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Through this course, our goal is to create a “learning community” of faculty, scholars, advisors and administrators. These individuals are drawn from a variety of departments, so they mirror, in many respects, a typical classroom of first-year college students who may or may not know each other before they enter the training.

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Transformative Teaching Academy ENGLISH 1301

Module 1: Asset Based Approach

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Chapter 1: Getting Started

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Building Comunidad (Community)

Virtual Gallery Walk is an active learning strategy where students move in groups or individually through different stations where questions and prompts are posted for students to share knowledge and work collaboratively. This exercise, a “gallery walk” icebreaker, is called “Conocimiento” and is used in Catch the Next, which fosters dialogue and understanding among the participants. This activity also includes questions to facilitate setting norms in the classroom. Open the link to participate in this activity. Please make sure your name appears in the post, so you can receive proper credit for your work.

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About the teacher

Anna Alaniz

Dr. Anna B. Alaniz has twenty-five years of teaching experience, sixteen in higher education in Developmental Education, English, Education, and Teaching Supervision. Dr. Alaniz earned her doctorate in Texas A&M Kingsville in Educational Leadership with a minor in English in 2017, her Masters in Education/Reading in 2006 from UTRGV, and her Bachelor's in Interdisciplinary Bilingual/Bicultural Education in 2001 from UTRGV. Alaniz's passion is helping students who struggle academically to reach their educational goals. She has been with Catch the Next for 12 years as a consultant and 4 years as Director of Professional Development, a job that fills her heart. She enjoys providing professional development to higher education professors on asset-based pedagogy, authentic cariño pedagogy, culturally responsive pedagogy, andragogy, validation theory and all the components of the ASCENDER Program.