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The Instructional and Extended Services (IR/ES) Division of Antelope Valley College promotes a culture of academic success and lifelong learning by providing instruction, information resources, and support services to students, faculty, and staff.
IR/ES values and promotes:
• Active Learning strategies that emphasize independent, critical, and analytic thinking;
• Help-seeking behaviors that empower learners to achieve the assistance they need;
• Technology and the skills necessary to effectively incorporate that technology into teaching and learning practices;
• A welcoming environment that reduces the fear and anxiety of asking questions and acquiring new skills;
• An attitude of possibility and of taking responsibility for one's own learning;
• An understanding of power of knowledge and of applying knowledge to problem solving;
• A community of learners who emphasize cooperation, creativity, and experimentation;
• An ongoing curiosity to learn and the "aha" of new-found knowledge.
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