Fall Teaching Conference Workshop - The Top 4 Teaching Challenges … and How to Address Them

Chloe Chapin, Assistant Director, Course Development, Derek Bok Center for Teaching and Learning

How do I plan a section? What’s a good in-class activity? How do I grade this assignment? How should I start planning a sample syllabus for the job market? As an instructor, your challenge is to create a learning environment where students have the tools, opportunity, and desire to learn. How do you create the conditions where this is possible? In this session, we will use backwards design to practice planning engaging and goal-oriented courses, assignments, lessons, and activities. Backwards course design is a method of curriculum planning and assignment design that centers student engagement. It will help you learn to articulate your goals and objectives and create appropriate methods of instruction and assessment. We will reflect on ways that these “backward” design strategies can help us think about our own goals, scholarship, and values as educators.

This session is part of the Fall Teaching Conference, which is designed to prepare new and experienced graduate student teachers for their roles as Teaching Fellows in the FAS. Pre-registration is required. Learn more here.