When you’re teaching a course you’ve never taught before, it can be challenging to know where to start — especially if you’re still fairly new to teaching. How do you make good decisions about which topics to cover, what to assign, or what to do in class? This workshop will introduce participants to backward design, an approach to course design that focuses on producing student learning. Participants will have the chance to practice working through the first few steps of the backward design process — clarifying the goals they have for students and choosing assignments that are aligned with course goals — in an environment where they have the feedback and support of other graduate instructors at Ohio State.

After this workshop participants will be able to: 

You may register here (link is external).

If you have registered for this event, or are on the waitlist and require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate, please contact drakeinstitute@osu.edu. Requests should be made at least two weeks prior to the event, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

All members of the university community are welcome in Drake Institute activities, programs, services, and employment —regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, HIV/AIDS status, military status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other bases under the law.

Institute for Teaching and Learning programming is offered in accordance with university guidelines associated with in-person and remote activities. The Institute will inform registrants of delivery modifications should those guidelines change.
 

RSVP for the workshop with the CLSE here as well as at the event webpage linked above.

 

Following the workshop, email Erica Szeyller.1 to confirm your attendance for the full event time. If you were not able to attend the full event, email Erica Szeyller.1 to discuss the possibility of 5001 course points.