Instructional Planning Yearly Update
Date ______11-20-13___________
Department _______Horticulture_____
Division ___NAS___________
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)
Continue to increase our student success rates and be
more efficient with our base funding
Y
Y/N
Replace greenhouse coverings in 2012-13.
Y
N (Fund 14)
Replace 2 staff in 2 years due to retirements
N
Y and N
Construct Permaculture site for classes and extension
classes.
N
N
Develop Long Cane Crop (Blackberries and
Raspberries) production area with temporary poly
coverings.$15,000
Y
N (Fund 14)
This is an ongoing exercise to keep our program current,
accessible to students wishing to enter the career and working
with existing faculty and staff expertise. Students that work for
us have a much higher success rate securing well paid jobs
when leaving Cabrillo College.
Purchase order has been submitted and plastic ordered.
Estimated completion date : 12/30/13
We had one staff retire this past spring and was replaced and
the second staff may be here 1 or 2 years.
There have been major changes in the plan and the location.
The department is not likely to fund this project in its new
location. This has to be a college wide project. Our class will
use our current facilities as well as field trips.
Driscolls has donated the high tunnels and is currently
installing them. We expect to have the system running by late
spring. Estimated completion date: 3/14
New Goals and Recommendations
List any new goals and recommendations identified by the department
Goal/Recommendation
Cost
Explanation/Evidence of Need
Increase student’s ability to transfer to UC
None – This is now We have had more and more students deciding later in the process of
and CSU’s more seamlessly. We will be
Grant funded with a attending our program that they would like to transfer but the AS does
working with Carolyn Jackson on finding
grant from USDA
not transfer well. We are increasing our effort to recruit more students
transferable classes for more of our current
and UCSC.
from the local high schools as well. This is a 3 yr grant.
classes and attempt to make transfer
agreements with Cal Poly and Davis
Install a new greenhouse with separate
Unknown at this
Students are interested in and are currently growing crops, especially
building to teach and showcase food
time.
food crops indoors under lights. The facility will allow us to expand
production in the high density urban
our current greenhouse grown food as well as teach high density
environment and the use of LED lights.
production under lights.
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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 you’re not sure where you should be on the Revolving Wheel
contact the SLO Coordinator (x6366). If any task was not completed, explain why.
We are year 2 in the wheel of assessment, currently assessing course SLO’s. We are meeting in smaller groups and large groups during flex
week to discuss our SLO findings. Faculty are then modifying their projects and lectures to increase student success.
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
Date of meeting where
SLO, or CTE Program SLO analysis / dialogue took
Assessed. Example: all course place. Example: Department
SLOs for English 1A, 1B and 2 Meeting 8/27/10
Hort 1B - Anticipate the growth Department Meeting
of horticultural crops in a
8/29/13
controlled environment to
changes in environmental
conditions
Hort 54 CRITICALLY ASSESS A
HORTIUCLTURAL BUSINESS
FOR PROPER FINANCIAL
PROCEDURES AND GOOD
MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES
Hort 58 - Construct an
irrigation system
Properly size pipes for design
Hort 63 - EVALUATE A SITE IN
TERMS OF SUN, SHADE, VIEWS,
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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.
Develop experiment showing influence of DIF to cement concept and
application in floriculture.
Develop another scenario involving math calculations for a different type
of horticultural business and have the students do a group activity to
reinforce the idea of using math to evaluate financial procedures for a
profitable business
Revise activities leading up to and/or supporting assignment/activities
And increase guidance for students as they work on assignments
I will comment weekly on the value of getting started on the project early
on so that their rough design ideas can be reviewed in lab at least once
SOIL TYPE AND POTENTIAL
USES.
before presentation. I will emphasize that presenting their work in
progress also gives them practice at sharing their ideas with others in a
more informal way prior to the preliminary planting plan presentation.
Hort 63 - justify the use of
elevation and plan view
drawings to clearly illustrate a
landscape plan
Part I and Part II are usually fairly easy for most of the students. They trace
the examples once, then look and draw them, then draw them a third time
from memory. Obviously the memory drawing is the most difficult. For
some reason many of the students did not follow or understand the
directions for the first two parts of the lab. I explained this clearly before
they began. I will have to look at how the directions are worded and try to
clear that up before next fall's lab. I do not have copies of Figure 9-1 and 92 on my computer to include here but they are from the textbook we use
for the class.
Hort 71 - Design a sequential
task list for an annual vegetable
crop using good farm
management techniques’
Hort 125 - Compare and
contrast the various hydroponic
growing systems
I plan to practice this type of question more during class hours. This is the
most challenging question I ask, so I don’t expect 100% achievement.
Hort 150 - Investigate the
fundamental principles of pest
ecology and biological control
Need to spend more time on the ecology and the specifics of strawberry
insect ecology. Most students were very comfortable with pests and
biological control agents of strawberries
I will emphasize the needs to the one component to clarify its needs so it
can be properly placed relative to the other components.
Hort 160B - Assess a local
landscape for edible use
Increase in-class discussions and activities
Use methods of questions that encourage competency
In evaluating the answers, I concluded that the edible design plan needs to
be developed to include more detail to challenge the students more
completely.
Hort 172 - Evaluate trees in the
landscape for proper care and
maintenance
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Increase time spent on topics