Course ReDesign

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Course (Re)Design

• Office of the Associate Provost, Texas Womans
  University

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Scholarly Teaching

• Identify big questions
• Select Teaching Goals
• Design Learning Objectives/Outcomes
• Consult Literature
• Choose/Use Learning Experiences
• Conduct Systematic Assessment
• Document Observations
• Analyze Results
• Obtain Peer Evaluation

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Course Portfolio

• Course Description
• Teaching Goals Learning Outcomes
• Explanation of Design Choices
• In-class learning experiences
• Assignment
• Rubric
• Grading Plan
• Blueprint for test/other evaluation
• Classroom Assessment Techniques
• Teaching/Learning Philosophy for Course

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What are the Big Questions, Hopes and Dreams?

• What do you hope students will understand?
• Why should students care about this course?
• What impact will this have?

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What are your Teaching Goals?

• From TGI

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What are your Learning Objectives for each goal?

• What will students know?
• Cognitive Domain
• What will students be able to do?
• Psychomotor Domain
• What will students value?
• Affective Domain

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Knowledge Dimensions

• Factual Knowledge
• Basic elements necessary to understand/solve
  problems
• Conceptual Knowledge
• The inter-relationships among basic elements
• Procedural Knowledge
• How to do something/methods of inquiry
• Meta-Cognitive Knowledge
• Knowledge of cognition/awareness of own cognition

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Cognitive Process

• Remember
• Understand
• Apply
• Analyze
• Evaluate
• Create

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Affective Development

• Receive
• Respond
• Value
• Conceptualize values
• Internalize values

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Psychomotor Development

• Initiation
• Manipulation
• Precision
• Articulation
• Naturalization

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• What Learning Experiences serve each Learning
  Objective?

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• What is your Assessment Plan for each Objective?

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• Classroom Assessment Techniques

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Higher Order Thinking

• Annotated portfolios
• Concept maps
• One sentence summary
• Word Journal

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Basic Academic Success Skills

• Background knowledge probe
• Minute paper
• Chain notes

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Discipline Specific

• Applications Cards
• Focused Listing
• Empty Outline

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Liberal Arts Academic Values

• Pro Con grid
• Everyday ethical dilemmas
• Double entry journal

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Work Career Preparation

• Analytical memos
• Annotated portfolios
• Self-confidence surveys

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Personal Development

• Focused autobiographical sketches
• Assignment assessments
• Group work evaluations

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Collaborative Learning Approaches

• Cooperative Learning
• the instructional use of small groups so that
  students work together to maximize their own and
  each others learning (Johnson et al. 1990),
• involve assigning roles within each small group
  (such as recorder, participation encourager,
  summarizer) to ensure the positive
  interdependence of group participants and to
  enable students to practice different teamwork
  skills.
• group processing, a debriefing time where
  students reflect on how they are doing in order
  to learn how to become more effective in group
  learning settings (Johnson, Johnson and Holubec,
  1990).

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Problem-Centered Instruction

• immerse students in complex problems that they
  must analyze and work through together.
• develop problem-solving abilities, understanding
  of complex relationships, and decision making in
  the face of uncertainty

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• Guided Design practice decision-making in
  sequenced tasks, with detailed feedback at every
  step
• Case a story or narrative of a real life
  situation that sets up a problem or unresolved
  tension for the students to analyze and resolve
• Problem-centered Instruction discussion methods
  of teaching when people work in teams, they make
  more valid judgments than when working alone
• Simulations complex, structured role-playing
  situations that simulate real experiences

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Writing Groups

• (known variously as peer response groups, class
  criticism, or helping circles)
• read and listen to fellow students writing with
  insight, and to make useful suggestions for
  improvement.
• Composing groups and/or peer response

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Peer Teaching

• Seminars
• Writing Fellows
• Supplemental Instruction
• Workshops