Category: Daily Agendas

• Discussion: what was one takeaway from yesterday’s session?
• Discussion of the pre-workshop reading
• Activity: A week in the life of our students
• Intro to CT101 Session 2
• Discussion of “ungrading” and growth mindset learning
• Activity: If the Walls Could Talk (tentative)

Reflection-:Do you remember your own transition into college? Do you remember when you felt connected and found a community of people with whom you felt you belonged? In the space below, we invite you to share your own story of becoming a college student. In what ways was your college experience similar to that of our first-generation students? How was it different?

Pre-Workshop Reading:  The First Generation College Experience: Implications for Campus Practice, and Strategies for Improving Persistence and Success, Chapter 2, by Jeff Davis

• Activity :What do our incoming students need to know?
• Welcome and overview of program (by Lauri Aguirre, Director of First Year Programs)
• Icebreaker activity
• Observations on City Tech first-year students (by Sarah Paruolo, Director of the Student Success Center)
• Duties and Responsibilities of the CT101 Instructor
• Activity: Connecting to Resources at City Tech
• Intro to CT101 Session 1

Before Session Two: complete reflection on OpenLab: If I could make one improvement to the City Tech student’s experience, what would it be, and why?”