MEETING 4: What We'll Do
Today we will have a one-on-one Assignment Charrette. Assignment building is often done in a solitary way but a charrete—a term borrowed from architecture education—encourages a group to share ideas and participate in a collaborative design process. The process aims to stimulate ideas about how to strengthen assignments; to think about how assignments can be intentionally linked to course, program, and institutional learning outcomes; and to open up a productive discussion about learning and assessment. We will be doing this one-on-one so we will have greater flexibility, however, before we are done, we will cover the questions in Assignment Design Review Worksheet
Download Assignment Design Review Worksheet.
What to Bring
- Your ideas for a major assignment or set of scaffolded assignments.
- Questions or doubts you have about the assignment so that we can talk those through.
What We'll Do
- We will begin by you explaining your assignment design(s) and then go through some of the questions on the Assignment Design Review Worksheet Download Assignment Design Review Worksheet. We will refine as needed.
- We will also talk about the Paper Map that you will develop before our next meeting.
What to Do Before We Meet Again
- Create a paper map. Over the years, faculty have found that creating a paper map of their course is one of the most helpful exercises in course design. At our next meeting we will translate what you have on paper into a Canvas map—a bare bones outline of your course, or what we sometimes refer to as a course skeleton.
- Continue refining your assignments and your paper map as needed. We will continue working on it in our next meeting, when we will move the map into Canvas. (See Homework.)