Tune Into Teaching: Course Planning Clinic – Designing Courses for Academic Resilience

Facilitators:
Megan Burnett, Associate Director, CTSI
Michal Kasprzak, Assistant Director, CTSI/TATP
Justin Fletcher, Faculty Liaison Coordinator, Teaching, Learning, and Technology, Centre for Teaching Support & Innovation (CTSI) and Academic & Collaborative Technologies (ACT)

In this interactive hands-on clinic, participants will workshop a particular approach to course planning. After first considering the situational factors that inform the delivery of their course, they will develop a few key course learning outcomes. Working back from these outcomes, participants will map out some of the key activities they would like their students to do to develop competence in subject areas and consider what assessments will be needed as the course progresses to demonstrate learning in these areas. They will then use a worksheet developed by Dee Fink (Creating Significant Learning Experiences, 2013) to plan what students will do when they are in class versus what they will do when they are engaged in course work outside of class time. The clinic will end with participants being introduced to the Course Framework worksheet that they can take away and work on as they further develop their course plan. A key goal of the worksheets is to help instructors streamline content to see where space can be created for students to practice using skills and concepts and reflect on learning before being evaluated. Participants are asked to bring to the session the syllabus or outline for one course they are planning.