1. Updating Curriculum to Support Learning Davidson County Community College May, 2011

2. Model for Updating Curriculum to Improve Teaching and Learning Write TeachAssess Improve Write the Outcomes Improve the Curriculum Teach to the Outcomes Assess The Outcomes

3. Model for Updating Curriculum to Improve Teaching and Learning StageDescription Define the desired student learning outcomes using action verbs and different levels of critical thinking. Create the learning activities that provide the opportunities for students to meet learning outcomes. Assess student progress to ensure that the student learning outcome has been met. Evaluate tests to determine if they measure outcomes. Use the result of assessment to make improvement in the curriculum to improve teaching and learning. Write Teach Assess Improve

4. Module Two Teach to the Outcomes Davidson County Community College May, 2011

5. Faculty Outcomes 1.Identify your current methods of teaching. 2.Use Bloom’s Taxonomy to select, adapt, and design teaching methods/learning experiences and assignments. 3.Create assignments that provide opportunities for students to achieve student learning outcomes. 4.Discuss the relationship between achievement of SLOs and using appropriate teaching methods/learning experiences and assignments. 5.Use a tracking matrix to document appropriate learning experiences/teaching methods and assignments to achieve a specific SLO. Faculty Outcomes 1.Identify your current methods of teaching. 2.Use Bloom’s Taxonomy to select, adapt, and design teaching methods/learning experiences and assignments. 3.Create assignments that provide opportunities for students to achieve student learning outcomes. 4.Discuss the relationship between achievement of SLOs and using appropriate teaching methods/learning experiences and assignments. 5.Use a tracking matrix to document appropriate learning experiences/teaching methods and assignments to achieve a specific SLO.

6. Teach Stage Two: Teach the Outcomes Teach How do I teach in order to help students achieve the outcomes?

7. Activities & Assignments = “Students Learning Experiences” which = Your Teaching Methods

8. Your Turn 1.Think of the best teacher you have ever had. Write his/her characteristics on page 3. 2.Secondly, identify the teaching techniques this teacher used that were most helpful to your learning.

9. Your Turn 1.At your table, come up with as many different ways of teaching you can in three minutes. 2.When time is up, compare your table’s list with those defined on page 4.

10. Teaching Formats and Methods I Use Case Study Clinical Cooperative Learning CATs Laboratory Interactive Lecture Straight Lecture Problem Based Learning Role Play Simulation/ Games Skill - Activity Service Learning

11. Application Cards Choices Concept Maps Graphic Organizers In the News Tool Box of Alternative Assignments and Teaching Techniques

12. Quick Thinks Media Diary Reflection Prompts Time Topic Traveling Folder Tool Box of Alternative Assignments and Teaching Techniques

13. Writing Student Learning Outcomes Create Evaluate Analyze Apply Understand Remember “Begin with an end in mind.” Stephen Covey Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy

14. Your Turn 1.Write outcomes from your course syllabus in the column on the left. Indicate in the middle column what level of Bloom’s taxonomy the outcome on the left is written. 2.Then, select a teaching activity from those discussed today or create a new approach that would appropriately teach to the outcome desired.

15. Your Turn 1.Work with a partner to identify changes you will make as a result of this workshop to become a more effective teacher. 2.Explain strategies you would use to implement these changes.