Understanding Student Learning and Designing a Syllabus
These are used to convey what it is that you want students to learn in your class.
What are Student Learning Outcomes?
This learning technique is best when it is delivered in short time period by skilled speakers.
What is lecture?
This type of assessment is used to determine if majors are meeting the major SLOs.
What is program assessment?
This way of thinking about teaching and learning helps give all students an equal opportunity to succeed.
What is Universal Design for Learning?
This is an opportunity to go to another county and learn from living in that community.
What is study abroad (or education abroad)?
This is student-focused, reasonable, and measurable.
What is a good student learning outcome?
This technique involves breaking students into three groups where each student in that group has read the same article. Then, the groups are recombined so each group consists of students who have read each of the three articles.
What is a jigsaw? Also acceptable: applied learning technique (or something similar).
This type of assessment can be used to see what students learned over the course of a semester or a specific activity.
What is pre/post test?
Usable, accessible, and inclusive.
What are the three main principles of universal design?
This approach integrates academic theory and community service.
What is service learning?
This should be designed before you design your syllabus.
What is your course?
This technique involves working with team members.
What is collaborative learning?
These can make grading more efficient and more equitable.
What are grading rubrics?
This is the main thing that you can implement in the classroom to increase equity and inclusion.
What is structure?
This type of learning involves educational processes that include communication, interaction, involvement, and/or exchange between with a community entity for a range of outcomes.
What is community engaged learning?
This is a way to ensure your students are reading the syllabus.
What is a syllabus quiz? Also acceptable: easter egg
This technique involves everyone person in the group sharing for one minute with no one else talking, and then after that is complete, anyone can speak about something that has already been brought up.
What is circle of voices? Also acceptable: discussion technique.
These types of assessments build on one another throughout the semester.
What are scaffolded assignments?
What type of mindset helps create inclusive spaces in classrooms?
What is growth mindset
This involves engaging students in research with local organizations or entities.
What is community-based research?
This hierarchy of learning is one way to think through designing a syllabus and ensuring higher-level student learning.
What is Blooms Taxonomy?
This approach involves providing student experiences like service learning and study abroad.
What is experimental learning.
Group discussions about a topic and pointing out misunderstandings or successes, clicker questions, exit tickets are all examples of what type of assessment?
What are embedded assessments?
Who should have the biggest voice in your classroom?
This is a great place to publish research you collect on applied learning and other techniques.
What is TRAILS?