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e gathered, a broadening cultural experience for 24 visual arts students and their two professors, an annual gallery show at the College featuring artwork developed in Chile, and a strong College relationship to alumni of the Chile program. Participating Organizations. Through this project, LaGuardia will build collaborative relationships with the Universidad Central de Santiago, the Father lePaige Archeological Museum in San Pedro de Atacama, the study abroad offices at the College of Staten Island and Borough of Manhattan Community College, the College Consortium of International Studies, and other study abroad and scholarship programs that can provide information and support for the College’s vision. Program Activities. In its initial effort, the College will rely upon attracting 24 visual arts students from within LaGuardia. The opportunity to participate in the Chile program will be advertised on campus through the methods that the College routinely uses to communicate with its students: flyers, posters, emails, College website banners, phone calls placed by the Student Information Center, and – most importantly – faculty announcements within visual arts classes. Recruitment will include special meetings for interested students where Professors Hernandez and Sternbach will explain the academic, financial, and other requirements of the program. Once students have applied to the program, been accepted, and made a financial commitment, each professor will provide a series of two or three orientation sessions, using resource materials that have been gathered from other colleges and adapted for use at LaGuardia. As is true with all programming at LaGuardia, encompassing the diversity of the College’s student body and recognizing the diversity in Chile will be one leitmotif of the orientation sessions. The lead faculty will develop lesson plans for the academic component of the study tour, offering instruction on art and culture in Chile and supervising students as they apply their talents in 16
photography and drawing. As a program grounded in the visual arts, the cultural component of the instruction will be a quotidian element, whether the students are visiting museums in Chile, participating in an archeological dig for pre-Columbian relics, or expressing artistry in their drawings and photographs. The small size of each group will permit close participant monitoring by the faculty leaders. Moreover, like most LaGuardia students, study abroad students will maintain ePortfolios where participants post their work, journal-type entries, and reflective essays; the faculty member accompanying each group will have access to the students’ ePortfolios and, thus, another tool for monitoring the growth and development of each participant and for performing formative evaluation. Program Evaluation. While a final evaluation plan will be crafted in Year #1, a preliminary plan would encompass formative and summative evaluation, the tracking of outputs, and the measurement of significant objectives/outcomes. (a) In terms of formative assessment, it should be noted that LaGuardia is an ePortfolio school. More than 9,000 LaGuardia students have active ePortfolios to which they contribute samples of their written work, personal statements, and reflective essays. Rubrics have been developed so that ePortfolios can be used to measure student progress in acquiring core competencies (i.e., critical literacy, quantitative reasoning, oral communication, research and information literacy, and technological literacy). By providing ePortfolio access to Professors Fernandez and Sternbach, the faculty leaders will be able to assess student learning on a formative basis. (b) In terms of outputs, LaGuardia is prepared to document the anticipated outputs from its project: in Year #1, a recruitment plan, detailed syllabi and lesson plans, arrangements for travel and accommodations, orientation materials, an evaluation plan, and an electronic resource book on study abroad; in Year #2, 24 students traveling to Chile who are Pell-eligible and diverse, 24 students participating in a post-Chile 17
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