Design Charrette Goals

• Inventory best practices and redesign trends in teaching and learning in Developmental English
• Brainstorm what new approaches, resources, tools, etc. might support broader access and greater success for students needing remediation
• Build a community of practice around this topic

Charrette Design

This brainstorming and design course will run for 2 weeks with asynchronous resource postings and hosted discussions. One synchronous event is planned for the second to last day, July 19, at 2pm EDT.  This course is co-facilitated by a team of volunteers and will run throughout weeks of July 9-20. 

Certificate of Completion

For participants interested in receiving P2PU College of Education certification of course completion, you will be required to meet a minimun level of participation, which will include posting discussion questions and answers on each topic and suggesting up to five resources (sample syllibi, open education resource, useful free web-based tools, research papers, successful examples of activities, etc.)

Draft List of Tasks to Be Completed

July 9:  Week 1, Day 1  

Opening - Orientation, Information

• Overview of P2PU and peer learning
• Introductions of co-facilitators, participants
• Refine course structure, topics, assignments
  • Call for additional resources and additions to syllabus

July 10-11:  Week 1, Day 2-3

Reading Comprehension

• Core Competencies
• Successful Approaches
• Promising Practices

July 12-13: Week 1 , Day 4-5

English Language Fundamentals

• Core Competencies
• Successful Approaches
• Promising Practices

July 16-17:  Week 2,  Day 1-2 

Writing/Composition

• Core Competencies
• Successful Approaches
• Promising Practices

July 18: Week 2,  Day 3 

Learning/Study Skills for 21st c. college success

• Core Competencies
• Successful Approaches
• Promising Practices

July 19: Week 2,  Day 4    LIVE WEB PANEL

• Big Ideas in Redesigning Developmental English Curriculum
• July 19, 11:00 PDT/2:00 EDT
• Link to come 

July 20:  Week 2,  Day 5  Wrap Up and Future Activities  

• Reflections on experience
• Emergent Ideas for Action

Some background: Successful and Emergent Practices will be discussed throughout in terms of how these approaches may augment with use of online tools and media, social networking, learning communities and other 21st c trends in teaching and learning:

• Emergent Practices and Redesign projects: What is working for dev students?
  • Integrated
  • Accelerated
  • Concurrent enrollment
  • Contextualization
  • Project-Based
  • Technology assisted
  • Common Core articulation to Placement Exams
  • Authentic Assessment
  • Open Learning Resources

NROC will be developing rich online open resources for teaching and learning developmental english core competencies in 2013-2014. We use a participatory design and development process and welcome interest from subject matter experts who might want to be involved in the ongoing project. 

Possible Follow on Projects/Courses:

• Rapid Prototyping - Curriculum Hackathon
  • Design new curriculum proposals
  • Contribute lesson suggestions, outlines, open resources
  • Peer review and additions, augmentations, adaptations
  • Design multiple assessment approaches
• Publish charrette results - open access, creative commons, attribution of all co-facilitators
• Conference presentations
• F2F meet up (if funding is available)
• Participate in NROC Developmental English project