Eric Salahub | Kerri Mitchell
We know that our underrepresented minoritized students often have what is sometimes called a success gap when they show lower pass rates compared to other students. This session will invite participants to reconceive this success gap as an opportunity gap that might be narrowed or eliminated, even in one semester. Come to our session to learn more about the Active Learning paradigm and the promising research into how high-intensity Active Learning has a disproportionately positive impact on URM student success including on exam scores and course pass rates. You will work collaboratively with colleagues to think about how our traditional teaching and learning paradigm may drive opportunity gaps. We hope you will leave the session having accepted the challenge of making changes to your own course design and pedagogy to try to close those opportunity gaps. Finally, you will discover that Active Learning strategies are universally beneficial to students, so equity-focused efforts at changing course design and approaches to teaching can have a broad positive impact on all students.
Eric Salahub has been teaching Philosophy at FRCC since 1999 and has devoted much of his time over the past 10-years working with colleagues as an Instructional Coach.
Kerri Mitchell has been teaching English at FRCC since 2005 and has also worked as an Instructional Coach. Eric and Kerri co-developed FRCC’s Active Learning Institute and have facilitated the work of more than 130 teachers over the past 5-years. Both Eric and Kerri have participated in a number of equity-related professional development opportunities as well.