Faster Stronger Better One ETS Programs Attempt to Create a Curriculum that is Meaningful to Student

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FasterStrongerBetter One ETS Programs Attempt
to Create a Curriculum that is Meaningful to
Students

• Presented by
• Rose Wooldridge Lauren Tingley
• UC Davis North State ETS

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Background

• College OPTIONS partnership
• Educational Talent Search grants

Shasta Union High School District
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• You can go to college
• College is great
• College is for everyone
• This is such a random program
• - Student Quote

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What the program needed

• Relevant, outcome-based activities that lead
  students to and through higher education
• Utilize technology whenever possible
• Progression students can see and measure
• Less talking to, more walking through

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UC Davis North State Educational Talent Search
Curriculum 2008-09

• Grant Objectives

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Final Portfolio
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Grant Objectives
College Career Exploration
Goal Setting/Time Management
Budgeting/ Financial Aid
Study Skills
Student Development
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Curriculum Guides

• A guide for each grade level
• Lists
• Title of workshop
• Workshop objectives, grant objectives and
  California content standards
• Domain(s) covered
• Voluntary projects

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Grant Objectives
College Career Exploration
Goal Setting/Time Management
Budgeting/ Financial Aid
Study Skills
Student Development

• Vark

• Save Me a Spot Scholarship

• Know Yourself
• Hollands Interest Assessment
• Sorting Values

• Career Exploration
• Cover letter/Resume

• Overcoming Obstacles
• Activities chart
• ETS Skills Inventory
• Summary of Accomplishments

• TRiO PhotoEssay

• True Colors
• Saving for College
• ETS Skills Inventory
• Summary of Accomplishments

• Community Service
• Job Shadow

• Majors, Careers, College
• ETS Skills Inventory
• Summary of Accomplishments

• College/Career/Major Exploration

• College Financial Aid
• Applications

• ETS Skills Inventory
• Summary of Accomplishments

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Budgeting/ Financial Aid
Goal Setting/Time Management
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This year we will

• Test the workshops in order
• Effectiveness
• Appropriateness
• Create time for feedback
• Test Projects
• Doable
• Outcome importance to the students
• Student success
• Begin to build portfolios

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Future Plans

• Develop workshops to cover more state standards
• Add 40 Developmental Assets
• Create a matching parent component
• Incorporate testing strategies that prepare
  students for a variety of assessments
• Create a web-based bulletin to collect feedback

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Budgeting/ Financial Aid
Goal Setting/Time Management
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Contact info

• Rose Wooldridge
• rhwooldridge_at_ucdavis.edu
• Nathan Zorn
• nvzorn_at_ucdavis.edu