Program
Action PlansReminder of the goals of the workshop:
- Use what's known about how people learn to build strong courses
- Incorporate strategies that support all students to be successful
- Implement effective teaching activities that align learning goals, assessments, and instruction
Thursday
8:30 AM --- Welcome and Icebreaker
8:45 AM --- Course Design Considerations Warm-up
Think-Pair-Share Activity about a significant learning experience
9:00 AM --- Backward design and starting with learning goals Introductory slides (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 3.7MB Jul19 17)
- More about writing learning goals from the Course Design Tutorial
- Designing measurable learning goals is a short, interactive resource that supports the InTeGrate webinar about learning goals and alignment
- Understanding by design from the Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt
- Understanding by Design white paper (Acrobat (PDF) 326kB Oct22 14)
10:00 AM Break
10:15 AM --- Aligning learning goals with assessments
11:00 AM --- Report out: One goal and one assessment for your course
11:20 AM --- Road Check Thursday
11:30 AM --- Adjourn for the day
Friday
8:30 AM --- Thoughts from the roadcheck and plan for the day
8:45 AM --- Engaging in active learning
- Climate of Change: El Niño Case study
- Slides to go with El Niño activity (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 1.9MB Jul21 17)
- Teaching methods from Pedagogy in Action
- Search for activities in Teach the Earth
- ABC-CBV: Activity Before Concept, Concept Before Vocabulary
10:00 AM --- Break
10:15 AM --- Report out of activities that will lead up to your assessments
10:30 AM --- Metacognition and motivation: What is it and how do I do it?
- Slides for metacognition (PowerPoint 2007 (.pptx) 59kB Jul21 17)
- The Role of Metacognition in Learning from On the Cutting Edge
11:10 AM --- Strategies for ongoing improvement
- Discussion about getting feedback from colleagues, students, and the community
- Being strategic about making big changes
Show Additional resources for getting feedback
Hide11:20 AM --- Workshop evaluation
11:30 AM --- Adjourn
Additional Resources
Specific courses
- Teaching Introductory Geoscience Courses form On the Cutting Edge
- Teaching Large Classes
- Browse or search specific courses on Teach the Earth
National Academies publications
- Reaching Students: What Research Says About Effective Instruction in Undergraduate Science and Engineering
- Discipline-Based Educational Research: Understanding and Improving Learning in Undergraduate Science and Engineering
- Promising Practices in Undergraduate Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education
- How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice
Additional professional development opportunities
- NAGT's Traveling Workshop Program: you can apply to bring a workshop to your campus or region
- All of NAGT's upcoming and past workshops and webinars
- Course Design Tutorial from On the Cutting Edge