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Important Links
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Letters Department:
Developmental Skills Initiative
The Letters Department has a long history of serving the needs of developmental students in its Reading, Writing, ESL, and Special Education classes. Beyond instructional programs, developmental students receive support from numerous campus services including the Career Center, Counseling, DSPS, EOPS, Retention Services, and the Writing Center.
In an effort to serve these students even more effectively, the Letters Department formed a Developmental Skills Subcommittee in 2005 to identify and study developmental skills teaching methods and support strategies. The committee then developed a set of researched-based best practices to further support students in pre-transfer level reading and writing courses.
These twenty-one recommendations currently drive the work of the Developmental Skills committee. Please visit the links for details of our recommendations and progress.
For more information, contact Mary Gross, Coordinator of the Developmental Skills Initiative & Lead Instructor, Credit ESL; or Dara Perales, Lead Instructor, Developmental English; or Susan Herrmann, Chair, Letters Department.
Announcement and Updates
Upcoming Events :
- Mid-Semester ESL/ENG 802, 803 Portfolio Read: Friday, October 23th, 1:00-4:00 Room OC3511.
- Final Portfolio ESL/ENG 802, 803 Portfolio Read: Friday, December 11th, 9-1:00 Room OC3508.
Prior Events :
- Developmental Skills Team Meeting: Tuesday, August 18th, 11-1 Room OC3516. Click here for the meeting's PowerPoint.
- Mid-Semester ESL/ENG 802, 803 Portfolio Read: Friday, March 13th, 1:00-4:00 pm, Room OC3511.
- Final ESL/ENG 802, 803 Portfolio Read: Friday, May 15th, 9:00-1:00, Room OC3609 .
- Letters Department Workshop: “Teaching Reading in College Writing Classrooms: Effective Approaches for Integrating Reading and Writing Dr. Sugie Goen-Salter, Associate Professor and Co-Coordinator of SFSU’s Certificate in the Teaching of Post-Secondary Reading Program. Friday, January 30th, 9-4 Aztlan A & B. Click here for brief info on Dr. Goen-Salter. Click here for Dr. Goen-Salter's PowerPoint and here for her handouts.
- On Thursday, January 15th, Teresa Guinon and Kelly Hagen presented a Flex workshop:
“Portfolio Assessment: Where We Have Been and Where We Plan To Go. Click here for their PowerPoint.
- Final ESL/ENG 802, 803 Portfolio Read: Friday, December 12th, 9-1. Room 3511.
- ESL Exit Essay: Friday, December 5th, 1-4pm. Room 3511.
- Developmental Skills Team Meeting--Portfolio Training: Friday, November 14th, 11-1. Room 3515. Click here for the PowerPoint and Handouts.
- Mid-Semester ESL/ENG 802, 803 Portfolio Read: Friday, October 17th, 1-4pm. Room 3511.
- Developmental Skills Faculty workshop on THURSDAY, August 21 from 3-5 p.m. in 3511. Click for Mary and Dara's PowerPoint and Mary's 3-Week Birth Order Unit Plan
- ESL Exit Essay & Assessment Workshop: May 9, 9-12
- Final 803 Portfolio Read & Workshop: May 16, 9-3
- Letters Workshop w/ Developmental Writing Expert Robin Ozz: April 11 and 12. View Robin's PowerPoints Day 1 and Day 2.
- Letters Spring Conference: April 4, 9-2
- Midsemester 803 Portfolio Read & Workshop: March 14, 9-12
- Metacognition Strategies Workshop, January 2008
- Portfolio Training & Midterm and Final Handouts Workshop, December 2007
- Letters Mid-Semester Department meeting: October 5, 1-4 in 3609
- Developmental Skills Workshop: Lives on the Boundary book discussion, October 19, 1-3 in 3510
- Thursday, August 16 from 2-4 p.m. in 3510: Developmental Skills Faculty Meeting & Workshop: Our Students' Perspective
- On Friday April 20, approximately 75 high school and community college English teachers gathered for the annual Letters Spring Conference. Get a glimpse of the day and view PowerPoints from the Keynote Presentation by Professor Mark Roberge as well as other featured workshops
- On Saturday April 21, MiraCosta Letters faculty gathered for more in-depth training and learned strategies to assist language minority students in our developmental and transfer-level composition courses. View the Reading and Writing Strategies shared!
- On Friday March 16, John Kirwan and Mary Gross facilitated a Faculty Workshop "Exploring the Scope of MiraCosta's Writing Series: 802 to 803 to 100." Letters faculty teaching these courses collaborated to discuss course goals/objectives, typical tasks at each level, and reviewed sample student work. This workshop became the springboard for a Spring Conference workshop in which we shared our work with our high school colleagues.
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