1. Designing Assignments Preparation checklist

2. 1. What are the main objectives for your course? 2. What are the main units in your course, and how long do you spend on each of them? 3. What are your main learning objectives for each of these units? 4. Based on previous experience with your students in this course, what units of your course do students seem to have the most trouble? 5. For each unit, what thinking skills are you trying to develop? (for example: ways of observing, questioning strategies, uses of evidence, habits of mind in your discipline). 6. What differences do you want my course to make in my student’s intellectual and personal development? Source: Bean,

3. Goals for Today’s Workshop