Institutional Core Competencies Workshop

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Institutional Core Competencies Workshop

• Dr. Ian R. Haslam Dean
• Health Sciences and Athletics

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Overview

• ACCJC Guidelines
• League for Innovation in Community Colleges 21
  st C. Learning Outcomes Project
• World Futures Society Learning for Tomorrow
• AACU Great Expectations Report Empowered,
  Informed, Responsible
• Learning outcomes for the Learning Organisation
• Executive Summary of institutional core
  competencies
• Delphi Round 1 (from 25 to 10)
• Delphi Round 2 (from 10 to 5)
• Ranking top 5 with clicker technology

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Learning students need for the 21st C?
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College wide core competencies the context

• World Futures Society
• AACU Greater Expectations Report
• Organizational learning

Student Learning Outcomes
Curriculum
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The Learning Students Need for the Twenty-First
Century

• Empowered
• With the intellectual and practical skills that
  students need are extensive, sophisticated, and
  expanding with the explosion of new technologies.
  
• As they progress through grades K-12 and the
  undergraduate years, and at successively more
  challenging levels, students should learn to
• effectively communicate orally, visually, in
  writing, and in a second language
• understand and employ quantitative and
  qualitative analysis to solve problems
• interpret and evaluate information from a variety
  of sources
• understand and work within complex systems and
  with diverse groups
• demonstrate intellectual agility and the ability
  to manage change

AACU Greater Expectations Report, Educational
imperatives, for the 21st C
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The Learning Students Need for the Twenty-First
Century

• Informed
• While intellectual and practical skills are
  essential, so is a deeper understanding of the
  world students inherit, as human beings and as
  contributing citizens.
• Both in school and college, students should have
  sustained opportunities to learn about
• the human imagination, expression, and the
  products of many cultures
• the interrelations within and among global and
  cross-cultural communities
• means of modeling the natural, social, and
  technical worlds
• the values and histories underlying U.S.
  democracy
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AACU Greater Expectations Report, Educational
imperatives, for the 21st C
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The Learning Students Need for the Twenty-First
Century

• Responsible
• The integrity of a democratic society depends on
  citizens' sense of social responsibility and
  ethical judgment.
• To develop these qualities, education should
  foster
• intellectual honesty
• responsibility for society's moral health and for
  social justice
• active participation as a citizen of a diverse
  democracy
• discernment of the ethical consequences of
  decisions and actions
• deep understanding of one's self and respect for
  the complex identities of others, their
  histories, and their cultures.

AACU Greater Expectations Report, Educational
imperatives, for the 21st C
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Learning organisations
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Future skills and the learning organisation
Institutional Learning Outcomes
Responsible
El Camino College as a learning organization
for students faculty and staff
Informed
Empowered
Mental Models
Shared Vision
Systems Thinking
Personal Mastery
Teams
Five disciplines of the learning organisation
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Sooooo.

• Institutional learning outcomes/core competencies
  are as important for ECC employees in the future
  as they are for the students we teach!
• High performance organizations continually work
  toward refinement of employee mental models,
  their personal mastery, use teams effectively,
  work toward a shared vision and develop systems
  thinking skills

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Workshop activities - College wide core
competencies

• Review the executive summary of core competencies
  from 10 different institutions
• Consider the AACU Greater Expectations Report
• Dont forget the ECC institutional learning
  outcomes
• As a result of his/her experiences at El Camino
  College
• Students are productive citizens.
• Students are equipped to meet the challenges of
  life.
• Students are prepared for and are competitive in
  the workforce.
• Students possess critical thinking skills.
• Students embrace learning and are committed to
  lifelong learning.
• Students are knowledgeable about local and global
  events.
• Students appreciate and enjoy the arts and
  humanities.
• Students improve the quality of their lives.
• Students improve the lives of others.

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The Delphi Round 1

• Review the examples of core competencies
• Individually around each table select ten
• Each table average individual responses to reach
  a consensus on top ten core competencies.

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Results of Round 1

• Communication
• Creative, critical and analytical thinking
• Problem solving
• Personal responsibility and professional
  development
• Global awareness
• Reading
• Ethics
• Digital technology skills
• Personal and interpersonal skills 
• Lifelong learning

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The Delphi Round 2

• Discuss the new list of ten core competencies
• Individually around each table select your
  preferred five
• Table coordinator collect all responses and
  average them per table to reach a consensus on
  the top 5.

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Results of Round 2

• Communication
• Critical and creative thinking
• Personal responsibility
• Ethics
• Lifelong learning

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Ranking the top 5

• Using the clicker technology rank from one to
  five each of the five or six core competencies
• Critical and creative thinking 1.78
• Communication 2.07
• Personal responsibility 3.10
• Ethics
  3.82
• Lifelong learning 4.10