Two Easy PE Practices For Implementation in Any Course

March 17, 2020  (7:00-8:30pm, Eastern)

Part A: 7:00-7:45, Selecting Learning Skills for a Course 

Part B: 7:45-8:30, Creating a Facilitation Plan with Learning Skills in Mind

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Meeting ID: 345 523 761

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Read through this facilitation plan to find out what to do, how, where, and when! Pay SPECIAL attention to RED TEXT!

Facilitator(s)

Plan

  1. Read the assigned readings before the session for each part of the session (Part A and/or Part B) that you will attend. The instructions for the two parts of the workshop are available below. Click the title or "+" symbol to access that information!
  2. Answer the Exploration Questions on the forum for the session before the session begins.
  3. Actively contribute to the discussion exercises by playing one or more team roles used in Process Education teams.
Part A: Selecting Learning Skills for a Course

Why? (Part A)

Process Educators have both learning and growth goals for each of their courses. We are content experts in our respective areas and we have concrete disciplinary knowledge/skills that we want our students to master. We also believe in enduring learning skills that enhance transfer of disciplinary knowledge and that also better prepared students for life. This workshop will be centered around using the new classification of learning skills to extract a subset of appropriate skills to focus on in particular courses.

REQUIRED: The Classification of Learning Skills (html learning object; click the title to open)

  • Exploration Questions

Post answers to these BEFORE the session (click the button below when you're ready to post your answers...it will open the correct forum on the Member site, so be ready to log on!)

Pick a favorite/familiar course that you teach. Using the CLS learning object,

  1. Select and share 3 to 4 of the most important cognitive skills for emphasis in this course.
  2. Select and share 3 to 4 of the most important social and affective skills that would promote cooperative learning in this course as well as life contexts related to this course.
  3. Select and share 2 to 3 assessment/evaluation skills that you could feature in the course as part of demonstrating learning outcomes.

I'm ready to answer the Exploration Questions!

  • During the workshop
  1. Welcome (2 min)
  2. Brief summary of goals for session (3 min)
  3. Address what people wrote in their responses to the Exploration Questions (2 min)
  4. Q & A about topic/reading, and explain activity logistics (8 min)
  5. Activity: Share answers to the Exploration Questions within breakout groups. Itemize your top three insights and post these in the discussion forum. (20-25 min)

    6. I'm ready to post team insights!

  6. Reporting out from teams of top insights gained (5-10 min)
Part B: Creating a Facilitation Plan with Learning Skills in Mind

Why? (Part B)

To create robust educational outcomes we need solid curricula but we also need a plan for engaging students in that curricula and also promoting valuable life skills that can enrich performance in other settings. This session will examine components of a facilitation plan that seeks not only to achieve narrow disciplinary objectives but also prompts interventions that can promote life long learning skills.

REQUIRED: Creating a Facilitation Plan (Faculty Guidebook 3.2.5) (html; click the title open)

  • Exploration Questions

Post answers to these on the session discussion board BEFORE the session (click the button below when you're ready to post your answers...it will open the correct forum on the Member site, so be ready to log on!)

Obtain a copy of the facilitation plan template from the FGB module. Focus on section 6 in the facilitation plan. For a favorite/familiar course that you teach...

  1. What are the two most important situations that may affect performance in the classroom?
  2. What cognitive, social, and affective learning skills are linked to strong performance?
  3. What interventions explicitly address the use of learning skills in improving performance in the situations you identified in question 1?

I'm ready to answer the Exploration Questions!

  • During the workshop
  1. Welcome (2 min)
  2. Brief summary of goals for session (3 min)
  3. Address what people wrote in their responses to the Exploration Questions (2 min)
  4. Q & A about topic/reading, and explain activity logistics (8 min)
  5. Activity: Share answers to the Exploration Questions within breakout groups. Itemize your top three insights and post these in the discussion forum. (20-25 min)

    6. I'm ready to post team insights!

  6. Reporting out from teams of top insights gained (5-10 min)
  • After the workshop

I'm ready to Assess the Workshop!