Lone Star College System College

New Faculty CollegeScope Webinar, January 13, 2012

PowerPoint for Faculty (CollegeScope features, new 5th edition, research (brief), demo of student and faculty portfolio, increasing student success and retention, the assessments

PowerPoint for Students: Getting Started with CollegeScope (Updated for new 5th edition)

          Personality Checklist
          Job Jar Activity
          Common Problems and Easy Solutions
          Research Article
          Life Stories
          Tips for Engaging Students in Learning
          Paper Airplane Exercise

New Faculty CollegeScope Webinar (New Edition,) December, 2011

PowerPoint for Faculty (CollegeScope features, new 5th edition, research (brief), demo of student and faculty portfolio, increasing student success and retention, the assessments

PowerPoint for Students: Getting Started with CollegeScope (Updated for new 5th edition)

New Faculty CollegeScope Webinar, August 27, 2011

PowerPoint for Faculty (CollegeScope features, research (brief), demo of student and faculty portfolio, helping students login, increasing retention and success, personality and learning style assessments

PowerPoint for Students: Getting Started with CollegeScope

       Handouts
          Personality Checklist
          Job Jar Activity
          Common Problems and Easy Solutions
          Research Article
          Life Stories
          Tips for Engaging Students in Learning
          Paper Airplane Exercise
          Faculty Guide for Getting Started with CollegeScope

Student Success Course Faculty Training, June 9 and August 11, 2011, 12:20-4:00 p.m.
       PowerPoint: CollegeScope features, research (brief), demo of student and faculty portfolio, setting up your account, increasing retention and success,
          personality and learning style assessments. (videos deleted for easier download)
          PowerPoint for Students: Getting Started with CollegeScope

New Faculty Professional Development Webinar, January 5, 2011, 6-8:00 p.m.
         PowerPoint: Features, Faculty and Student Portfolios, Technology, Research, Logging In, Improving Success and Retention
         PowerPoint: Administering and Interpreting DWYA and PEPS
         PowerPoint: Getting Started with CollegeScope (for students)
                       Part I: Getting Started
                       Part II: Common Login Problems and Easy Solutions
                       Part III: Introducing Chapter 2 and DWYA
                       Part IV: Introducing Chapter 3 and PEPS

       Handouts
         Skills Checklist
         Common Problems and Easy Solutions
         Job Jar Exercise, Job Jar Careers
         Freshman Year Experience Published Research
         Paper Airplane Exercise
         Life Stories
         Tips for Engaging Students in Learning
         Tips for New Instructors

New Faculty Professional Development August 5, 2010, 8:30-4:00
Continuing Faculty Professional Development August 5, 2010, 1:00-4:00
       PowerPoint: Features, New Millennial Students, Research, Logging In, Checklist of Skills, Improving Success and Retention
         PowerPoint: Getting Started with CollegeScope (for students)
         PowerPoint: Administering and Interpreting DWYA and PEPS
         PowerPoint: Walking Through the Bamboo Forest: A Relaxation Exercise for Reducing Test Anxiety, Career Trends of the Future,
                What's New with CollegeScope
         Video: Walking Through the Bamboo Forest: A Relaxation Exercise for Reducing Test Anxiety, Also on You Tube

         Handouts:
         Agenda
         Skills Checklist
         Common Problems and Easy Solutions
         Job Jar Exercise, Job Jar Careers
         Freshman Year Experience Published Research
         Paper Airplane Exercise
         Life Stories
         Tips for Engaging Students in Learning
         Tips for New Instructors

New Faculty Training January 13, 2010, 9:00-4:00

        Video: How to log in for the first time and start the assessments (2 minutes)
       Agenda
       Syllabus Template
       PowerPoint CollegeScope (overview, demo, Do What You Are, PEPS, logging in, introducing CollegeScope to your students, retention
                 and success, tips for engaging students in learning)
         User's Manual
                Do What You Are Manual
                Do What You Are Psychometric Report
        CollegeScope Common Problems and Easy Solutions
        Job Jar Activity
              Job Jar Careers
        Research on Student Success
        Research on Student Success: Lone Star College System
        Personality Checklist
        Learning Style Paper Airplane Exercise
        Life Stories
        Tips for Engaging Students in Learning

