Term:
Spring 2016
Description:
Description:
The ACES (Achieving in
College, Ensuring Success)
Identity Development Workshop was held on April 30, 2016 at Mt. San Antonio
College. My cohort mates Giovanni
Rodriguez and Highlong Kay and I collaborated with ACES staff (Diana Felix,
Lynn Wang and Elizabeth Estevez) to provide workshops that help students, in
this TRIO Student Support Services program, examine their identities, their own
resilience and identify resources and networks that have helped them overcome
class, social, academic, and cultural challenges in higher education. The
workshops drew from Yosso’s (2005) theory of Community and Cultural Wealth and
Chickering and Reisser’s (1993) Seven Vectors of Identity Development to guide the process.
Learning Outcomes:
SWiBAT apply theories to help serve as a framework for and a guide the workshops
SWiBAT practice their facilitation
skills by collaborating with staff from ACES
Assessment Rubric:
Advanced
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Competent
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Basic
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Needs Improvement
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SLO #1
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Student was able to apply theories in the workshops, and synthesize
them. Student was able to use the theories to help guide discussion with ACES
students. Student was able to relate
how the information could be applied to their work currently and in the
future as a student affairs educator.
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Student was able to apply theories in the workshops, and synthesize
them. Student was able to use the theories to help guide discussion with ACES
students.
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Student was able to apply theories in the workshops, but used
them independently from each other and did not synthesize.
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Student was unable to apply theories in the workshops.
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SLO #2
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Student practice their facilitation skills by collaborating with
staff from ACES and meeting to practice prior to the event. Student worked
with cohort mates and ACES staff to delegate facilitation of workshops.
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Student practice their facilitation skills by collaborating with
staff from ACES. Student worked with cohort mates and ACES staff to delegate
facilitation of workshops.
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Student practice their facilitation skills by collaborating with
staff from ACES.
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Student practice their facilitation skills on their own.
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Evidence:
Reflection:
I was
approached by my cohort mate, Giovanni Rodriguez, about this program and to help
facilitate series of workshops for ACES students. Immediately said yes to the
opportunity. I was a great opportunity for me to work with other Mt. SAC
students aside from Associated Students leaders who I have been working with
closely for my fieldwork. I was also a great way to utilize the knowledge and
skills I have gained over the past two years being in the Master of Science in
Higher Education program at CSUF. Gio’s program design that drew from Yosso’s (2005) theory
of Community and Cultural Wealth and Chickering and Reisser’s (1993) Seven Vectors of Identity Development really resonated with me
because this is precisely how our cohort approached working with the community
of Maywood for the Maywood Education Fair in 2015 as a framework to take an asset-based perspective in working with students. I was confident in helping
facilitate some of the workshops because the work I have done as a graduate
assistant for the Diversity Initiatives and Resource Centers and the Titan
Dreamers Resource Center. Facilitating the workshops for the ACES students
reminded me that I have gained a lot of knowledge and experience which I will
continue to build upon as I transition to a full-time position. Facilitating workshops
that had the students create journey maps and participate in identity corners,
enabled us utilize Yosso’s (2005) theory of Community and Cultural Wealth to highlight the students’ assets/capitals
(e.g. aspirational, social resistant and navigational capitals) that have
helped them persist and thrive in higher education. I was really impressed by
the level of vulnerability the students, the other facilitators and I showed in
fully engaging with the activities and discussions. I would rate myself Competent
for SLO #1.
I
really enjoyed facilitating with my cohort mates and the ACES staff. Because I
was only available on Thursdays and Fridays at Mt. SAC and my cohort mates have
hectic schedules, we were unable to meet multiple times to prepare. We initially
talked about it weeks prior to the event and again the day before. Fortunately,
we have all facilitated and well acquainted with the various workshops and are
very comfortable facilitating at this point. I really do believe that the
program and our various graduate assistantships prepared us well. We talked
about which workshops we would be taking a lead on and divided tasks amongst us
and practiced on our own. We met with the ACES staff the early in the morning of
the event to go over the agenda. It really was a great team effort. We connected
quickly and agreed to be vulnerable ourselves to help encourage our students to
do the same and be engaged and think critically about themselves and others.
The students were very engaged and let themselves be vulnerable. The
discussions were very rich and went really deep. Some of the students shared that
they initially thought they were not going to share. However, because of the vulnerability
that we showed and the challenge and support that we provided, enabled them to
be vulnerable themselves. I would rate myself Competent for SLO #2.