Santa Fe College

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Santa Fe College Gainesville, Florida A
Learning College for the 20th Century
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• The Santa Fe Commitment
• The student is the central focus for the process
  of learning.
• Teaching occurs only when students learn.
• Effective educational experiences will modify
  human behavior in a positive manner.

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Santa Fe Commitment

• 4. All human beings are motivated to
• achieve that which they believe is good.
• 5. Education should be an exciting,
• creative, and rewarding experience for
• the student and the teacher.
• 6. All human beings have worth, dignity,
• and potential.

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• 7. Experimentation and innovation are
• reflections of attitudes when they are
• translated into practice, the process of
• education can be significantly advanced.

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• Traditional concepts of education
• (the lecture, the thirty student class,
• the fifty-minute period, the standard
• textbook, the term course, the F
• grade, the rectangular classroom, the
• student desk) are suspect and in need
• of careful trial and evaluation at
• least equal to, and perhaps more than,
• new and innovative practices.

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The General Education Common Core Santa Fe
Community College
The Individualin a ChangingEnvironment
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The SocialEnvironment
SS-100
The Individualin a ChangingEnvironment
BE-100
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The PhysicalEnvironment
The SocialEnvironment
SC-100
SS-100
The Individualin a ChangingEnvironment
BE-100
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The PhysicalEnvironment
The SocialEnvironment
HM-100
The Aesthetic Environment
SC-100
SS-100
The Individualin a ChangingEnvironment
BE-100
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The PhysicalEnvironment
The SocialEnvironment
HM-100
The Aesthetic Environment
SC-100
SS-100
The Individualin a ChangingEnvironment
BE-100
EH-100The EnglishLanguage
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The PhysicalEnvironment
The SocialEnvironment
HM-100
The Aesthetic Environment
SC-100
SS-100
The Individualin a ChangingEnvironment
BE-100
EH-100The EnglishLanguage
MS-100TheMathematics
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• The Common Core Courses
• All courses required of everyone
• Behavioral objectives (cognitive
• and affective)
• Critical minima
• No pre-assessment for placement
• A, B, C grading system
• Learning contracts
• Active learning, problem-based
• learning, collaborative learning,
• learning communities

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Miscellaneous

• House units for organization
• No behavioral regulationsno
• probation and suspension
• 3. Behavioral objectives for student
• activities program
• 4. Nature nooks

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Favorite Quotes

• Nothing human is disgusting. Night
• of the Iguana Tennessee Williams
• It is only with the heart that one can
• see rightly what is important is
• invisible to the eye. The Little Prince

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Terry OBanion
Ancora Imparo Still I Am Learning. Michelangelo
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