Program Reivew and Planning 2005-2008

PROGRAM REIVEW AND PLANNING 2005-2008

Item 1. Catalog By Division by Discipline

Child, Family and Consumer Sciences

Div. / Discipline / Subj. / Current Courses / Course Titles / Cat#
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 100 / INTRODUCTION TO EARLY CHILDHOOD
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 101 / HEALTH,SAFETY AND NUTRITION FOR TEACHERS OF YOUNG CHILDREN
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 102 / FIRST AID AND CPR FOR TEACHERS OF YOUNG CHILDREN
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 104 / EARLY CHILDHOOD SOCIALIZATION: CHILDREN, FAMILY AND COMMUNITY
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 106 / DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY OF CHILDREN
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 108 / ADVANCED DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY AND OBSERVATION
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 110 / EARLY CHILDHOOD CURRICULUM
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 112 / LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 114 / ART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 116 / SCIENCE AND MATH FOR EARLY CHILDHOOD
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 118 / MUSIC AND MOVEMENT
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 200 / FIELD EXPERIENCE
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 210 / ADMINISTRATION AND SUPERVISION
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 211 / ADVANCED MANAGEMENT FUNCTIONS FOR THE OPERATION OF AN EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 212 / ADULT SUPERVISION IN EARLY CHILDHOOD PROGRAMS
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 220 / INFANT/TODDLER DEVELOPMENT
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 221 / INFANT/TODDLER CURRICULUM
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 230 / SCHOOL-AGE CHILD DEVELOPMENT
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 231 / SCHOOL-AGE CURRICULUM
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 240 / UNDERSTANDING EXCEPTIONAL STUDENTS
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 250 / FAMILY CHILD CARE BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 251 / FAMILY CHILDCARE PROVIDER AND PARENT RELATIONS
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 252 / FAMILY CHILD CARE LICENSING RESOURCES
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 260 / PRINCIPLES OF PARENTING
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 262 / MULTI-LINGUAL AND MULTI-CULTURAL CURRICULUM FOR YOUNG CHILDREN
APPSC / CFCS / CFCS / CFCS 270 / FIRST AID AND CPR FOR TEACHERS OF YOUNG CHILDREN REFRESHER
APPSC / CFCS / NUTR / NUTR 100 / FOUNDATIONS OF NUTRITION

Child, Family and Consumer Sciences

2. STRENGTHS AND CHALLENGES:

Indicate strengths and challenges in such areas as program accomplishments, areas of special endeavors, growth trends, recruitment, placement, distance education, innovative scheduling, relationship to local community and/or other programs and services at the college, and/or grant support activity.

Discuss degrees and special academic qualifications of full-time and part-time faculty in the program and discuss evidence that faculty are staying current in their disciplines and/or instructional methodologies.

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Strengths

JOINT PROGRAM OF INSTRUCTION AND SERVICES

The Child, Family and Consumer Sciences Department house a preschool center and an infant and toddler center.

The centers provide services to 94 children ages 0-5. This allows Child Development students to observe and gain hands on experience working with young children. It allows students to bridge their text book knowledge with real life situations. The centers also provide child care to students in general who meet the enrollment guidelines.

The Department also assists students in processing permit applications to the state.

REVISED CURRICULUM, METHODOLOGY, INSTRUCTIONAL TECHNOLOGY

Course outlines for Early Childhood Education were revised to reflect the new numbering system, to adjust course content, objectives, instructional methodologies, and to match the State Permit Matrix.

The curriculum is structured to guide students into each stage of the permit program.

PROGRAM STANDARDS

The Child, Family and Consumer Sciences Department have established performance standards establishing consistency from course to course, instructor to instructor. It has been useful in briefing new facility, adjunct and Extended Campus faculty and IVC students in general as to the stated expectations that result in a performance-based grade.

SCHEDULING AND MEETING COMMUNITY NEEDS

The Child, Family and Consumer Science Department have established the course scheduling to meet the needs of fulltime as well as part time students. We realize the majority of our students work and thus we offer all of our core courses in both the day and evening.

ADVISORY BOARD

The CFCS Department has very strong Advisory Boards for each of its programs. The Boards are made up of most of the agencies in Imperial County that represent young children or foster youth. An Example of agencies that are represented on our Advisory Boards: Imperial County Office of Education, Imperial County Department of Social Services, CAP Council, Imperial County Probation Department, Betty Jo McNeice Receiving Home, Imperial County ROP, Brawley Union High School, El Centro High School, Head Start, Riverside Migrant Education, March of Dimes, United Families as well as a variety of public and private preschools.

COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT

The Director of the Department as well as the Instructors are members of, or chair several of the committees throughout the Imperial County that represent young children and those that work with young children.

Early Care and Education

Imperial County Child Development Training Consortia

CAEYC

Imperial County Education Committee

IVROP Advisory

Cap Council

Cal Safe

NAEYC

The Director is also a commissioner for Imperial County Children and Families First Commission, a member of the State CDTC Advisory, and the coordinator for Imperial County State Child Development Training Consortia.

She is also a co-chair for the Child Development Conference that is held at IVC each year.

The staff also recognizes the requirement the State has for permit holders for professional growth and often provides workshops throughout the county.

STATE REVIEW

The Preschool and the Infant Centers undergo a State program review every 3 years and a self review yearly.

The Food Program undergoes a review every other year.

The Foster, Kinship and Independent Living Programs are reviewed by the Chancellors office.

Challenges

FACILITIES

Adequate classrooms and offices for increased course offerings require more classrooms on the main campus as well as Extended Campus sites. Our Department is usually assigned leftover classrooms although the class sizes are usually 35 or more.

STUDENT PREPARATION

Students often lack command of the English language and lack the level of reading comprehension needed to utilize the texts.

Students are not prepared for college-level work. The program has a diverse range in ages and study and work habits often need to be learned or rediscovered.

HIGHER EDUCATION

Limited availability of Bachelors and Masters Degree Programs.

#3 STUDENT DEMOGRAPHICS

Child, Family & Consumer Sciences Division
Child, Family & Consumer Sciences Discipline
Demographic Information
Age (in %)
( Table 1 )
Term / < 20 / 20 - 24 / 25 - 29 / 30 - 49 / > or = 50
Program / IVC / Program / IVC / Program / IVC / Program / IVC / Program / IVC
Fall 02 / 10.5 / 25.6 / 23.0 / 29.3 / 15.5 / 12.4 / 44.7 / 28.0 / 6.3 / 4.6
Fall 03 / 8.6 / 27.8 / 23.4 / 30.6 / 13.4 / 11.8 / 47.9 / 25.7 / 6.7 / 4.1
Fall 04 / 18.2 / 39.8 / 25.4 / 33.6 / 13.4 / 8.7 / 36.8 / 15.7 / 6.2 / 2.3
Avg. / 12.4 / 31.1 / 23.9 / 31.2 / 14.1 / 11.0 / 43.1 / 23.1 / 6.4 / 3.7

The ages of the CFCS program students vary from under 20 to 50 with the majority falling in the 30 to 49 bracket. — typically representing students who are returning to school or those who are changing careers.

Child, Family & Consumer Sciences Division
Child, Family & Consumer Sciences Discipline
Demographic Information
Ethnicity (in percentage)
( Table 2 )
Term / Asian / Afro American / Hispanic / Native American / White / Other
Program / IVC / Program / IVC / Program / IVC / Program / IVC / Program / IVC / Program / IVC
Fall 02 / 1.3 / 2.0 / 0.3 / 1.4 / 90.1 / 86.5 / 0.7 / 0.4 / 6.9 / 9.6 / 0.7 / 0.2
Fall 03 / 0.8 / 2.0 / 0.3 / 1.5 / 92.5 / 86.7 / 0.0 / 0.4 / 6.1 / 9.3 / 0.3 / 0.3
Fall 04 / 1.0 / 1.9 / 0.3 / 1.3 / 91.0 / 87.6 / 0.2 / 0.4 / 7.0 / 8.5 / 0.2 / 0.2
Avg. / 1.0 / 2.0 / 0.3 / 1.4 / 91.2 / 86.9 / 0.3 / 0.4 / 6.7 / 9.1 / 0.4 / 0.2

The majority ethnicity of the CFCS Program is Hispanic, exceeding the campus percentage.

Child, Family & Consumer Sciences Division
Child, Family & Consumer Sciences Discipline
Demographic Information
Gender (Table 3)
Term / Head Count / Male (%) / Female (%)
Program / IVC / Program / IVC / Program / IVC
Fall 02 / 304 / 8432 / 2.6 / 37.3 / 97.4 / 62.7
Fall 03 / 359 / 8399 / 4.7 / 37.4 / 95.3 / 62.6
Fall 04 / 402 / 8132 / 5.5 / 38.3 / 94.5 / 61.7
Average / 355 / 8321 / 4.3 / 37.7 / 95.7 / 62.3

The gender percentages of students taking CFCS classes are overwhelmingly female.

