Course title

FROM A FRESH START TO A VICTORIOUS FINISH

How to lead a student from a beginner to an advanced?

Course description:

What is the course about?

What do the participants learn?

Professional academic teachers are student’s mentors. They show them goals worth doing the best. They advise them the way to achieve the goals. They also tell them how far they are already on their development paths. To do that, it is worth to take a course and find out, how to work with goals and achievements to makes lecturer’s and student’s life easier. Thanks to the course, you will make your students 100% sure, what is expected from them during your classes. Thanks to simple educational techniques, your students will feel interested (not bored, overwhelmed nor lost). You will learn how to communicate ambitious goals to awaken and maintain student’s motivation. You will also experience different ways of doing tests and giving feedback. Thanks to this, your classes will gain predictability. You will be seen as a fair, effective and supportive teacher. Thanks to that, your job would be much more purposeful, easier and effective.

Benefits:

1. Your students will understand what you want from them.

2. It will be easier for you to attract the attention to your subject.

3. You will see how they progress on their development paths.

4. You will be seen as a fair, effective and supportive teacher.

5. Your job would be much more purposeful, easier and effective.

Main topics:

(min.6 )

1. Topic 1: Concepts and definitions

   1. Knowledge

   2. Intellectual skills

   3. Social skills

2. Topic 2: What does the science say about learning?

   1. Deep learning

   2. Surface learning

   3. Prior knowledge

   4. Goals setting

3. Topic 2: START – implementation of didactic goals

   1. SMART

   2. Bloom’s Taxonomy

4. Topic 3: FINISH – feedback and assessment criteria („rubrics”)

   1. How does feedback affect learning?

   2. How to create “rubrics”?

Author:

Agnieszka Kozłowska – Instructional designer

Centre of Instructional Design and Teaching Methods

Partner University:

WSB University in Poznań, Poland