A Pedagogy of Preparation: Helping Underprepared Students Succeed in College-Level Coursework in Community Colleges
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Tamara Bertrand Jones; Xinye Hu; Amanda N. Nix; Shouping Hu; Rebecca L. Brower; Hollie Daniels
- Source
- Innovative Higher Education
- Subject
- Academic preparation
Higher education
Legislation
Scaffolding
Article
Education
0502 economics and business
Pedagogy
ComputingMilieux_COMPUTERSANDEDUCATION
050207 economics
Philosophy of education
Remedial education
GeneralLiterature_REFERENCE(e.g.,dictionaries,encyclopedias,glossaries)
Instruction
business.industry
Community colleges
05 social sciences
050301 education
Collaboration
Work (electrical)
Coursework
Developmental education
Psychology
business
0503 education
- Language
- English
- ISSN
- 1573-1758
0742-5627
This paper presents an overall educational philosophy of working with students underprepared for college-level work, which we term “a pedagogy of preparation.” We consider how instructors scaffolded instruction to foster college readiness in students who were now able to enroll in college-level work regardless of academic preparation after state-level legislation (SB 1720) that dramatically altered the delivery of developmental education in the Florida College System (FCS). We also consider how collaboration increased among campus personnel after the legislation to foster college readiness in students underprepared for college-level work.