Child, Family & Consumer Sciences Division
Child, Family & Consumer Sciences Discipline
Demographic Information
Primary Language (Table 4)
Term / English% / Other%
Program / IVC / Program / IVC
Fall 02 / 50.7 / 60.0 / 49.3 / 40.0
Fall 03 / 47.9 / 61.2 / 52.1 / 38.8
Fall 04 / 51.7 / 63.1 / 48.3 / 36.9
Average / 50 / 61.4 / 49.9 / 38.6

The primary language percentages show the students in the CFCS Program are almost equal between English and Other.

Child, Family & Consumer Sciences Division
Child Family & Consumer Sciences Discipline
Demographic Information
Residence (in percentage)
( Table 5 )
Term / Brawley / Calexico / Calipatria / El Centro / Holtville / Imperial / Winterhaven / Other
Pgm / IVC / Pgm / IVC / Pgm / IVC / Pgm / IVC / Pgm / IVC / Pgm / IVC / Pgm / IVC / Pgm / IVC
Fall 02 / 14.5 / 13.7 / 32.9 / 29.8 / 2.6 / 2.2 / 29.9 / 33.8 / 7.2 / 5.2 / 6.6 / 7.6 / 0.0 / 0.0 / 6.3 / 7.7
Fall 03 / 17.3 / 13.3 / 29.8 / 30.1 / 1.9 / 2.1 / 29.8 / 32.9 / 7.0 / 5.4 / 6.4 / 7.9 / 0.0 / 0.1 / 7.8 / 8.2
Fall 04 / 15.2 / 13.0 / 31.3 / 30.8 / 2.5 / 2.2 / 30.8 / 32.0 / 7.7 / 5.2 / 7.0 / 8.4 / 0.0 / 0.2 / 5.7 / 8.2
Avg. / 15.7 / 13.3 / 31.3 / 30.2 / 2.3 / 2.2 / 30.2 / 32.9 / 7.3 / 5.3 / 6.7 / 8.0 / 0.0 / 0.1 / 6.6 / 8.0

IVC and the CFCS Program population percentages for local residence appear to be consistent.

[ADD ITEMS 4 ON GRADE DISTRIBUTION AND RETENTION, DATA FROM INST. RESEARCHER. ]

5. INSTITUTIONAL STUDENT OUTCOMES: (Student Services completes to Include in Institutional Summary Only))

From the information provided through the National Students Clearinghouse Database:

Discuss how many students transfer to a four-year institution.

If a two-year applied science program, discuss how well the institution prepares students for a job.

Imperial Valley College has engaged in a systematic process to address the implementation of Student Learning Outcomes (SLO’s). During the 2004-2005 Academic Year, there have been four (4) work sessions at IVC to introduce the concept of SLO’s. These work sessions afforded individuals the opportunity to contribute to the development of Institutional SLO’s. As the concept of SLO’s continues to evolve at IVC, there will be the development of SLO’s to address institutional departmental, program, course, and learning activity levels of implementation. Under the leadership of the IVC Academic Senate, faculty developed and have proposed five (5) Institutional SLO’s, these are:

Personal Responsibility
Global/Multicultural awareness
Communication Skills
Information Literacy
Analytical/Critical Thinking

The proposed IVC SLO’s will dovetail very well with our present curriculum, sets of competencies, and outcome expectation in Child, Family & Consumer Sciences. The Secretary’s Commission on Achieving Necessary Skills (SCANS) 2000 reported the essential mastery of very similar desirable COMPTENCIES to meet workplace expectations, these are:

Resources
Interpersonal Skills
Information
Systems, and
Technology

In addition, SCANS identified the desirable FOUNDATION as being:

Basic Academic Skills
Thinking Skills, and
Personal Qualities

Within the Child, Family & Consumer Sciences program, evidence of competency mastery and SLO’s attainment will be through the evaluation and assessment of the comprehensive and sequential set of learning activities in the classroom and laboratory environment as well as outside assignments.

[ASK RE ITEM 6 ON STUDENT LEARNING OUTCOMES—ACC SENATE? STUDENT SERVICES TO PROVIDE? ]

7. STUDENT SUPPORT SERVICES AND THE CFCS PROGRAM

The Counseling Department continues to work with the CFCS Department to improve consistency from the moment of academic advising— recommendation—to the classroom event of learning and performance. The Director continues to hold trainings for the counseling staff in preparing students in job preparation. The Counseling Department now provides students with necessary information in obtaining Commission on Teacher Credentialing Child Development Permits. Liaisons are a regular part of CFCS Department meetings.

The CFCS Department provides child care to students meeting enrollment requirements.

We have written an addition grant to provide TANF and CalWORKS recipients who are training in the Child Development field with tutoring services, assistance with child care, books, and employment.