Session 2 Agenda, Tuesday June 18

  • 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?

Welcome!

Thank you for taking part in our professional development workshop for new instructors of City Tech 101, the student success workshop!

This site contains information and links to resources that will be useful for our workshop. Please feel free to explore its different elements.

This site is where you will complete your daily reflection after each session of our workshop. Go to the “Reflections” tab at the top of the page and follow the directions.

This site also closely mimics the OpenLab course sites that you will eventually create for your CT101 students. (You don’t need to do this from scratch! There is a model course available for you to clone.) As you use this site for the workshop, consider how your experience might be similar to or different from that of our students.

Session 1 Agenda, Monday, June 17

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?”