Seattle Central Community College
Learning Outcomes
Seattle Central students will achieve personal and professional goals in diverse and multicultural settings because they are able to:
Think: analyze, create, and reflect to address and appreciate challenges and opportunities
Collaborate: work effectively with others to learn, complete tasks, and pursue common goals
Communicate: exchange ideas and information through intentional listening, speaking, signing, reading, writing, or presenting
Connect: apply knowledge and skills to solve problems
Continue Learning: self-evaluate and act to improve knowledge and skills
Think
Analyze, create, and reflect to address and appreciate challenges and opportunities
- Gather, interpret, and evaluate information
- Identify problems and issues
- Formulate hypotheses
- Generate and implement creative strategies
- Create and appreciate aesthetic work
- Evaluate their thinking process
Possible Instructional Activities
- Collect, evaluate, and analyze valid and/or relevant information and data
- Differentiate among fact, opinion, hearsay, etc., and evaluate the validity of different sources of information
- Classify, organize, prioritize, and/or synthesize information and data
- Interpret and analyze symbolic, quantitative, and/or graphical information
- Develop a logical process for solving problems
- Apply knowledge and learning to various contexts
- Experiment with different media and/or multiple intelligences (linguistic, mathematical, musical, visual, naturalist, kinesthetic, etc.) to generate ideas, solutions, original works, alternative approaches, etc.
- Reflect on their knowledge, understanding, skills, and critical thinking process
- Recognize and welcome constructive criticism that contributes to effective self-evaluation and continual growth and improvement
Collaborate
Work effectively with others to learn, complete tasks, and pursue common goals
- Identify problems and create action plans
- Apply understanding and knowledge of group process
- Pursue and critically evaluate different social and cultural perspectives
- Manage conflict productively
- Engage in community and civic life
Possible Instructional Activities
- Participate in service-learning to participate and observe groups in community meetings or events
- Make group decisions in learning/problem solving activities according to differing cultural and/or social contexts
- Complete group project assignments or problem-solving activities that require group interactions and decision making
- Participate in a variety of group activities: panel presentations, seminars, forums, on-line discussions (both synchronous and asynchronous)
- Try out different roles within a group, e.g., leader, organizer, recorder, harmonizer, etc. (For example, members on sports or health teams could assume positions/roles that they don’t normally assume.)
- Demonstrate and develop activities that examine effective group dynamics, e.g., how to listen actively, how to negotiate effectively
- Analyze ethical or cultural issues and dilemmas in case studies
- Write reflection pieces or journal entries regarding the successes and challenges they faced in working as a member of a group. What role did the student play and what responsibility did the student take?
- Participate in a variety of group activities or take on different roles within a group as a graded component of assignments and tests
- Complete surveys or questionnaires at the end of the quarter that target students feelings and thoughts about the development of their group participation and interactions skills
Communicate
Exchange ideas and information through intentional listening, speaking, signing, reading, writing, or presenting
- Determine the purpose and context for communicating
- Organize and present information purposefully
- Seek feedback and revise to enhance effectiveness
- Attend to conventions of communication to minimize barriers
- Consider perspectives, experiences, and cultural differences to develop understanding
Possible Instructional Activities
- Draft, revise, and edit essays
- Summarize, outline, and analyze texts
- Develop PowerPoint presentations
- Draft, practice, revise, and re-present speeches
- Review videos of signs; practice vocabulary
- Attend community events to explain the cultural context of information
- Practice summarizing others’ ideas
Connect
Apply knowledge and skills to solve problems
- Select and use theoretical models, quantitative and qualitative techniques, information sources, and technology tools
- Identify and solve problems using logical strategies and evaluate results
- Gather data from various reliable sources and assess the validity and relevancy
- Critically evaluate solutions using research-based evidence
- Use technology and apply to a wide range of practices, fields, and industries
Possible Instructional Activities
- Learn role in students’ specific field through active listening, communicating, and collaborating
- Participate in service-learning to learn by interacting with the community about current problems and issues
- Use appropriate tools and technologies to complete all or part of an assignment
- Address and solve current problems in small groups, seminars, experiential exercises, role plays and peer interviews
- Complete relevant field projects and field assignments
- Participate in performance enhancing projects at outside seminars within the scope of study, or in coordination with community leaders and organizations
Continue Learning
Self-evaluate and act to improve knowledge and skills
- Analyze own performance and revise to improve
- Transfer learning by applying it in other contexts
- Increase knowledge by identifying gaps and acting to fill them
- Seek mentors and share knowledge with others
- Provide and receive feedback
Possible Instructional Activities
- Prepare drafts which are then evaluated, discussed and redone to create final version
- Complete assignments or activities that help students recognize gaps in their knowledge and develop strategies to fill those gaps
- Reflect on learning experiences, such as service-learning activities, and relate those experiences to the learning outcomes for the course
- Create portfolios that are revised over time, creating multiple versions of products to demonstrate student self-evaluation of both process and product as well as response to instructor/peer feedback
- Self-evaluate their work/performance and incorporate feedback from others to improve a second draft/performance. Identify and define one thing they want to improve. Subsequently do a second assignment/performance demonstrating their ability to incorporate that new learning