Learning Outcomes
- Identify current uses of asset-based pedagogies in courses, including trauma informed pedagogy, open pedagogy, and Universal Design for Learning
- design learning experiences with asset-based pedagogies
- apply learner-centered principles to the syllabus
- Apply universal design for learning to course assignments and activities
Tuesday, January 5, Zoom session
- Welcome
- Territorial acknowledgement (see https://usdac.us/nativeland)
- Getting to know each other: Team Tally (team time)
- Thinking about pedagogy, part 1
- Situating our work within asset pedagogies
- Trauma informed teaching and learning (team time)
Preparation for January 7 Zoom session
Read the following articles, write responses/notes to the spark questions, which we’ll use as a jumping off point for our discussion on Thursday, January 7:
- “Preparing a Learning-Focused Syllabus”
- http://www.learningscientists.org/blog/2017/6/18/weekly-digest-64
- Spark questions: What about your syllabus is learning-focused? What is one change you might make to be more learning focused? Find an example of a policy on your syllabus; insert the phrase “because I say so” at the end. How does this change the perspective?
- “What Is Open Pedagogy?”
- http://openpedagogy.org/open-pedagogy
- Spark questions: In what ways do you share power in your classes? Where are the places that you might make space for more student agency?
- Universal Design for Learning
- Watch the video and respond to questions at the link above.
Thursday, January 7, Zoom session
Thinking about pedagogy, part 2
- From the beginning: Your syllabus (team time)
- Open pedagogy (team time)
- Universal Design for Learning
