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Creating a Syllabus for the Learner-Centered Classroom

This workshop centers around a discussion on the syllabus in a learner-centered class. Specifically participants will: learn how the learner-centered syllabus can be used connect the student with the content of the course and with the instructor, learn how the learner-centered syllabus can be used as a resource to help students succeed academically, receive templates that can be used to create a learner-centered syllabus, receive "boilerplate" statements about behavioral expectations, diversity, and campus learning resources and that can be incorporated into existing syllabi, and brainstorm ways to incorporate these ideas into the creation of your syllabi.

For additional information contact Tim McMahon.

Creating a Syllabus for the Learner-Centered Classroom (PDF File containing all workshop material) For online reading: Five Key Changes To Practice Constructing the Learning-Centered Syllabus 36 Ways to Make Your Classroom More Learner-Centered An Example of Reconceptualizing One Portion of Your Syllabus More Good Thoughts on Participation Templates and Boilerpate Statements Learner-Centered Syllabi Resources Univeristy of Oregon Resources

Try playing with some metaphors for characterizing your course and its place in the larger curriculum or in the broader intellectual and moral intellectual lives of your students. Is your course like a journey, a parable, a football game, a museum, a romance, a concerto, an Aristotelian tragedy, an obstacle course, one or all or some of the above? How does your metaphor(s) illuminate key aspects of your course? (Shulman, L., & Hutchings, P. 1994)

 

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