Instructional Planning Yearly Update
Department: English
Date: 12/11/2012
Division: BELA
Goals and Recommendations from Program Plan
List the top five Goals and Recommendations from the last Program Plan and indicate whether they have been met?
Goals / Recommendations from six-year plan In progress
Goal Met
Comments
(identify source
of funding)
X
Continue to develop instructional methods which
increase student retention and persistence rates.
Website listing course descriptions for the composition
sequence is up and ongoing; Writing Awards have been edited
and revised to better promote and acknowledge student
achievement; we have begun developing a 1A research essay
rubric aligned with 255 and 100 portfolio rubrics; development
of extra-curricular activities to support students continues through
our collaboration with Poetry Santa Cruz and the development of
Cabrillo Reads.
Improve the quality of student writing across
campus.
x
x
Increase the number of basic skills students
who complete the composition sequence.
Create opportunities for professional
development.
x
x
Support students who will transfer by
adjusting English offerings to better meet
their needs.
We hired one full-time tenure track instructor: Dr. Steve
Schessler; we have maintained our level of staffing in the
Writing Center and ILC.
We have maintained our current level of participation with
learning communities (LC) throughout the campus, along with
continuing with themed based courses; we participated in a
new LC with medical assisting; acceleration for 255 students is
now available for all students as recommended by instructors
and through the portfolio assessment process.
During FLEX we conducted training on how to use department
rubrics and SLO analysis; we have developed a 3 hour training
session on how to implement acceleration in 255; all new
adjuncts were assigned a fellow instructor as part of our TIPS
program that promotes collaboration and mentorship.
We have approved and are in the process of establishing the
AAT degree; we rotate faculty who work in the Honors
program; we have reviewed English 1C and are aware that it is
no longer required by UC Berkeley.
New Goals and Recommendations
List any new goals and recommendations identified by the department
Goal/Recommendation
Cost
Explanation/Evidence of Need
Improve the quality of student writing across
As per contract for Each semester there are not enough adjunct instructors to cover
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campus: Hire a minimum of three tenure track full-time hires
instructors to replace all retirements.
classes; we have had hires three out of four past semester for part-time
pool faculty. Also we have had numerous retirees, both full-time and
adjunct.
SLO Assessment Progress: In a sentence or two, describe where your department should be on the Revolving Wheel of Assessment (what
assessment you should have done in the last year) and what was actually done. If not every thing was completed, explain why.
We are right on track: since completion of the program plan, we have assessed all course SLO’s for the composition sequence, we are currently
assessing all course SLO’s for the literature sequence, after which we plan on assessing all course SLO’s for the creative writing sequence.
Fill out the Assessment Results section below.
SLO Assessment Results: List SLO assessments, dialogues, and priorities identified as a result of your assessment below. Attach
Departmental Assessment Analysis Forms completed in the last two semesters.
Core Competency, Course
SLO, or CTE Program SLO
Assessed. Example: all course
SLOs for English 1A, 1B and 2
Reading SLO’s for
Composition sequence
All course SLO’s for
Literature sequence
All course SLO’s for Creative
Writing sequence
Date of meeting where
analysis / dialogue took
place. Example: Department
Meeting 8/27/10
fall 12 Flex week session
Priorities identified for program as a result of assessment. Example:
Develop strategies for teaching research and documentation skills; share
rubrics for research papers; provide more instructional support outside of
class.
Provide more staff development on how to effectively teach reading in the
composition classroom.
Will take place spring 13
Flex week department
meeting and fall 13 Flex
week department meeting.
Will take place spring 14
Flex week department
meeting and fall 14 Flex
week department meeting.
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