Coastal Bend College is committed to Guided Pathways Essential Practices
Clarify paths to student
end goals
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Simplify students’
choices with default program maps developed by faculty and advisors
that show students a clear pathway to completion, further education and
employment in fields of importance to the region.
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Establish transfer
pathways through alignment of pathway courses and expected learning
outcomes with transfer institutions, to optimize applicability of community
college credits to university majors.
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Align high school
pathways (endorsements), including dual credit courses and student
learning outcomes with community college academic or career and technology
certificates and degree programs.
Help students choose and
enter a pathway
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Bridge K12 to
higher education by assuring early remediation in the final year of high
school, including a HB5 College Preparatory Course, jointly designed by high
school and community college instructors, that accelerates remediation of basic
prerequisite skills of community college pathways.
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Redesign traditional
remediation as an “on-ramp” to a program of study, which helps students
explore academic and career options from eighth grade through the beginning of
their college experience, aligns math and other foundation skills coursework
with a student’s program of study, and integrates and contextualizes
instruction to build academic and non-academic foundation skills throughout the
high school and college level curriculum, particularly in program “gateway”
courses.
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Provide accelerated
remediation to help very poorly prepared students succeed in college-level
courses as soon as possible.
Help students stay on
path
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Support students through
a strong advising process, embedded and ongoing in the high
school-to-college-to-career pathway experience asupported by appropriate technology,
to help students make informed choices, strengthen clarity about transfer and
career opportunities at the end of their chosen college path, ensure they
develop an academic plan with predictable schedules, monitor their progress,
and intervene when they go off track.
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Embed academic and
non-academic supports throughout students’ programs to promote student
learning and persistence. Embed supports throughout students’
programs to promote student learning and persistence.
Ensure that students are
learning
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Establish
program-level learning outcomes aligned with the requirements for
success in employment and further education in a given field and apply the
results of learning outcomes assessment to improve the effectiveness of
instruction across high school, community college, and university programs.
·
Integrate group
projects, internships, and other applied learning experiences to enhance
instruction and student success in courses across programs of study.
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Ensure incorporation
of effective teaching practice, especially practice that promotes student
engagement, throughout the pathways.
Program Maps (Coming Soon)
Resources:
TexasAssociation of Community Colleges
American Association of Community Colleges
Texas Pathways Model
The Movement Toward Pathways
Guided Pathways Implementation Graphic