Tom Drummond#facdev #HigherEd #Education #edutooters im wondering about faculty opportunities and freedom. Do people have the choice to design their own courses from the ground up? For example, a program might agree on coordinated goals and assume individual faculty members could decide for themselves how their portion of that effort should be designed, what performances they would address, and invent their own sequence of experiences. That seems logical to me. Does that happen?
Gordon@tdrummon yes. My department (I’m a former chair) has always enjoyed the freedom of individualistic course design. The surveys are roughly the same with varied teaching methods. But new upper level courses are not strictly controlled
@ThisRunningLife As part of my exploration ot teaching and learning at our college I worked with a brilliant chemistry instructor of first year college general chemistry sequence. Not my field. We started with describing the outcome of the year to be, what we could see in the student work, not thinking about it as preparation for organic. In sum, the goal was “thinking like a chemist” and we could see that happen. The students saw themselves “thinking like a chemist,” too. Unusual. #Education