Curriculum Institute

2015 Curriculum Institute

Featured
Title Breakout Time
Online Education is a Contact Sport
2015 Curriculum Institute Program
Strength Training for Curriculum Specialists
Curriculum Boot Camp: Curriculum Overview from A to Z
Innovations in Curriculum: Addressing Equity and Achievement Gaps
Career Development College Preparation: Funding Changes and Curricular Impact
Curricular Review of the COR: Program Review Model
COR 101: Orientation
Class Size Spinning
Student Learning Outcomes, Assessment and the Curricular Process
Curriculum Committees and Administrative Participation
President’s Address: An Academic Senate Update
Chancellor's Office Update
Demystifying the Relationship Between Units and Hours
UC Transfer Initiative: Transfer Pathways
Labor Market Rationale in Curriculum
Curriculum Baccalaureate Degrees
Credit Course Repetition and the Impact of the Regulations
Curriculum Innovations: Civic Engagement Across the Curriculum
Alphabet Soup: The EPI, OEI, and Curriculum
Ensuring Qualified Faculty for All Courses: The Disciplines List and Assigning Courses
Co-op Work Experience
Building a Fitness Foundation: Noncredit Curriculum Development
ADT Update Proposal Review
AoEs, MCs, and C-ID: Updates and Coming Attractions
TOP Codes, CIP Codes and MIS Coding
Innovations in Curriculum: Contract Education
Interacting with Local Senates
Curriculum Spring Training: Scenarios and Problem Solving
Low Unit Certificate Approval and Stand alone Courses
Curriculum Efficiency: Idea to Approval
Is More Always Better: The Challenge of Unit Creep and Increasing Contact Hours
Innovation in Curriculum: Trends in English/Reading Models
Keeping Meetings on Track: Ensuring Effective Participation
Dual Enrollment and Curricular Implications
The Impact of the Task Force on Workforce, Job Creation, and a Strong Economy
Getting Stronger: Advanced Noncredit Curriculum Development
Training Curriculum Committees: Efficiency and Standards
Equity High Jump: Content Review and Disproportionate Impact
The Future Health of Local Associate Degrees
Math Requirements and Intermediate Algebra
Articulation Officers and Counseling Students: What every curriculum committee should know about articulation and the officers work
Basic Skills Definitions
Collaborative CTE Programs: Yours, Mine, or Ours?
Evaluating Your Curriculum Committee
Credit, Noncredit and Community Services Courses
Facilitating Difficult Discussions
Outcomes or Objectives: What's the Difference?
Curriculum Committee Q&A

This year’s event includes a pre session option designed for new curriculum chairs, CIOs, and/or curriculum specialists. However, the more seasoned curriculum enthusiast may find it beneficial as well.  Additionally, there will be a noncredit strand, a CTE strand, and a curricular innovations strand.

2014 Curriculum Institute

Featured
Title Breakout Time
Prerequisites, Corequisites, and advisories—Oh My!
COR 101
Ensuring Students Receive Proper Credit The Relationship Between Hours and Units
Student Learning Outcomes, Assessment and the Curricular
Title 5, PCAH, and You
Noncredit Curriculum Development
Training Curriculum Committees
Proposal and Review Processes of ADTs
Labor Market Rationale in Curriculum
Keeping Meetings on Track Ensuring Effective Participation
Advisory Committees and Curricular Design
Curriculum Update from the Chancellor’s Office
Traditional Degrees and Certificates of Achievement
Community Service, Noncredit, And Credit - Oh My!
How Many People Does It Take To Place A Course in a Discipline?
TOP Codes and MIS Coding
Innovation in Curriculum—Experimental Courses
D.E. – Regular Effective Contact
Memos, Legislation, Mandates, and Goals – C-IDs, ADTs, TMCs, and You
Institutional SLOs, Assessment, and Dialog: The Ups and Downs of Data Management Systems
Credit Course Repetition
G.E. Bloat, Unit Creep, and Other Ailments Afflicting Curriculum
Facilitating Difficult Discussions**
AB86: Evaluating Outcomes and Creating Smooth Transitions
Collaborative Programs—Doing It Better Together
Content and Course Evaluation Review
Chancellor’s Office Q&A
Curricular Considerations for Student Access and Success

Last year’s theme was Everything Under the Sun, so this year, we have the dark side planned for you; welcome to the Curriculum After Dark. The Curriculum Committee has designed a program of essential information and navigational aids, process and procedural breakouts, as well as several veins you might explore including noncredit, career technical education, and technology. Often we become blinded by the myriad facets of our tell-tale regulations and structures that we may neglect such vital pathways to the same curricular core.

