College Teaching and Learning Science
This is a three course bundle: Adult Learners and The College Environment, Best Practices in College Teaching and Assessment of Learning and Evaluating Teaching. These 3 courses cover the critical teaching knowledge, skills and modalities needed to succeed in the changing climate of higher education. The goal of the courses are to enhance exposure to learner-centered teaching, culturally-responsive instruction, alignment in assessment, and the use of the action research cycle to meet the varied learning needs of the new majority of students.
Earning Criteria
- Earning a Pass upon course completion
Additional Details
Learning Outcomes
Participants will acquire the foundational skills to begin to:
- Demonstrate the use of learning science principles and beginning application to the diverse needs of college learners in the college environment.
- Recognize and begin to seek evidenced-based strategies and approaches to engage diverse college learners using a learner centered approach.
- Identify and ascribe to best practices, effective pedagogical strategies, meaningful application of technology, and action research in curriculum and course development.
- Identify when evaluation and assessment of learning is in alignment with course outcomes.
- Identify the need for self-reflective behaviors to determine the effectiveness of the teaching and learning experience.
- Demonstrate the use of learning science principles and beginning application to the diverse needs of college learners in the college environment.
- Recognize and begin to seek evidenced-based strategies and approaches to engage diverse college learners using a learner centered approach.
- Identify and ascribe to best practices, effective pedagogical strategies, meaningful application of technology, and action research in curriculum and course development.
- Identify when evaluation and assessment of learning is in alignment with course outcomes.
- Identify the need for self-reflective behaviors to determine the effectiveness of the teaching and learning experience.
Time
12 Week
Details about the Program
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