Building Classroom Community and Translating Learning Goals
Friday, November 5, 2021 12:30 – 2:00pm
Learning Goals
Learning Goals for the Seminar
By the end of the Seminar, participants will be able to:
- Define student engagement and participation
- Identify strategies and opportunities for synchronous and asynchronous student engagement
- Locate available resources at Baruch that support student learning and engagement
- Articulate plans to include student engagement and participation in their courses
- Actualize opportunities for student engagement and participation by developing and revising a “teaching artifact”
Learning Goals Core Session 1
During this session, we want to:
- Introduce concepts of learning goals, engagement, “teaching artifact”, …
- Establish a sense of seminar community by connecting participants in groups of peers
- Discuss students’ perspective on classroom engagement (student survey)
- Model techniques of engagement by using breakout rooms, polls, and other synchronous active learning
- Go over any seminar logistics? (Or point to where to find more about seminar logistics)
- Advertise some asynchronous activities
- Pull back the curtain (Our learning goals here can be the substance of PBtC.)
By the end of this session, participants will be able to:
- Provisionally define student engagement in the context of your course
- Begin to articulate your “teaching artifact” and the aims you have for it during the seminar
- Connect to a group of your peers
Session 1 Prep – posted on Course Site
Session 1 Lesson Plan (Friday, November 5th @ 12:30 – 2:00pm)
Building Classroom Community and Translating Learning Goals
12:15 – 12:30pm (15 mins)
Open session 15 min early
Show slide explaining how to modify your name on zoom (include accessibility for people joining by phone) and include accessibility instructions for captioning and transcript.
12:30 – 12:40 pm Seminar Intros (10 mins)
- Welcome!
- Outline ways to engage in the seminar session
- Modeling icebreakers – doing something together as a community
Prompt: Modify your Zoom name to include:
- Your Department
- Pronoun of preference
Prompt: Use chat and type in where you are joining us from today
12:40-12:55 pm Peer Group Intros (15 min)
Introduce Peer Groups in breakout rooms (4-5 participants and CTL facilitator)
Prompt: What are you teaching? How would you define engagement in the context of your course?
(Pop-up ad for Katherine and Pamela’s icebreaker workshop)
12:55 – 1:25 pm Survey Activity (20-30 mins) – Ron, Katherine, and Pamela
Setup: We expect that the definition of “student engagement” will develop over the course of your time in the seminar. You are likely coming in with a working definition, and ideally the survey data has made you think more deeply about that definition. Now you will have a chance to develop your thoughts about engagement further in conversation with your colleagues.
Breakout Room Prompt: In your mind, go back to the Student Engagement Survey video you watched and commented on in Vocat as part of your “pre-work” for this current session. Bring your thoughts, observations, and questions to your small breakout room group to begin a discussion about how you see student engagement in your course. As you discuss, try to tease out some of the commonalities between all of your definitions of engagement, and to note some of the differences.
Report back: Be prepared to return to the larger core group and report back to the 1-2 commonalities you discovered about the ways you and your colleagues are currently defining student engagement and 1-2 differences. These should be reported back to the larger core group as bullet points that you will drop into the chat when prompted.
(Zoom logistics: 6 breakout rooms, 5-6 people per room)
1:25 – 1:30 pm (5 mins)
Model a stretch break (5 minutes)
(Pop-up ad for Pamela’s async activity)
1:30 – 1:50 pm Teaching Artifact Brainstorm (20 min) – Seth
Identify a “teaching artifact” from your course that you believe could be enhanced by more attention to student engagement. (include slide of artifact types). Discuss what you have in mind with your group. (15 minutes)
1:50 – 2:00 pm Wrap up (10 mins)
- Introduce the Session 2 Prep materials (2 minutes)
- Pull back the curtain and discuss our process
- Learning Goals as Opportunities for Engagement (8 minutes)
At 2:00 Invited for Q&A (15 min)
2:00 – 2:15 Follow-up and social time (optional; session ends at 2)
2:15 Close session