Create a Learning Centered Syllabus FACULTY INSERVICE AUGUST 19, 2015 DR. MERRYELLEN TOWEY SCHULZ.

Create a Learning Centered SyllabusFACULTY INSERVICE

AUGUST 19, 2015

DR. MERRYELLEN TOWEY SCHULZ

What’s new?Curriculum Committee takes responsibility for updating, revising and posting syllabus guidelines

Student Learning Objectives must be measureable

Assessment and Evaluation must be aligned with student learning objectives.

Objectives for This WorkshopUpon completion of the objectives session, participants will be able to:

Rewrite a poorly written student

learning objective so that it

conforms to the ABCD method.

Write measureable

student learning objectives.

Write assessments that

align with student leaning

objectives.

If you aim at nothing, you will never miss, but you will also never hit the bulls eye.

Objective

Different archers have different styles; so do different teachers. You can shoot your arrows (objectives) many ways Goal

Use objectives to make sure you reach your goals.

Instructional Process

Mission

Goals

Objectives

Measurement AssessmentResults Analysis

Action Plan

Improvements

What are learning objectives?

Formal statements that articulate What STUDENTS are able to do

Following instruction (classroom level) After completing program of study (program level)With specific knowledge, skills, or attitudes

Goals vs Objectives

GoalsBroad and Vague

Students will understand objectives.

ObjectivesSpecific and MeasurableUpon completion of the workshop participants will write a measureable objectives.

ABCD Model AudienceStudent

Behavior (performance)What student will do

ConditionCircumstances under which the task will be accomplished

Degree (criteria)Percent correct, with no errors,

OK, Better, Best

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to identify an ethical dilemma.

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to analyze an ethical dilemma using theoretical frameworks.

Upon completion of the course, the student will be able to evaluate alternative actions from various ethical perspectives.

BETTER

OK

BESTAudienceBehavior Condition Degree

Audience Behavior

Audience BehaviorCondition

Nifty Tool from Iowa State Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching

http://www.celt.iastate.edu/teaching-resources/effective-practice/revised-blooms-taxonomy/

Verbs to Avoid and to Use

NOT APPROPRIATE (OPEN TO MANY INTERPRETATIONS)

GOOD (OPEN TO FEWER INTERPRETATIONS)

To Know To Write

To Understand To Recite

To Enjoy To Identify

To Appreciate To Differentiate

To Grasp Significance of To Solve

To Comprehend To Construct

To Believe To List

To Compare

To Contrast

What’s wrong with this?

At the conclusion of the course, the student will be able to: Understand about ethical dilemmas.

Make it better, then best.

Write an Objective

Write an objective

Share with partner Revise

Share with group

Use Objectives to Design Assessments

What the FACULTY will do to evaluate student progress toward achieving objectives

Assessment

Every objective must be measured

Data can come from standardized objective measures, performance assessments (rubrics), checklists, or other methods

Data must show evidence

What’s wrong with this assessment?

Students from the study skills course will demonstrate mastery of note-taking techniques by correctly using at least three different note-taking methods for classroom lectures.

What would be a good assessment?

Well written objective Students from the study skills course will demonstrate mastery of note-taking techniques by correctly using at least three different note-taking methods for classroom lectures. AssessmentUse checklist to evaluate student notes for correct use of three methods of note-taking.

Would appear on syllabus asAssignments Points

Lecture Notes 50

Alice in Wonderland

“Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?” Asked Alice.

“That depends a good deal on where you want to get to,” said the Cat.

“I don’t much care where,” said Alice.

“Then it doesn’t matter which way you go,” said the Cat.