Developmental Education

CONNECT 4 SUCCESS: connecting English 091 students to support services

A collaborative project supported by the 2012 Maricopa Summer Institute (MSI).

Project objectives:

• emphasize the importance of support services to students enrolled in developmental education classes
• introduce English faculty to support services offered by the Library, Learning Support Center, and Counseling
• offer strategies for making meaningful connections between English 091 students and the support services offered by the Library, Learning Support Center, and Counseling

MSI 2012 team members:
Mary Early (Learning Support Center)
Sylvia Frost (Library)
Marianne Auten (Counseling Division)
Leila Palis (English Division)

What’s available to your students?

• an inviting atmosphere for studying
• The Writing Center
• academic reading coach
• success coach
• grammar workshops
• English language workshops (grammar and listening and speaking)
• MLA and APA handouts and manuals
• punctuation guide handouts
• textbooks on reserve
• computers dedicated to the Writing Center
• laptops for use in the Writing Center
• computers equipped with Grammar Tools and Rosetta Stone

Strategies to make meaningful connections:

• offer extra credit for attending one or more of the workshops; consider offering extra credit to nonnative speakers for attending the Englih language grammar workshops
• encourage students to work with a writing tutor to focus on specific areas of grammar/punctuation
• take class on a tour of the LSC or request a classroom visit from an LSC staff member
• have students either write about the services offered in the LSC (definition paragraph) or compare and contrast the services offered in the LSC with those offered in the library or counseling; consider offering extra credit to students who visit the services and interview a faculty or staff member (comparison/contrast paragraph)

Buxton Library
E Building
602-787-7215
paradisevalley.edu/ibrary

paradisevalley.libguides.com/dev_ed

Counseling Division
KSC 1st Floor
602-787-6540
paradisevalley.edu/counseling

Learning Support Center
E Building
602-787-7180
paradisevalley.edu/lsc

What’s available to your students?

• career, personal, academic, and crisis counseling
• AWARE club (for returning adults)
• 6 free Lifelong Learning Seminars offered each semester on a variety of topics
• credit classes in eliminating self-defeating behavior, stress management, women in transition, strategies for college success, and career exploration
• 1, 2, or 3-credit internships
• classroom presentations on study strategies, time management, goal setting, career exploration, stress management, and developing a growth mindset

Strategies to make meaningful connections:

• offer extra credit for attending one or more of the Life Long Learning seminars offered each semester
• have students contrast two careers of interest; offer extra credit to students who visit career counseling (contrast paragraph)
• choose one of the topics available for classroom presentation and use it as the topic for one of the required paragraphs
• have students either write about the services offered in counseling (definition paragraph) or compare and contrast the services offered in counseling with those offered in the library or the LSC; consider offering extra credit to students who visit the services and interview a faculty or staff member (comparison/contrast paragraph)

What's available for your students?

• optimal atmosphere for studying
• textbooks on reserve
• helpful librarians; faculty can consult with Lili Kang to develop a research guide for their classes, and schedule library instruction in the library classroom
• leisure reading, short stories, and popular movie collections
• helpful databases: ARTstor, Films on Demand, Library Catalog, PowerSpeak Languages

Strategies to make meaningful connections:

• take students to the library to view the Buxton Art Collection; have them either describe one piece (descriptive paragraph) or compare or contrast two pieces (comparison/contrast paragraph)
• take students to the library to find a book with a title that describes an important event in their life; have them tell the story of the event, relating it to the title they chose (narrative paragraph)
• have students access ARTstor and either describe one piece (descriptive paragraph) or compare or contrast two pieces (comparison/contrast paragraph)
• have students either write about the services offered in the library (definition paragraph) or compare and contrast the services offered in the library with those offered in counseling or the LSC; consider offering extra credit to students who visit the services and interview a faculty or staff member (comparison/contrast paragraph)