Example Programs
1-Day Workshop Program
NOTE: The activities included in each session will be tailored to the selected themes.
Homework: Participants read pre-workshop material drawn from activities related to the selected themes. Participants come to the workshop with either a new or existing course into which they will integrate materials developed during the workshop.
8:30–8:45 AM Welcome and Introductions
- Goals of workshop
- Discussion: Why incorporate societally relevant materials?
8:45–9:00 AM Linking Learning about the Earth and Societal Issues: Course design considerations
- Think-Pair-Share Activity on a "significant learning" experience
9:00–10:00 AM Backward Design: Big Ideas/Enduring Concepts, and Essential Questions
10:00–10:30 AM Articulating course-level (aspirational or visionary) goals for student learning
- Complete the Teaching Goals Inventory to help you "discover" the goals of your teaching
- Example Syllabus for Mineralogy Course (Acrobat (PDF) 5.5MB Oct23 15) illustrating how big ideas, essential questions, and course-level goals can be implemented in a syllabus
10:30–10:45 AM Break
10:45–12:00 PM Instructional Design (Aligning Learning Outcomes and Assessments)
- Warm-up Activity: Outcome-Assessment Alignment
- Introduction to Bloom's Taxonomy
- Activity: Write Learning Outcomes for your Context
- Activity: Write Assessments Aligned with your Learning Outcomes
- Reflection and Action Planning
12:00–1:00 PM Lunch
1:00–2:20 PM Instructional Design (Metacognition and Motivation)
- Initial Reflection
- "Stage View" Activity: Engage in a Content-Rich Active Learning Experience
- "Balcony View" Activity: Analyze this lesson for key research-based components
2:20–2:30 PM Break
2:30–4:00 PM Instructional Design (Active Learning)
- Work on design of activity or on incorporation of strategy across whole course (40 minutes)
- Check for alignment between activity and learning outcomes. Turn to your neighbor and review each others' activity-outcome alignment (10 minutes)
- Building on action plan steps developed in previous units, compile an action plan that will support successful completion of workshop activities and implementation into a specific course, including resources for future work (10 minutes)
4:00–4:30 PM Work time on instructional design, alignment and action planning
4:30–5:30 PM Strategies for Ongoing Improvement & Workshop Assessment
- Complete and Save Action Plan
- Small-group and full-group discussion about getting feedback from colleagues, students, and the community
- Being strategic about making big changes
- Become an NAGT member
- Complete Workshop Evaluation