Instructional Material Development:
A Team-based Approach to Designing Materials for Undergraduate Courses
Fall 2008 Special offering
Instructional Material Development:Introductory Biology
Spring 2009 (Anticipated Offering)
| Dates: To be announced... Instructors: To be announced... Course Description: Work in partnership with faculty/staff to design and implement high quality instructional materials. In this project-based course, you will develop instructional materials for a real course together with a faculty/staff teammate to address a student-learning problem. In the process, you will use a teaching-as-research (TAR) approach to learn more about analyzing student learning problems, finding resources, assessing effectiveness of the materials, and seeing student problems through different lenses. Past participants have valued the structure of the course with multiple teams of faculty/staff and graduate students/post docs from across the Natural, Behavioral and Physical Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines giving feedback to each other. Credits: 2-3 Registration information: To be announced... |
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| Participants work in pairs and in team during the IMD course, Spring 2005. |
Are
you a faculty member looking for ways to get involved
with Delta?
Do you teach an undergraduate course and find that one part of the course could be improved? Develop instructional materials with a grad student/post doc team mate(s) as you use a “teaching as research” approach to learn more about analyzing student learning problems, finding resources, assessing effectiveness of the materials, and seeing student problems through different lenses. Past participants have valued the structure of the course with multiple teams of faculty/staff and graduate students from across the Natural, Behavioral and Physical Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines giving feedback to each other.
Are you a graduate student looking for a course on how to teach undergraduate classes?
In this project-based course, you will develop instructional materials for a real course together with a faculty/staff teammate to address a student learning problem. In the process, you will use a “teaching as research” approach to learn more about analyzing student learning problems, finding resources, assessing effectiveness of the materials, and seeing student problems through different lenses. Past participants have valued the structure of the course with multiple teams of faculty/staff and graduate students from across the Natural, Behavioral and Physical Sciences, Engineering and Mathematics disciplines giving feedback to each other.
View the representative syllabus for this course. PDF / MS Word
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This team of instructors, along with several others, presented this course at the Annual Teaching and Learning Symposium. It was so well received that they were invited to do an encore presentation. |
The session explores how faculty and graduate students work in teams to develop instructional materials for courses in their discipline. The presenters will briefly introduce the course content and format and the objectives. They will discuss the aspects of the course designed to accommodate the diversity of levels of status and experience. Former participants including a team from Geology will discuss their projects and the experience of having faculty and graduate student in the course together. A general discussion will follow of teaching/learning objectives that benefit from the mixed participation and those that do not.
Past Presenters include:
Eric Horsman, Geology and Geophysics
Robert Jeanne, Entomology
Kirsten Johnson, Science Education
Basil Tikoff, Geology and Geophysics
Sarah Titus, Geology and Geophysics
Lillian Tong, Center for Biology Education
