Lower-Division Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM)

[Cox, Graeme]

Fellow Chairs,

 

I received this from our Dean.  It refers to the THECB Student Learning Outcomes project.  To be quite honest I can’t believe they actually got to us.  They have given us a 30 day comment period to review the SLOs.  While this directly affects the Jr. colleges, in my mind it’s probably important that the universities have some input since that’s where our classes are transferring.  My hope is that some of you have been involved in developing these SLOs, so we’re in good hands.  I only send this email because I’m unsure how well your Deans communicate with you on these matters.

 

Pages 25-29 on the link below go to the PHED courses. 

 

I hope your semester is going well.  See you in Galveston.

 

Graeme.

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The Lower-Division Academic Course Guide Manual (ACGM) is the official list of general academic courses that may be offered by public community and technical colleges in Texas for state funding and are freely transferable to public universities. As part of an effort to improve the ACGM and statewide course transfer, Board staff are engaged in a project to develop student learning outcomes for some of the most frequently used courses in the manual. Selected courses currently being developed are part of the following disciplines: Agriculture (AGRI), Biology (BIOL), Communication (COMM), EDUC (Teacher Education Courses), Geography (GEOG), Physical Education (PHED), and TECA (Early Childhood Education).

 

Faculty groups from these disciplines have reviewed course syllabi from two-year and four-year public institutions and developed new course descriptions and learning outcomes for eventual inclusion in the ACGM. Toward that goal, I invite you to ask your faculty to review and comment upon these draft descriptions and outcomes. The public comment period will begin September 15, 2014 and will end on October 15, 2014.

 

Here is the link to our Workforce, Academic Affairs, and Research web page which has the course materials for comment: http://www.thecb.state.tx.us/ACGMLearningOutcomesProject

 

Please share this memo and webpage link with the appropriate departments at your institution. In order to facilitate the efforts of CB staff to incorporate public comments into the final product, we would appreciate receiving one collective comment from each department, rather than separate comments from each faculty member. Departments should email their comments to Ms. Rebecca Leslie at Rebecca...@thecb.state.tx.us, and she will collect the comments and prepare them for a final review by the faculty work groups. The faculty work groups will make any final adjustments that they deem necessary, after which Board staff will convey the course materials to the ACGM Advisory Committee for consideration for addition to the ACGM during their meeting in November.

 

 

Graeme Cox

Division Chair

Kinesiology, Athletics and Wellness

281-425-6223

www.lee.edu

Kinesiology Club: www.facebook.com/LeeCollegeKinesiologyClub

TAHPERD: http://www.tahperd.org/

 

[Patty Donaldson]

Thanks, Graeme for sharing this with us. I'll be looking over it. I will say one thing that I am SO happy about: changing 1301 BACK to Foundations of Kinesiology! Students would get 1301 and 1338 mixed up all the time.

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Patty Donaldson, MS, CAPE
PHED Coordinator/Instructor
Angelina College
3500 S. First
Lufkin, TX 75904
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[Almstedt, Richard H]

Hi Graeme!  We are closing the loop on last year’s SLO’s and opening up this years.  We are only doing one class a semester an Lone Star.

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[Smith, Darla]

Hi Graeme and other chairs

 

This is just a reminder that the google listserv is no longer being managed. Obviously messages will still get through, but they will not reach any new chairs. By way of this message, I am copying the new listserv, created through TAHPERD. I hope those of you on the google group, will enroll in the TAHPERD listserv which will serve College and University administrators. You do not have to be a member of TAHPERD to join the listserv.

 

All the best,

Darla

 

Darla R Smith, PhD

Professor Emerita of Kinesiology

University of Texas at El Paso

 

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