Teaching Innovations
This mode of education, introduced in the 1950s, has dramatically expanded through the rise of online courses, now reaching nearly all community colleges.
What is distance learning?
This teaching approach integrates students' cultural backgrounds into the learning process, ensuring instruction is responsive to diverse experiences.
What is culturally responsive teaching?
Name the term that describes this—despite being viewed as essential, confidence in higher education is declining due to concerns over its ability to fulfill promises of social mobility and economic growth.
What is American ambivalence?
This educational reform concept advocates for using digital tools to expand access, personalize learning, and increase efficiency, often through technology-driven changes.
What is powering up?
These modernized academic spaces in community colleges prioritize student support over faculty research, offering resources like tutoring, technology access, and study areas.
This academic support program focuses on high-risk courses, providing embedded tutors and structured study sessions to help students succeed.
What is supplemental instruction (SI)?
The rise of this work structure is changing traditional employment models, creating greater job instability and weakening the economic security previously guaranteed by a college degree.
What is the gig economy?
This comprehensive teaching approach combines subject knowledge, student needs, and contextual factors, focusing on holistic student development through various learning activities.
What is convergent teaching?
This committee, consisting of department chairs and program heads, is responsible for guiding curriculum development and instructional decisions in community colleges.
What is the curriculum and instruction committee?
This approach, introduced in the 1970s, integrates writing assignments across various disciplines to improve students’ writing and critical thinking skills.
What is Writing Across the Curriculum (WAC)?
This educational model aims to strengthen teaching by focusing on student success, incorporating research-based practices from K–12 and sociocultural education.
What is convergent teaching?
This teaching approach emphasizes integrating students' cultural backgrounds into the classroom, viewing their home and community knowledge as valuable assets in the learning process.
What is asset based pedagody?
Introduced in the 1990s, this educational model focuses on student learning outcomes and active engagement, shifting away from traditional teaching methods.
What is the learning college model?
In this educational model, students advance at their own pace, demonstrating mastery of specific competencies instead of following a traditional academic schedule.
What is competency-based education (CBE)?
This term, and 2011 publication, refers to the phenomenon where many students, despite attending college, show minimal growth in critical thinking and academic skills.
What is "academically adrift"?
This term refers to the lasting impact of a professor's teaching on their students' future success, often seen in cases like sociologist John Pock’s mentorship.
What is the pocket effect?