Designing Classrooms that Promote Learner’s Awareness

Event Date & Time

Event Description

Promoting student’s own awareness when learning cultivates mastery of the course. However, how can we achieve this goal? One way to resolve this objective is to have learners feel like they are part of the learning community in the classroom. As instructors, we can design lessons to promote our learner’s ability to reflect and monitor their own learning. When learners begin to deliberate about the process of “how they learn”, they begin to reflect about their role as a student in the classroom and in the discipline. Join us in this interactive workshop, to collaboratively explore these questions and develop strategies to design lessons that guide students through the learning process in the classroom.

This workshop is for participants with working knowledge of basic lesson components (learning objective, motivation, active learning, assessment) as acquired through an Instructional Skills Workshop (ISW) or other professional development workshops. We strongly recommend refreshing your understanding of these components as we will be building on these components in this workshop. This event is part of the Grad Mini Conference. See below for a full outline of events.

By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:

1. Design a lesson that is well-aligned to course objectives while providing learners space to monitor and reflect on their thinking and learning
2. Appreciate the impact of well-designed lessons to support learning in the classroom and discipline

Facilitated by: Mabel Ho, Arnab Ray & Jens Vent Schmidt

Grad Mini Conference Schedule

Day 1: 9:15-4:45

Day 2: 9:30-4:30