1. Incorporating InTeGrate Materials into your Course and Syllabus
November 30, 2017
Hannah Scherer, Virginia Tech

2. Webinar Goals
Facilitate planning for incorporating InTeGrate modules into your course
Share resources for further exploration
Answer questions!

3. Guiding principles
Address one or more geoscience-related grand challenges facing society
Develop student ability to address interdisciplinary problems
Improve student understanding of the nature and methods of geoscience and developing geoscientific habits of mind
Make use of authentic and credible geoscience data to learn central concepts in the context of geoscience methods of inquiry
Develop students’ ability and propensity to use systems thinking
 geoscientific thinking skills

4. If you could choose one thing…
NAGT-TWP Course Design Workshop
23 October 2015
If you could choose one thing…
What would you want students to remember from your course in (5, 10, 20) years? How do we design courses that facilitate this process?

5. NAGT-TWP Course Design Workshop
23 October 2015
Course Design
List Course Topics
Design Instruction
Design Exams/Papers
“Traditional”
= instructor-centered
Typical syllabus
Week 1: Chapter 1
Week 2: Chapter 2 …
Typically graded based on
1-2 midterms
Final
Wiggins and McTighe (1998)

6. NAGT-TWP Course Design Workshop
23 October 2015
Course Design
Identify outcomes: what you want students to know and be able to do
Figure out how you will know that they know
Design activities that help them succeed
“Backward”
= learner-centered
Typical syllabus
Learning goals
Organization of course …
Typically graded based on
Weekly assignments
Projects
Wiggins and McTighe (1998)

7. Backward Design Identify desired results  learning goals/outcomes
Enduring understandings: that one thing…
Course-level outcomes: aspirational and substantial
Unit-level outcomes: achievable and measurable
Goals should “bundle up”
Determine acceptable evidence  assessment
Consider a wide range of assessments
Match assessments to learning outcomes
Plan learning experiences
Use instructional strategies that foster engagement
Design activities that give students practice

8. NAGT-TWP Course Design Workshop
23 October 2015
Backward Design
Identify Desired
Results
Determine
Acceptable
Evidence
Plan Learning
Experiences
and Instruction
Wiggins and McTighe (1998)

9. Participant poll
In the chat box, please indicate if you have already chosen a module to incorporate into your course (yes or no)
If yes, which one?
If no, where are you in the process?

10. Resource pages (using InTeGrate)
Using InTeGrate modules and courses
How the Community is Using InTeGrate Materials

11. Action Plan Guiding questions to help facilitate your process
(overview with examples and resources)

12. Goals/Objectives
What are the objectives (content) that you are addressing in your course using the selected InTeGrate module?  
Have you included those objectives in this course before?  If so, how did you teach the material and assess those objectives?  If not, why are you including them now?

13. Goals/Objectives Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources
A Growing Concern

14. Teaching approach
Describe the pedagogical techniques you will use to facilitate the InTeGrate activities and reinforce the content.
Note that this will require you to spend some time reading through the units in the module to familiarize yourself with the way they are structured and what techniques are utilized.

15. Teaching approach
Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources: think-pair-share
A Growing Concern: Guided interactive lecture

16. Resource Pages (pedagogy)
Interactive Lecture Techniques
Pedagogy in Action: Teaching Methods

17. Adaptations
What adaptations, if any, are you making to the InTeGrate materials to fit your course?  What adaptations to your course are you making to fit the InTeGrate materials?

18. Adaptations Map Your Hazards
A Growing Concern

19. Assessments
How will you use the module assessments to measure your objectives?
Consider both formative and summative assessments that are part of the module and how you will incorporate them into the grading structure for your course.

20. Assessments
Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources: Formative Assessment
A Growing Concern: Summative assessment

21. Syllabus
What modifications do you need to make to your syllabus to communicate expectations for the InTeGrate module activities and assessments to your students?

22. Syllabus Environmental Justice and Freshwater Resources
A Growing Concern

23. Lingering questions and next steps
What questions do you still have about how you will implement the InTeGrate materials?
What do you need to get done before implementation (e.g. modify handout 3 to include more information on ecosystem services)? This will be your “to do” list moving forward.