Open Pedagogy Assignments Schedule

Learning Outcomes

• Describe the characteristics of open pedagogy
• Define asset-based pedagogies, including culturally sustaining pedagogy and trauma-informed pedagogy
• Incorporate asset pedagogies into your open pedagogy assignment
• Use backward design to plan your open pedagogy assignment
• Be Awesome

WEEK 1

Tuesday, June 6

**Prior to meeting Tuesday, June 6**

• If you’re not yet a member of the OpenLab (BMCC’s virtual campus), complete the sign up process (instructions)
• Create (or update) your OpenLab profile and add a photo or image (instructions)
• Introduce yourself on the Community Members page of our website (which also includes the OER/ZTC Course Redesign seminar)

2pm – 3:30pm

• Welcome and land acknowledgment
• Getting to know each other: Team Tally
• Thinking about pedagogy, part 1
  • Situating our work within asset pedagogies
  • Trauma informed teaching and learning
• “We Are of a Tribe” by Alberto Ríos

**Prior to meeting Thursday, June 8**

• Choose the type of assignment (audiorecording/podcasting (example assignment attached), zine, public writing on the OpenLab, reviews, Wikipedia or other wiki, etc.) you would like to focus on and jot down ideas on this worksheet to bring to our next session on Thursday, June 8.
• If you haven’t already, complete these activities:
  • If you’re not yet a member of the OpenLab (BMCC’s virtual campus), complete the sign up process (instructions)
  • Create (or update) your OpenLab profile and add a photo or image (instructions)
  • Introduce yourself on the Community Members page of our website (which also includes the Open Pedagogy Assignment Design seminar)

Thursday, June 8

2pm – 3:30pm

• Welcome & Questions
• x-assignment conversation
• Assignment cohorts
• “Small Kindnesses” by Danusha Laméris and the poem created by 1300 teenagers riffing

WEEK 2

**Prior to meeting Tuesday, June 13**

• Read about open pedagogy
• Watch the Introduction to Open Pedagogy video (approximately 1 hour) and post a reflection response
• Write a one-minute elevator speech for the assignment (or assignments) you are thinking about designing

Tuesday, June 13

• Assignment elevator speeches
• What is open pedagogy? What are the components and/or characteristics of an open pedagogy assignment?
• “Fire” by Judy Brown

**Prior to meeting Thursday June 15**

• Read about and apply backward design to your open pedagogy assignment

Thursday, June 15

• Open pedagogy definition and components conversation continued
• Applying backward design
• “Kindness” by Naomi Shihab Nye

WEEK 3

**Prior to meeting Tuesday, June 20**

Continue developing your assignment:

• Use our Things to Think About document as guidance
• By Monday, June 19, upload a working draft of your assignment to this Dropbox folder. Your draft should include at minimum three sections as suggested in “Surfacing Backward Design” and which do not need to be complete (notes that will be fleshed out are fine (especially for “here’s how”):
  • Here’s what I want you to do: I explain the task.
  • Here’s why I want you to do it: I explain the reason this task will contribute to the student’s success in class and beyond.
  • Here’s how to do it: I provide detailed instructions, rubrics, checklists, and exemplars to help students clearly see and understand my expectations.

Tuesday, June 20

• Applying UDL 
• Workshopping draft assignments – What do you need help thinking through?
• Excerpt from “Natural Resources” by Adrienne Rich

**Prior to meeting Thursday, June 22**

• Continue drafting assignments

Thursday, June 22

• Workshopping draft assignments continued
• “The Tiger” by Nael

WEEK 4

**Prior to Tuesday, June 27**

• Continue drafting assignments
• Read “What an Open Pedagogy Class Taught Me About Myself” which provides one student’s perspective on the impact of an open pedagogy assignment on their self-understanding. A few questions to consider:

Tuesday, June 27

• What do you need to get to penultimate draft of assignment?
• Hands on time
• “Compassion” by Miller Williams

**Prior to Thursday, June 29**

• Think about student agency and choice in relation to your assignment considering the questions in this document.
• Watch Unconditional Positive Regard (~ 8mins) and jot down ideas in response: 
  • How are or might you incorporate unconditional positive regard as an underpinning of your open pedagogy assignment?
  • How do or might you weave unconditional positive regard throughout your course

Thursday, June 29

• Student agency and choice
• Unconditional positive regard
• Postcard reflection
• “Hands” by Moya Cannon
• So long and thanks for all the fish!