INFUSING READING APPRENTICESHIP IN FIRST YEAR SEMINARS: TALKING TO TEXT IS TALKING SUCCESS

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1 INFUSING READING APPRENTICESHIP IN FIRST YEAR SEMINARS: TALKING TO TEXT IS TALKING SUCCESS Feb 6, 2013 Trish Schade, Northern Essex Community College Nika Hogan, Pasadena City College

2 Do you recognize these students?

3 WestEd s Strategic Literacy Initiative (SLI) A professional development and research organization focusing on improving academic literacy in diverse populations of adolescents and post-secondary students using Reading Apprenticeship, a research-based instructional framework. 3

4 Reading Apprenticeship A partnership of expertise between the teacher and students, drawing on what content area teachers know and do as skilled discipline-based readers and on learners unique and often underestimated strengths 4

5 Dimensions of Reading Apprenticeship 5

6 Where is Reading Apprenticeship Implemented? In developmental education courses and FYE programs that help students develop the self-awareness, habits, and tools they need to become more engaged and effective readers and learners. In transfer level academic courses and career and technical education, helping students develop habits of mind and strategies for understanding content area texts and discourse

7 READING APPRENTICESHIP IN COMMUNITY COLLEGES 600 faculty from more than 30 disciplines and 76 California Community Colleges have participated in the Reading Apprenticeship Project Nationally, since 2011, 500 participants from 70 colleges have enrolled in the online course alone

8 Student Outcomes More reading Increased engagement and confidence as readers and learners Development of a range of strategies to support comprehension Higher levels of interaction between and among teachers and students Increased retention 8

9 Infusing Reading Apprenticeship in FYE programs Northern Essex CC revised existing College Success Seminar as an AtD strategy

10 Northern Essex CC College Success Seminar (CSS) AtD FYE Curriculum Team Met and revised existing class using Reading Apprenticeship College Knowledge Strengths-based teaching and learning Traditional FYE study skills such as time management, test taking etc.

11 Faculty Development Background: As a leadership project, I designed a Staff and Faculty Inquiry Group on Reading. We sent a team of 4 faculty out to WestEd for the 3 day Community College workshop. All of these faculty later became instructors for the CSS pilot.

12 Faculty Development In 2011 & 2012 CSS faculty attended a 3 day workshop, part of it dedicated to RA strategies such as talk to text, QAR, double entry notes, and think alouds. In the May of 2011 the Staff and Faculty Inquiry Group (SFIG) hosted a college-wide RA workshop In May of 2012 the SFIG hosted a statewide RA workshop

13 NECC CSS Results: Grades Developmental Course Completion (A-C) Fall 2010 Fall 2011 Spring 2011 Spring 2012 Fall 2012 CSS completers (n=128,54,136,40, 316) 82% 79% 89% 80% 89% Assessed but did not take (n=98,62,116,78, 325) 72% 59% 72% 81% 62%

14 NECC Results: Retention All Students CSS Completers (A-C) New Students Fall 2010 to Spring % 93.5% New Students Fall 2010 to Fall % 72.2% New Students Fall 2011 to Spring % 96.9% New, Full-time, Degree-seeking, Students Fall 2010 to Spring % 91.7% New, Full-time, Degree-seeking, Students Fall 2010 to Fall % 69.4% New, Full-time, Degree-seeking, Students Fall 2011 to Spring % 96.7%

15 Qualitative data regarding the students perceptions of their learning and specifically using Reading Apprenticeship Strategies Fall 2010

16 More student feedback on using talk to text Spring 2011

17 Fall 2012: Noel-Levitz Student Survey Results Pre/Mid-Year (Post)

18 Students in Fall 2012 CSS talk about using Talk to Text

19 Pasadena City College Reading Apprenticeship and an authentic First Year Experience The story of College 1

20 Think Aloud Helps students to notice and say when they are confused, and use each other as resources for making meaning Helps you to practice making your thinking visible, so you can model effective ways of reading texts in your discipline for students Helps to give names to the cognitive strategies that we use to comprehend text Helps to notice text structures and how we navigate various genres to build confidence, range, and stamina 20

21 Think Aloud with Institute Syllabus

22 Take Turns Thinking Aloud in Pairs While the first person Thinks Aloud while reading the institute syllabus, the other person takes notes. After two minutes, we will ask partners to switch roles the second person Thinks Aloud while the other takes notes

23 Introduce your partner and tell us one interesting thing he or she said... About the CONTENT of the syllabus: what strikes you, what worries you, what excites you, what questions do you have About the PROCESS of reading the syllabus: what did your partner do with the text that surprised you? What do we notice about the way experts read a syllabus?

24 Syllabus Debrief What questions surfaced about the institute or College 1 from the syllabus discussions? Classroom application: what are some ways that we can apprentice students into reading a syllabus effectively (making meaning from it)?

25 Our Story of Hope How we used Reading Apprenticeship to change the culture on our campus AND How we used a change movement to finally implement Reading Apprenticeship

26 PCC by the Numbers 22,671 students Hispanic: 42.8% Asian/Pacific Islander: 23.5% White: 17.1% African American: 5.5% Continuing Students: 67.7% First-Time Students: 16.9%

27 The Slump Administration that stifled creativity and professional development Faculty arrogance about a need for professional development

28 5537 new students in years later Developmental Education N = 3,408 12% earned an AA/AS degree 5% earned a certificate 25% transferred 69% no discoverable milestone Non-Developmental Education N = 2,129 10% earned an AA/AS degree 4% earned a certificate 41% transferred 55% no discoverable milestone

29 Reading Apprenticeship Principles Extensive Reading Authentic Intellectual Engagement for ALL One Book, One College Speaker Series, Professional Learning College courses for college students FYE seminar ( College 1 )

30 Early FYE Data FYE students had higher engagement with faculty and peers and higher participation in campus activities. FYE students had a greater sense of security in their attitude toward math relative to the comparison group. There was a statistically significant increase in engagement with faculty from fall 2011 to spring 2012.

31 Student Responses In this class, I vividly remember having to read this boring article on making kids believe that they could be smart. We were instructed to read it, annotate, and speak to the reading. We were also given a similar assignment with a partner and read portions aloud while speaking to the reading. Here we are today, and last week we did that same thing with the same article from week one, although this time I see the true meaning behind it. A student can read a dictionary or an entire book specialized on the color blue... but what does it mean if they don t fully understand or connect with the reading? Absolutely nothing. We were taught a valuable thing throughout College 1, not only to read, but to understand and be able to use it in our other classes and in life.

32 Faculty Value Narratives I have too many meaningful experiences!!!!!!!!!!!! I will start with the top dog: the College 1 Summer Prep brought together the most wonderful, funky, passionate professors I ve had the pleasure of working with. I learned so much, connected in a trans-disciplinary way, and felt part of a community. Like many of our students, I didn t immediately understand the think-pairshare and other group activities but quickly learned how they built community. Working with my peers to truly impact student success felt wonderful and renewed my sense of why I m teaching.

33 What we actually accomplished A de-segregated First Year Experience in Pasadena A cross-disciplinary desire for further professional development in academic literacy A campus reading together (for real!)

34 We welcome your questions and comments! Trish Schade: Nika Hogan: Ra.3csn.org Wested.org/ra

Reading Apprenticeship: An Introduction

1 Tab 2 - Intro to Reading Appr. - Page 1 Reading Apprenticeship: An Introduction Reading Apprenticeship (RA) is an approach to reading instruction that helps students develop the knowledge, strategies,