Planning for Transdisiciplinary Curriculum for Art, Economics,
Drama, History, Math, Music and Technology
Project Director: Dr. Eric Mayer
Organization: Victor Valley College
Phone: (760) 245-4271, ext. 2299
Victor Valley College, seeks
a second-year Research Grant Renewal as an FSS Planning Grant to institutionalize
Transdisciplinary Curriculum in Art, Drama, Economics, History, Mathematics,
Music, Science, Spanish and Technology courses. The purpose of the
research is as follows:
- To plan and institutionalize
the use of Transdisciplanary Curriculum instructional delivery
to facilitate comprehensive awareness in students.
- To investigate and
compare the learning outcomes of 200 students enrolled in Transdisciplanary
Curriculum instructional courses with those enrolled in traditional
classroom instruction.
Objectives will focus on
increased student success, faculty training and institutionalize Transdiciplinary
Curriculum: (1) The Transdiciplinary Group will incorporate student
success practices into the Educational Master Planning process. (2)
70% of the 200 students will increase their learning through the interconnectiveness
of the eight disciplines. (3) Analyze the Transdisciplinary local
data with the statewide core measures. (4) 80% of the 15 faculty will
complete the Transdiciplinary workshop. (5) The Transdisciplinary/Arc
Project will serve as a prototype and fund a Transdisciplinary Curriculum
Arc for the Vocational Programs: Welding, Automotive, and Construction
Technology.
Formative and summative
evaluation will be tied to the project objectives. We plan to enroll
200 students and ex[pect course completion by 80% of students that
engage in Transdiciplinary Curriculum.
Project
Title: Student Support Services
Project Director: Christine Cole
Organization: Victor Valley College
Phone: (760) 245-4271
The
Student Support Services Program provides grants to insittutioons
of higher education for projects offering support services to low
income, first generation, or disabled college students. These support
services should increase thier retention and graduation rates, facilitate
thier transfer from two-year to four-yeaar colleges, and foster
an institutional climate supportiveof the success of low-income
and first generation college students and students with disabilities.
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