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Re-Thinking Your Course

Explore a new approach to structuring your course contact hours for maximum learning impact. Discover strategies to prioritize goals, assess student learning, and design classroom activities. Maximize student engagement and achieve your desired outcomes.

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Re-Thinking Your Course

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  1. Re-Thinking Your Course

  2. Contact Hours Comparison • Current 2,520 minutes/semester • New MWF 2,475 minutes • New TTh 2,400 minutes

  3. Contact Minutes Over Two Weeks • Current 350 minutes • New MWF 330 minutes • New TTh 320 minutes

  4. First Message • Get the big rocks in first!! • Steve Ehrman

  5. Multiple Approaches • Jay McTighe and Grant Wiggins • Understanding by Design • L. Dee Fink • Creating Significant Learning Experiences

  6. What Do I Most Care About • Eaves-dropping on a conversation among former students five years from now – • What would you most like to hear them remember from your course?

  7. Possible Goals • Foundational, short term • Score 80% or higher on comprehensive final • Foundational, longer term • Master this material so can succeed in next course • Broader, application/integration • Learn how historians evaluate arguments and information • Human dimension/caring • See themselves as appreciating history and seeing its importance

  8. Reminder • The point is not to include all or most of the goals. • The key is thinking about what you want to achieve – and making a conscious decision.

  9. Assessment and Classroom Activities • Design Assessment First • Create exams aimed at testing whether students learned what you said was most important • Then Create Classroom Activities • Plan activities designed to help students develop so they can meet the assessment tasks (and the learning goals)

  10. Before You Teach • Write out test questions • Or • “At the end of this unit, students will be able to…”

  11. Benefits • Forces use to operationalize goal statements • Having test questions in mind helps us sort out what to include and what can be left out • Serves as test of whether you are doing what you really care about

  12. Ways of Shaping Classroom Time • How/where to deliver information • Do we have to tell them or are there alternatives? • Flipped classroom?

  13. What Kind of Information • Depends on Learning Goals • Content • Packaged w/out ambiguity • Lecture or text • Interpretation/analysis • “Messy” – no single conclusion

  14. What Will The Students Be Doing? • Active learning • Make relevance explicit • Reflection • What did I learn/what is still unclear • How has my understanding changed • How this information matters in my life

  15. Classroom Activities – The Big Message • There is never enough time, so you have to leave some things out • Make sure it is a conscious choice based on your learning goals

  16. Structuring Out of Class • Explicit planning • Asking them to do things that meet your goals • Follow with rudimentary flipped classroom • Focus on what they need help understanding • Not delivery of what they have learned from reading

  17. Getting them to do the work • Accountability • Not everything has to be graded • Changing our behavior • Don’t be an enabler

  18. Teaching Strategy • Techniques v. strategies • Audience, timing and goals • Understand where students are • Find appropriate techniques • Use combinations to create illusion of variety • Use combinations over different days to move from lower level learning to higher

  19. Check Your Work • Dee’s Grid

  20. If you want more … • More on Dee’s approach, or a chance to talk with others who are trying to re-organize their courses • During summer • Let me know

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