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Date |
Portfolio
Deliverable |
Topics
(each links to session details) |
Reading |
1
Sep 24 |
Course Objectives |
What course have you chosen and why? Why CP's? What is a CP?
What are your course Objectives? Project Overview. Human Subjects. |
Shulman: "Course Anatomy" |
2
Oct 22 |
Context |
What makes a CP useful? How does your
course "fit" in your degree program(s), student demographics,
constraints under which your course operates. |
Read 3 example CP's from repositories
Cerbin, 2001 |
3
Nov 19 |
Content |
Course anatomy: what do you teach? What
are the parts? What are the organizing principles?
Similarities/differences among us. |
Dorst, The Story
behind the Design
Huber, Why Now? |
4
Dec 10 |
Methods |
Course physiology: how do you teach? What
methods? When used? For what purposes? Getting the "how" to fit the
"what" and "why" |
Adprima's Instructional Methods Overview
Apple Learning Interchange: Teaching Practice
|
5
Jan 7 |
Teaching Philosophy |
Why do you teach what you teach? Why do
you teach how you teach? What tacit assumptions do your teaching
choices embed? |
Bruner, Folk Pedagogy |
6
Feb 11 |
Evidence of Student Learning |
What does student work tell you? What are
students learning and
failing to learn? Do you ask students to undertake work that you
value? |
Bernstein, Student Learning
Hutchings et al, Focus
on Student Learning |
7
Mar 11 |
Assessment |
How do you grade? Making criteria
explicit. Why do you grade the way that you do? Assessing what you
value. |
Broad, "What we
really value" |
8
Apr 8 |
Self and Peer
Observation |
Debriefing the Self and Peer Observations. What did you learn? |
UW/CIDR on Peer Observation
Hutchings, Peer Observation |
9
May 6 |
Complete Portfolio (Draft) |
Teaching and Learning
Conference presentation |
|
10
Jun 3 |
Final Portfolio |
Portfolio presentations,
Creating a Disciplinary Commons,
Bridging institutional gaps |
Knox et al., "Peer review"
Shulman,
"Teaching as community property" |
Sept 29
2007 |
Read your portfolio |
One Year Later |
Pea, Practices of
distributed intelligence
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