Ungrading Book Chapters Discussion √ §
Part of the FDC Advanced Topics Series!
Location
Online
Date & Time
February 16, 2022, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm
Description
Grades are so central to education today that it can be difficult to
imagine teaching and learning experiences without them. Conventional
wisdom at UMBC whispers that students will not complete work unless it
is clearly tied to points. What happens when educators move away from
grading’s extrinsic rewards and work to cultivate intrinsic motivation
and love for learning? What if you had other ways to give students
feedback, motivate them, and still meet the registrar’s grade deadline?
Explore these ideas with your colleagues in a continuing discussion of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) by Susan Blum, 2020. Our second discussion focuses on:
√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
Explore these ideas with your colleagues in a continuing discussion of Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) by Susan Blum, 2020. Our second discussion focuses on:
- Riesbeck’s “Critique-Driven Learning and Assessment” (Chapter 8, pp 123-139),
- Schulz-Bergin’s “Grade Anarchy in the Philosophy Classroom” (Chapter 11, pp. 173-187), and
- Blum’s “Not Simple But Essential” (Conclusion, pp. 219-228).
- February 15: focus on arts, humanities, and social science classes
- February 16: focus on STEM classes
- Log into myUMBC
- Go to the AOK Library Website
- In the AOK OneSearch box, type the book title and press Search
- Locate the ebook, and click on the link to Online Access under the descriptive information
While you are welcome to join both sessions, only one session can count toward the ALIT or INNOVATE Certificate programs.
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
The Advanced Topics Series
Launched in September 2021!
Sessions in this series are designed to delve deeper into special topics that synthesize multiple research-based ideas for cultivating student learning. During these sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will support your efforts to energize your classroom with classic and cutting-edge pedagogical approaches that will help you to...
Launched in September 2021!
Sessions in this series are designed to delve deeper into special topics that synthesize multiple research-based ideas for cultivating student learning. During these sessions, faculty and staff colleagues will support your efforts to energize your classroom with classic and cutting-edge pedagogical approaches that will help you to...
- Identify how to integrate complex learning science applications into your course design and delivery,
- Challenge your higher order thinking skills to investigate and assess new ways to foster student success, and
- Connect and collaborate with colleagues seeking to create exemplary learning exercises and environments across courses and learning opportunities.
- aspire to complicate and build on core pedagogical knowledge shared in other FDC programs, or
- wish to cultivate and apply learning research to innovative, engaging, and effective classroom practices.