Tag: ACM Pedagogy and Course Design Workshops

Re-thinking our courses to be attentive to context and to be intentional about goals and assignments can also help us build more equitable and inclusive classes. A significant principle of equity in educational settings involves revealing the hidden curriculum. Inclusive course design emphasizes student sense of belonging. Maximally accessible courses offer students multiple modes of engaging with course material and assignments. The ACM workshops, as well as the additional resources we’ve included in the links for each workshop topic, offer ways to reveal the hidden curriculum by being clear and transparent in your syllabus and assignment design, increase student sense of belonging and connection, and diversify assignment options. Below you’ll find links to recordings of the workshops (once available) and additional resources for each topic. Registration information for each session will be sent out each week via the cst-news mailing list.

Design your course once for multiple modalities

If you are planning to teach a hybrid course in 2020-2021, use these resources and suggestions to learn how to design your course for both in-person and remote students.

Asynchronous/Flipped Classroom/Hybrid/Dual Delivery/Syllabus Design/Synchronous

Creating a maximally responsive syllabus: Aligning learning outcomes, assignments, and assessment strategies

Our Associate Director of Assessment, Nancy Bostrom, with colleagues from Coe and Grinnell Colleges, facilitated a workshop focused on strategies to build a maximally responsive syllabus. Access this workshop as well as additional resources for creating a module-based syllabus here.

Assessment/Assignments/Syllabus Design

Developing effective assignments for the hybrid context and beyond: Using multiple modes of engagement and assessment

Use these resources from the assignment development workshop (facilitated by Britt Abel (German Studies, Director of Writing), Lisa Stroschine, Jane Nesmith, and Angela Ziskowski (Coe College); Robert Hinck and Shweta Srivastava (Monmouth College)) to learn how to develop effective assignments for your hybrid course. The resources focus primarily on creating transparent assignments that follow the Universal Design for Learning.

Assessment/Assignments/Asynchronous/Flipped Classroom/Hybrid/Dual Delivery/Syllabus Design/Synchronous

Teaching and learning with care and hope: Ways of being with crisis, trauma, and uncertainty in the classroom and beyond

To help faculty imagine ways to address trauma in our teaching, our colleagues Karín Aguilar-San Juan (American Studies) and Devavani Chatterjea (Biology) led the first Associated Colleges of the Midwest (ACM) summer 2020 faculty development session on Teaching and Learning with Care and Hope. Access this session as well as additional resources for addressing trauma in your course here.

Assessment/Syllabus Design

The liberal arts mindset at a distance: Tactics for building a hybrid course

The 2020-2021 school year will require us to consider ways to offer a liberal arts education at a distance. Use this guide to find resources and tactics to begin building your hybrid course.

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