DEAF 311 INTRO. TO AMERICAN DEAF CULTURE

Thomas K. Holcomb, Ph.D.

Deaf Education Certificate Program

•Prepare students for para-professionalpositions

•17 unit certificate program•Courses include:

• Deaf Education• Counseling Techniques• Linguistics of ASL• Child Development and the Deaf Experience• Human Potential• American Deaf Culture

DEAF 311 SLOs

1. Compare and contrast American Deaf culture to the mainstream culture

2. Describe the historical interrelationships between ASL, the Deaf community and the larger, predominately hearing society

3. Present the cultural aspects of the American Deaf community including identity, norms, social rules, values and traditions.

Assessment tool

• End of Semester Student Survey

• Evaluate the effectiveness of various instructional activities that were used during the semester.

Activity - Helpful or Not

Instructional Activity

Very Helpful

Somewhat Helpful

Not Helpful

Textbook 50% 17% 33% 0% 0% PowerPoint Presentation 67% 33% 0% 0% 0% See What I Mean DVD 33% 17% 17% 17% 0%

Homework 17% 50% 33% 0.00% 0%

Strategy – More or Less

Instructional Activity More Same Less

No Opinion

Textbook 0 100% 0% 0% PowerPoint Presentation 0 100% 0% 0% See What I Mean DVD 33% 17% 17% 17%

Homework 0% 50% 17% 33%

Improvement Plan: A 2 year project to develop an on-line learning tool

Improvement Plan

A sample interactive video activity

https://store.treehousevideo.com/unit/watch-choice-point-4-posting-asl-music-videos/