Learning Outcomes
- Identify current uses of asset-based pedagogies in courses, including culturally sustaining pedagogy and trauma-informed pedagogy
- Design learning experiences with asset-based pedagogies
- Apply universal design for learning to course assignments and activities
- Use backward design to plan a class session or unit/module
- Identify content/materials needed for learning outcomes and learning experiences by applying backward design
- Find open educational resources (OER) for the content identified through backward design process
- Choose Creative Commons licenses for sharing own work
WEEK 1
Tuesday, January 3,
2-4pm
- While we’re waiting: Write down a song (title and artist) that represents for you the joy, hope, or liberation of learning
- Welcome
- Getting to know each other: Team Tally
- Thinking about pedagogy, part 1
- Considering the reading for today, how does OER (and open pedagogy) relate to your teaching and learning philosophy? Record ideas in group notes.
- Situating our work within asset pedagogies
- Trauma informed teaching and learning
Prior to meeting Thursday, January 5:
- Introduce yourself on the Community Members page of our seminar site (link in menu above).
- Read: Preparing a Learning-Focused Syllabus and Liquid Syllabus
- Reflection: 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?
- REMINDER: SOC faculty will meet 12-2pm on Thursday, all other cohorts will meet 2-4pm.
Thursday, January 5
2-4pm
- Welcome
- Syllabus convo
- Cohort groups
- What the heck is ZTC? OER?
WEEK 2
**Prior to Tuesday, Jan 10**
- Deeper dive into asset pedagogies
- Read “What Is Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy and Why Does It Matter?” (sent by email) – How are you already engaging with and how might you expand CSP in your teaching and through your course materials?
- Explore Universal Design for Learning (UDL) – Where are you currently applying UDL concepts and where might they be expanded in your course activities and materials?
- Explore no-cost materials through the Library, freely available on the web, and on OER sites:
Tuesday, January 10
2-4pm
- CSP Conversation
- What resonated for you in Paris & Alim’s conception of CSP?
- What is one example from your own teaching of how you incorporate CSP concepts into your courses?
- How might you apply CSP as you redesign your course?
- UDL Conversation
- How might you apply multiple means of engagement to your course?
- What are OER? What’s ZTC? (no-cost materials definitions handout, also linked above)
**Prior to Thursday, Jan 12**
- Watch Creative Commons Licenses Explained (5 mins)
- Read about CC Licenses
- Bonus video: Copying Is Not Theft (1 min)
Thursday, January 12
SOC 12 – 2pm, all other cohorts 2 – 4pm
- Creative Commons licenses
- Disciplinary groups
WEEK 3
**Prior to Tuesday, January 17**
- By Monday, January 16 at 12pm, send an email to oer@bmcc.cuny.edu describing one or two examples of material that you’ve wondered if you could use without violating copyright in a past or present course. We’ll anonymize these and use them for discussion.
- Watch Fair Use (4 mins), and read about the Fair use Checklist.
- Bonus bonus video: Copyright Is Brain Damage (18 mins)
- When considering and enacting asset pedagogies, such as open pedagogy and culturally sustaining pedagogy (CSP), we often focus on single classrooms rather than systems/structures. CSP acknowledges and addresses “communities who have been and continue to be damaged and erased through schooling” (Paris & Alim). Equity-centered trauma-informed education, as conceived by Alex Shevrin Venet, recognizes that schooling plays a role “in causing and worsening trauma because of the role of schools in perpetuating oppression.” After reading “Defining Trauma-Informed Education” (from Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education by Alex Shevrin Venet, sent by email), reflect on the following questions in preparation for conversation next Tuesday:
- How might engaging with systems/structures identified in CSP and trauma-informed education influence what we do in our classrooms with our students?
- What practices at BMCC and/or in our departments and classes possibly replicate/cause trauma?
- How have you or how can you incorporate CSP and trauma-informed practices into the redesign of your courses?
Tuesday, January 17
2 – 4pm
- Trauma-informed education conversation
- Copyright and fair use discussion and scenarios
**Prior to Thursday, January 19**
- Continue to redesign your course with OER and other no-cost resources.
- Bring any lingering Creative Commons, copyright, and fair use questions.
Thursday, January 19
- Continuation of copyright and fair use discussion
- Disciplinary groups
- Reflection