New Faculty Training December 10, 2009

      Agenda
        Video: How to log in for the first time and start the assessments (2 minutes)
        PowerPoint CollegeScope (logging in, introducing CollegeScope to your students, retention and success)
        PowerPoint (Do What You Are, PEPS, tips for engaging students in learning)
        User's Manual
                Do What You Are Manual
                Do What You Are Psychometric Report
        CollegeScope Common Problems and Easy Solutions
        Job Jar Activity
              Job Jar Careers
        Research on Student Success
        Research on Student Success: Lone Star College System
        Personality Checklist
        Learning Style Paper Airplane Exercise
        Life Stories
        Tips for Engaging Students in Learning

New Faculty Training July 16, 2009

        Video: How to log in for the first time and start the assessments (2 minutes)
          Agenda and Contact Information
          PowerPoint
          Research on Student Success
          Research on Student Success: Lone Star College System
          User's Manual
          CollegeScope Common Student Problems and Easy Solutions
          Personality Checklist
          Learning Style Paper Airplane Exercise
          Life Stories
          Tips for Engaging Students in Learning
          Additional material below: Motivating High Risk Developmental Students

Continuing Faculty Updates December 5, 2008

   Motivating High Risk Developmental Students
          Agenda and Contact Information
          PowerPoint
          Articles Relating to Motivation of High Risk Developmental Students
               Motivating Students from Tools for Teaching by Barbara Gross Davis (UC Berkeley)
               Motivating Students by Karin Kirk with summary of motivation research and pertinent references
              Aptitude, Motivation and Self-Regulation as Predictors of Achievement among Developmental College
                    Students from Research and Teaching in Developmental Education by Ray, Garavalia, and Murdock
          Weekly Schedule
          Schedule Analysis
          One Hour Project
          Motivation Group Exercises

College Success Faculty Training
June 25-26, 2008

Frequently Asked Questions about CollegeScope
This document provides the basics of logging in, adding students to your account, accessing faculty resources and using the most important features of CollegeScope.

CollegeScope Common Student Log In Problems and Easy Solutions
If students follow the simple directions for logging in, there should be no problems. However students may have difficulties because they do not follow the directions. This document contains the common questions that students ask about logging in along with some simple solutions.

PowerPoint Presentations

PowerPoint for June 25: features, using technology with New Millennial students, overview, administering the Do What You Are personality inventory and the PEPS learning style inventory, how to get the best results with students, interpreting the assessments.

PowerPoint for June 26: research on student success, using CollegeScope to improve student success and retention, tips for engaging students in learning, teaching excellence, classroom exercises.

PowerPoint: Introducing CollegeScope: how to introduce CollegeScope to your students, slides of registration pages for each college.

Handouts

Agenda
Contact Information and College Success Website
CollegeScope User's Manual for Lone Star College System

Exercises

Personality Checklist
Paper Airplane Learning Style Exercise
Life Stories
Memory Test
Brainstorming Exercise (Peanut Exercise)
Guess Test
20 Things You Like to Do
Coat of Arms
Work Values Auction
Communication Scenario
Crime and Punishment, Worksheet
Tightwad Gazette
Person Bingo Faculty
Person Bingo Students

Research Articles

Exploring the Evidence: Initiatives in the First College Year, "Cuyamaca College", published by the National Resource Center for The First -Year Experience and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, 2008
This article profiles 22 colleges nationwide with significant results in student
success.

"America's Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future", Educational Testing Service (ETS), January 2007
          The three forces changing our nation's future include a lack of literacy and
          numeracy, increasing technological change and globalization, and increasing
          population diversity.

The Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE), "Reflections on CSSE's first Five Years, 2007 Findings
          Five strategies that work: 1. set high expectations and clear goals, 2. focus on
          the front door, 3. elevate developmental education, 4. use engaging
          instructional approaches, 5. make engagement inescapable
          Full Report
          Executive Summary