Saturday, May 20, 2017

3 Day Course Redesign

Visual Syllabus Spiral
Visual Syllabus
We just finished a 3 day workshop on course redesign, based on Dee Fink's Self-Directed Guide to Significant Learning, and our #fab group thought through their courses very carefully aligning dream learning goals with realistic (more short term) learning goals, with assessments, with activities that provide students with the practice to be successful in the assessments, with the resources we need to provide students to be successful in the activities.

Highlights included the formation of a great new community of teachers, creative versions of a visual syllabus, lots of intense discussions on teaching and learning, with teachers learning about themselves as learners by being thrust into the student position, and videos on microteaching that included stuffed animals and Hello Kitty figures.

We will get back together end of July to see how the visual syllabi and other sketched out activities are taking shape for the Fall term, and we will provide specific, actionable and kind feedback to each other.
Visual syllabus flow chart
Visual Syllabus


visual syllabus landscape with castle black
Visual Syllabus

visual syllabus circle
Visual Syllabus