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January 20, 2022, Filed Under: Autonomy, Learning Outcomes, Metacognition, Motivation, Retrieval

1 Simple Way to Capture Students’ Attention…with Learning Outcomes

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How often do you return to your learning outcomes with your students throughout a semester? Many of us spend a tremendous amount of energy (sometimes decades!) developing our learning outcomes for our syllabi at the launch of a course. However,  we never revisit them again until the following year during syllabus prep time. Such negligence of our outcomes throughout a course is unfortunate because they can be powerful drivers of learning throughout the semester. 

Capture Attention at the Start of Class with a Learning Outcome Slider 

Learning outcomes are so important to me that I use them to launch every class meeting and “grab” students’ attention. To do this, I open each class with a Learning Outcome Slider. I designed the Learning Outcome Slider activity to help me create an engagement habit with students at the start of the pandemic, and I’ve maintained it since. Continue Reading 1 Simple Way to Capture Students’ Attention…with Learning Outcomes

February 24, 2021, Filed Under: Academic Continuity, Big Ideas, Learning Outcomes, Online Teaching, Retrieval, Uncategorized

Redesign Checklist for Instructional Continuity

We just lost 10+ days due to the February 2021 Winter Storm. An event such this will likely happen again in the future. Below, find a checklist to help prioritize how to redesign your syllabi and content and guide decision making during academic continuity situations.

 

Revisit the Big Ideas of the Course – Redesign activities to ensure those big ideas are met.

What are the lynchpin ideas for your course? The ideas that without which, students’ subject-matter understanding may very well fall apart?

For example, for my Design Pedagogy course here in UT’s College of Fine Arts, one of the big ideas is that all learning involves the making of memories. I want to ensure that the content we planned to address during the February 2021 Winter Storm closure that feeds that big idea is retained in some fashion.

Direct your redesign with threads to your big ideas. Eradicate items that lightly or minimally build toward big idea development. Continue Reading Redesign Checklist for Instructional Continuity

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