• Full and Part Time Instructional and Non-Instructional Faculty

• Full and Part Time Classified Staff

• Administrators

• YCCD Board Members

• Students

• You want to understand what SLOs mean “to the big picture”

• You feel skeptical about what you’ve learned about SLOs thus far

• You have never learned anything about SLOs

• You have had training on SLOs but still do not understand what they are and what they mean to your work

• You have not attended any SLO trainings within the last 12 months

After attending a “No-Nonsense” training session on SLOs, MJC faculty and staff will be able to:

• Distinguish between student learning objectives and student learning outcomes

• Describe the cycle in which student learning outcomes and objectives are some of the steps used to improve learning

• Explain why objectives are instructor-specific or service-specific.

• Name one institutional process in which key elements for SLOs have already been created.

• Justify the value of measurable objectives to:

  • STUDENTS

  • OURSELVES

  • OUR COLLEAGUES

  • OUR COMMUNITY

• Identify what makes an objective measurable.

• Exemplify types of factors that can influence a single outcome.

• Describe how an outcome can provide an interesting snapshot of our institutional effectiveness in a given place and time.

• Explain how the instructional design cycle is a tool to help us improve our institutional effectiveness.

• Describe the impact of our loss of accreditation on our students

• Describe the relationship between SLOs and our accredited status

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