A Successful New Model For Developmental Writing: An Introduction To The Accelerated Learning Program

A Successful New Model For Developmental Writing: An Introduction To The Accelerated Learning Program Tuesday, November 13, 3:00-4:30pm EDT Online webinar Host: Innovative Educators http://www.innovativeeducators.org/product_p/247.htm NOTE: Payment is not required prior to event date. The recording is included and is accessible for one full year. OVERVIEW Across the country, states and individual schools are struggling to improve the success rate of students placed in developmental writing courses. The Accelerated Learning Program (ALP), a co-requisite model that places developmental writers directly into credit English and then provides the developmental course concurrently, is doubling the percentage of students who succeed in passing their developmental writing and credit-level writing courses. In addition, ALP triples the percentage of students who complete the second semester of credit English and has significant positive impact on retention in the following years. This webinar will introduce participants to the basics of ALP, providing a thorough understanding of the model and how its inception fits into the history of developmental education. Participants will also examine data on the outcomes of ALP at the Community College of Baltimore County, discuss why it works, and have a chance to ask questions about the model. OBJECTIVES - Gain an understanding of why developmental education is under so much pressure to innovate - Understand what ALP is and examine data on the success of the program - Explore why ALP produces spectacular results - Analyze the costs of the program - Discover the issues involved in adopting ALP WHO SHOULD ATTEND? - 2 year institutions and 4 year institutions - Vice President of Academic Affairs/Instruction - Dean of Instruction - Faculty (full and part-time) - Advising - Developmental Educators - Registrar WHO IS THE SPEAKER? Peter Adams was educated at the United States Military Academy at West Point and the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Professor Adams has taught at the Community College of Baltimore County (CCBC) for more than 30 years. Over the years, his responsibilities at CCBC have included coordination of the writing program, chairing the college's committee on general education, and chairing the English Department. His publications include the 1994 HarperCollins Concise Handbook for Writers and Connections: A Guide to the Basics of Writing, a Little, Brown text on grammar and punctuation for developmental writers. His article "Basic Writing Revisited," appearing in the Journal of Basic Writing in 1993, has had a major influence on the movement toward mainstreaming basic writers. His "The Accelerated Learning Program: Throwing Open the Gates" appears in the fall 2009 issue of the Journal of Basic Writing. He currently serves on the Executive Boards of the Council on Basic Writing and the Council of Writing Program Administrators. For the past five years, he has directed the Accelerated Learning Program (ALP) at CCBC, which he designed to attempt to improve success rates for students placed in developmental writing courses. ALP has been named Innovative Basic Writing Program of the year by the Council on Basic Writing in 2009 and received the 2010 Diana Hacker TYCA Award for Outstanding Programs in English for Two-Year Colleges. In addition, ALP was the focus of a major study by the Community College Research Center at Columbia, a study that reported, "results suggest that ALP students are more likely than similar non-ALP students to pass English 101 and to take and pass English 102." Enquiries: pam@ieinfo.org Web address: http://www.innovativeeducators.org/product_p/247.htm Sponsored by: Innovative Educators

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