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Clarifying Purpose through Transparent Learning Outcomes √ §

A Pathway to an Inclusive Syllabus

Location

Online

Date & Time

January 23, 2024, 12:00 pm1:00 pm

Description

Clarifying Purpose through Transparent Student Learning Outcomes: A Pathway to an Inclusive Syllabus

As spring semester approaches, you’ve probably already reviewed your course(s), revised your syllabus, and reset your energy levels. As you reflect on how the assignments work together to help students achieve the student learning outcomes, you begin to wonder if…
  • your course-level outcomes actually express your “desired results” for student learning; or
  • your course-level outcomes are clear to students (and other audiences); or
  • your students can connect these course-level outcomes to prior, concurrent, and future learning.
When you articulate what students will know and be able to do as a result of taking your course, you are working to create an inclusive, welcoming, and clear syllabus. Outcomes (sometimes called objectives or goals) and outcome alignment help students to see the significance of each course they take, organize their learning as developing experts, and catapult their learning forward with near and far transfer.

For this workshop, please have your syllabus and SLOs handy as we share best practices (with templates), collaborate to clarify your example outcomes, and discuss how to cultivate inclusive SLOs. As the requirements and procedures emerge for the 70 percent rule (aka the Transfer with Success Act) and accreditation renewal, efforts to clarify outcomes gain additional significance for our students’ success. FDC programs, services, and online resources are available to support your ongoing work.

Please click “Going Virtually” below to reserve your seat for this session, and we will send you a Google calendar invitation with a WebEx link one hour before the session. If you register less than an hour before the session, you will receive the WebEx link when you register. Please email fdc@umbc.edu if you have any questions. If you have registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may attend.

√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate

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