2. Tonight’
s
Agenda
For next week: Final course reflection (on
blog)
Considering how to best implement your
curricular project
Prepare for next week: 5-minute individual
overview (PowerPoint optional / single slide
3. Four Components of Effective Teaching
Beginning of Instruction
Knowledge of
Subject
Matter
Teacher-
Learner
Interactions
Management of
the Learning
Environment
Design of
Instruction
Interpersonal and social skills
Facilitation
Skills, setting a good
Learning
climate
Skill development
Discipline or specialty-specific
4. How Do We Achieve
Significant
Learning?
BASED ON DEE FINK’S BOOK, CREATING
SIGNIFICANT LEARNING EXPERIENCES (2003)
5. Two Ways to Put a Course (Learning
Experience) Together
• List of topics
• Learning centered approach: put the course
together systematically using “integrated
course design”
6. Can the goals you have
set be measured within
the context of your
course with the
learning objectives you
have established?
Integrated Design
involves a Match
Learning
Goals
Feedback and
Assessment
Instructional
Strategies
Can the goals you
have set be
achieved with
learning strategies
that will deliver
your course
content?
Situational Factors
7. Writing Objectives that Align with Your
Goals
WW
Who
will do
how much (or how well)
of what
by when
By the end of this rotation, learners will have … (past
tense, strong active verb)
By the end of this course, students will be able to ….
(future orientation, strong active verb)
The stem of the sentence can be written in
one of two ways:
8. Questions for Formulating Significant
Learning Goals
WW
Foundational Knowledge
Application (what kinds of thinking needed?)
Integration (what connections should they
recognize)
Human Dimension (what should your
learners learn about themselves?)
Caring (what changes would you like to see in
what they care about? Feelings, interests,
values?)
Learning How to Learn (what do you want
9. Backward Design
Begin with the end in mind:
– What do you want your learners to be able to know or
to do at the end of instruction?
– Identify situational factors
• Specific context
• Expectations of external groups
• Nature of the subject
• Characteristics of the learners
• Characteristics of the teacher
• Special pedagogical challenges: What is the special situation
in this course that challenges us to make it a meaningful and
important learning experience?
10. Things that Can Get in the Way
Resources – personnel, time, facilities, funding
Obtaining Support – internal/external
Administration of the Curriculum
Needed communications / coordination, operations, i.e.,
how it will work in practice
Anticipating Barriers
Introducing the Curriculum
Piloting, phasing in, full implementation
11.
12. Which of these dimensions are
present in your curriculum?
Which do you need to revisit?
14. Audit-ive Educative
Backward-looking:
what did they do?
Grading is the only
mechanism
Forward looking: What will
they do?
Cycle of performance –
feedback- revision- and new
performance
Self-Assessment by
Learners
Fidelity Feedback
Frequent / Intermediate /
Discriminating (based on
criteria and standards) / Done
lovingly
Established criteria and
standards
Result is better learning
15. How would you assess your own
performance in this course?
(self-assessment)
