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Working w/students as partners & co-designers has been the most meaningful shift in my pedagogical approach over the past decade. I was delighted to co-host w/ @YerGalSal and @georgesphilgs a @UBishops session today on how to include students in the course design + delivery 1/7
How do we design for students as partners and co-designers?
Communicate clear course Expectations: 1. ask students “what do you hope to learn and how will you engage?” 2. Share your expectations. 3. Is there a disconnect? Workshop to build consensus and understanding. 2/7
Communicate clear course Expectations: 1. ask students “what do you hope to learn and how will you engage?” 2. Share your expectations. 3. Is there a disconnect? Workshop to build consensus and understanding. 2/7
Provide students with as much choice as possible to improve autonomy and self-regulation: design for compassion & consent, build in wiggle room (drop lowest mark, opt-in assignments), provide different weighing options, ask them to set their deadlines for submission 3/7
Design the syllabus as a living document built through consensus and consent: include ethics of care statement, share philosophy of assessment, think about a commitment contract that is co-creates & strategies of engagement that are reciprocal rather than uni-directional 4/7
Engage in quarterly/mid-term pulse checks (and commit to integrate feedback in authentic & adaptive ways) and provide students with tools to effectively engage in critical reflective practice: what is helpful/constructive feedback? what are the diff roles & responsibilities? 5/7
Provide students w/ opportunities to evaluate their work: ask them to submit a one pager w/ their final project/essay reflecting on amount of time, engagement, number of drafts, context, process - and even offer space for them to propose a mark they feel reflects their work) 6/7
Offer choice for evaluation: Choose your own adventure for assessment – e.g. three streams with options on weighting, submission deadlines; Co-design assignments/weighting & align w/ the course objectives & expectations; Offer a creative option & alternatives to exams/essays 7/7
