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Paul Quick, PhDCoordinator of Faculty and TA Development
Course Design 1:Planning your FYOS
First-Year Odyssey Seminar Workshops
Questions via the web?
Submitvia webform: ctl.uga.edu/fyos/stream
via Twitter: @ugactl (use tag #FYOS)
Goals for this FYOS workshop
Discuss questions faculty have about planning FYOS
Become familiar with backward-course design
Become familiar with two taxonomies of learning to better appreciate the FYOS goals
Explore how to integrate FYOS learning goals into your planning
Why are you here?
How many have submitted proposals? https://fyo.uga.edu/
How many have a syllabus? How many of you are at the idea-stage?
What questions about planning your FYOS do you have?
CARINGDeveloping new• Feelings• Interests• Values
LEARNING HOW TO LEARN• Becoming a better student• Inquiring about a subject• Self-directing learners
HUMAN DIMENSION Learning about:OneselfOthers
INTEGRATIONConnecting:• Ideas• People• Realms of life
FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGEUnderstanding and remembering:• Information• Ideas
APPLICATION• Skills• Thinking: critical,
creative, & practical• Managing projects
Fink’s Taxonomy
of Significant Learning
Situational Factors
Context Specific teaching and learning situation General context of teaching and learning
Nature of the subjectCharacteristics of learnersCharacteristics of teacher
CARINGDeveloping new• Feelings• Interests• Values
LEARNING HOW TO LEARN• Becoming a better student• Inquiring about a subject• Self-directing learners
HUMAN DIMENSION Learning about:OneselfOthers
INTEGRATIONConnecting:• Ideas• People• Realms of life
FOUNDATIONAL KNOWLEDGEUnderstanding and remembering:• Information• Ideas
APPLICATION• Skills• Thinking: critical,
creative, & practical• Managing projects
Learning Goals Come First
In a course with significant learning, students will:
1. Understand and remember the key concepts, terms, relationship, etc.
2. Know how to use the content.
3. Be able to relate this subject to other subjects.
4. Understand the personal and social implications of knowing about this subject.
5. Value this subject and further learning about it.
6. Know how to keep on learning about this subject, after the course is over.
FYOS Goal 1
Introduce first-year students to the importance of learning and academics so that we engage them in the academic culture of the University. Assignments and discussion will:
Focus on seminar topic Encourage student to be self-reflective learners
What’s the reason for study? What’s it mean to be a self-directed learner?
www.ctl.uga.edu/fyos
Goal 1: Assessment and Learning Activities
Have student relate long-term professional and personal goals. Where do those goals come from? How do students intend to use their college career to help pave the way toward those goals?
Journal entries, brief oral presentation, reflective essay
Have students reflect on these questions the first week of class and then revisit them at the end . Perhaps have them revise and reflect upon changes.
www.ctl.uga.edu/fyos
FYOS Goal 2
Give first-year students an opportunity for meaningful dialogue with a faculty member to encourage positive, sustained student-faculty interactions.
Key elements of seminar will: Introduction to faculty members’ scholarly path Inclusion of one or more written exercises that:
document dialogue between student and faculty guide students in thinking and rethinking
academic
Goal 2: Assessment and Learning Activities
Trade questions: Students write questions, the professor collects them and redistributes them randomly back to students. Students are given a few minutes to try to answer the question. Discuss selected questions as a whole class. Written paper, journals, blogs Written documentation of dialogue between the
faculty and student in the preparation of: a poster presentation, an oral presentation, a mathematical proofwww.ctl.uga.edu/fyos
FYOS Goal 3
Introduce first-year students to the instruction, research, public service and international missions of the University and how they relate to teaching and learning in and outside the classroom so that we increase student understanding of and participation in the full mission of the University. Web-based overview resources will be made
available Students are required to attend at least 3
campus events
Goal 3: Assessment and Learning Activities
For each event a student attends write about the event and attempt to connect that event with one of the missions of the University and/or with the seminar and/or the work of the professor/discipline/department.
These can be posted on blogs, on eLC or turned in on paper.
www.ctl.uga.edu/fyos
FYOS Learning Goals: One-Column Chart
Learning Goals
Seminar Topic Knowledge
Significant Learning Goal(see Fink)
Significant Learning Goal(see Fink)
FYOS Goal 1
FYOS Goal 2
FYOS Goal 3
FYOS Planning: Three-Column ChartLearning Goals Assessment Activities Learning Activities
Seminar Topic Knowledge
Significant Learning Goal(see Fink)
Significant Learning Goal(see Fink)
FYOS Goal 1
FYOS Goal 2
FYOS Goal 3