2012 Curriculum Institute

Title Breakout Time
Friday Breakout: Navigating the PCAH
Saturday General Session: Prerequisites and Content Review Implementation (ppt2)
Saturday General Session: Prerequisites and Content Review Implementation (ppt1)
Saturday General Session: Prerequisites and Content Review (3)
Saturday General Session: Prerequisites and Content Review (2)
Saturday General Session: Prerequisites and Content Review (1)
Saturday Breakout: Regionalizing CTE Programs
Saturday Breakout: Basic Skills Revision and Support
Saturday Breakout: Courses are like... Snowflakes
Friday Breakout: Resources for Curriculum Chairs
Friday Breakout: Instructional Materials
Friday Breakout: Assigning Courses to Disciplines
Friday Breakout: Assigning Courses to Disciplines
Friday Breakout: Is Budget Driving Curriculum?
Friday Breakout: ASSIST - A Curriculum Tool You Can't Live Without
Curriculum Inventory Version 2 Memo
Friday Breakout: Defining Noncredit/Moving from Credit to Noncredit
Friday Breakout: The Curriculum Committee’s Role in Building Strong CTE Programs
Friday Breakout: Involving Students in the Curriculum Committee
Friday Breakout: Taking the Lead: Becoming a New Curriculum Chair
Friday Breakout: Making Sense of General Education
Friday Breakout: Revisiting the Separate Approval Process for Courses
Friday General Session: Articulation with the Universities
Friday Breakout: Repeatability Changes: Visual and Performing Arts
Repeatability Breakouts (Both Thurs and Fri)
Thursday Breakout: Repeatability Changes: PE
Thursday Breakout: Credit Outside the Classroom
Thursday Breakout: Credit Outside the Classroom
Thursday Breakout: Building a Strong Foundation
Thursday General Session: Fitting it All Together

The Curriculum Institute provides expert advice for new and veteran curriculum committee chairs and members. In addition to the traditional focus on upholding quality and encouraging effective practices, this year’s institute will explore reactions and responses to the recommendations of the SB 1143 Student Success Task Force and other outside influences on curriculum.  Teams of five members per college are encouraged to attend. Registration for this event closes quickly, so make plans to early to join us in Burlingame this July.

2011 Curriculum Institute

Title Breakout Time
Friday - Credit by Exam and Alternative Means to Earn Credit (PPT)
Saturday - General Session: Prerequisites and Content Review (Handout)
Saturday - General Session: Prerequisites and Content Review (PPT)
Saturday - Whose Course Is This, Anyway?!?! (PPT)
Saturday – Using Data to Inform Curricular Decisions (PPT)
Saturday - AA-T and AS-T Degrees - Considerations for Developing TMC-aligned Degrees (PPT)
Friday - The Value of ASSIST (PPT)
Friday: Defining General Education: What Belongs and What Does Not? (Handout)
Friday: Defining General Education: What Belongs and What Does Not? (PPT)
Friday - TOP Codes and Data Elements (PPT)
Friday - General Session: Repeatability (PPT)
Friday - (C-ID) – Common Course Numbering, Articulation, Transfer Degrees, and Beyond (PPT)
Friday - Credit by Exam and Alternative Means to Earn Credit (Handout)
Friday - Credit by Exam and Alternative Means to Earn Credit (Handout)
Curriculum Institute Roster
Friday - When Does Size Really Matter? Class Maximums and Student Learning (PPT)
Friday - Owning the Quality of Your Distance Education Curriculum Through Compliance (PPT)
Friday - AA-T and AS-T Program Approval (PPT)
Friday: The Exit Point Issue: Addressing Basic Skills Completion (PPT)
Thursday - Curriculum Concerns in Program Viability and Discontinuance Processes (PPT)
Thursday - Assigning Courses to Disciplines (PPT)
Thursday - Honors Programs and Serving Advanced Students (PPT)
Thursday - Course Outline of Record Basics (Handout)
Thursday - Course Outline of Record Basics (PPT)
SLO Pre-Event Program
Curriculum Program
SLO Institute Roster

Welcome

With a focus on quality and effective practices, the Curriculum Institute provides expert advice for new and veteran curriculum committee chairs and members. Collaboration is a key to success for the committee, and teams of five college members are encouraged to attend. Registration for this event closes quickly, so make plans to early to join us in San Diego this July.

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