Attachment:
HowDoWeConnect.pdf
FCS FLASH ISSUE Number 88:
September 2, 2008
October 2008: Germany: IKA’S
European Culinary Trip:
Read More
October 2008: Germany and Italy:
Coast Community College District
Culinary Olympics Trip:
Read More
October 2008: LA Trade Tech Trip
to Culinary Olympics/Germany and
Spain:
Read More
October 10-12: San Ramon:
FCS Program Plan Revision
Retreat
October 11: Diamond Bar:
Interior Design:
Student Career Day
November 5-8: Chicago, IL:
ITAA Annual Meeting: Evolving
Patterns International
Textile and Apparel Association
November 21-25: National Harbor,
MD:
Gerontological Society of
America Annual Conference
December 4-6: Charlotte, NC:
ACTE Convention & Career Expo
March 26-28: Sacramento:
CAEYC Conference California
Association for the Education of
Young Children
* We’ll get the word out! Do
you have upcoming events or
student successes you'd like to
post on this website? Contact
Joann Driggers .
New On the
FCS Site !
The 2007-2008 Mini Grant
recipients made some remarkable
accomplishments…
City College of San Francisco
implemented an innovative
program for transitional
employees at Goodwill.
College of the Desert
developed new science curriculum
for Early Childhood Education.
Sacramento City College
created a childhood nutrition
class for childcare providers.
San Joaquin Delta College
worked on a joint project with
University of the Pacific to
assure a seamless academic
transition program for Early
Childhood educators. Roger
Gerard, of Shasta College,
weighs in with online resources
to
help travelers save money in
this tight economy. Finally,
review the
information and online
resources available from the
Governors’ Career Technical
Education Initiative.
FCS
FLASH : Making New
Connections!
Good learning, like good work,
is
collaborative and social ,
not competitive and isolated. A
friendly, supportive classroom
environment facilitates
learning. That is why you want
to set the “
right ” tone the very first
day. You want students to have
an opportunity to get to know
each other and get to know you
too. Get your students involved
in making some new connections
with the active learning
exercise outlined below.
- Welcome
students and give them a
short intro into your
course.
- Explain
that you expect students to
teach and learn from each
other and the activity you
want them to complete will
give them an opportunity to
make some new connections.
- Distribute
the attached
handout, How Do We
Connect?
- Give
students about five minutes
to answer the 10 questions.
- Ask
students, you too, to move
around the class reading
other’s responses and
signing the sheets of those
with matches to their own.
- After 10 minutes, have
students return to their
seats and discuss
their new
connections. (Who got the
most matches? Which
questions were the toughest
to match? What questions did
they add? How will this
activity help them in this
class?)
FYI: Good
teaching is the creating of
those circumstances that lead to
significant learning in others.
Donald L. Finkel,
Teaching With Your Mouth Shut
This newsletter was brought to
you by a grant from the
California Community College
Chancellor's Office Family and
Consumer Science Collaborative
Grant (#06-0160).
Please contact Joann Driggers (
jdriggers@mtsac.edu ) with
any questions.
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