2005 Excellence in Teaching Award Winner
April Mann
College of Arts & Sciences, English Composition
How can we encourage our students to view themselves as active participants in the learning process? How can we help them collect the information provided in our courses in a way that will be most useful to them? This workshop is about an assignment based on the course guides sold at university bookstores. Those guides claim to provide the course's content in a laminated, brightly-colored nutshell; unfortunately, these prefabricated guides suffer from the need to cover all potentially relevant material and so can not be tailored for an individual instructor's course or, more importantly, an individual student's needs. They also put the student in the position of passive recipient of all the knowledge given by the textbooks and professors, rather than the gatherer, synthesizer, or even creator of that knowledge.
The "Personal Course Guide" assignment asks students to use the course guide format as a template for their own task of gathering the material that will help them achieve the learning goals of their class. Although this assignment was created specifically for a writing course, the activity itself should be applicable to any course in which the students are expected to learn actively from their experiences in the class and build on that knowledge throughout the term and afterwards.
Monday, February 6, 2006
12:20 PM - 1:10 PM
Whitten University Center
Room 226-A (Flamingo Ballroom)
Lunch will be served. Registration is required and limited to 20 participants.
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