January 7, 2005: Teaching Philosophy
- Session Outline (5")
- Peer observation (lecture/discussion, 20")
- Teaching philosophy for this course (presentations, 5"/each, 60"
total)
- What is it?
- What are examples of its specific enactment in this course?
- Break, file upload (15")
- Assumptions underlying the
Commons design.
- Comparing contexts
revisited (plenary, 5")
- PNW Higher Ed T & L Conference
(discussion, 10")
- Generalizing across philosophies (discussion, 20")
- Where do our philosophies come from?
- How do our philosophies change?
- How can we actively impact our own and one another's change of
philosophy?
- Evidence of student learning (small groups, 30")
- Discuss "being empirical" for insight into whether students are
achieving your course learning objectives.
- What artifacts of student work will provide evidence?
- How will you sample students and their work?
- How will you analyze the artifacts?
- What will the work and its analysis tell you?
- What specific artifacts of student work will you bring in next
time for discussion?
- Public Reviews: how is it
going? (discussion 10")
- Looking to the next session: (10")