Creating an Inclusive Syllabus using Learning Outcomes √ §

At midsummer, your syllabus may include glimpses of your teaching philosophy, requirements, assignments, logistics, and resources. Plus you’ve drafted your vision for an inclusive classroom culture. But your eyes keep scanning the section on student learning outcomes (SLOs) (everyone has been talking about SLOs and the 70 percent rule, aka the Transfer with Success Act), and you ….

• aren’t sure if your course-level outcomes express your “desired results” for student learning; or
• aren’t sure if your course-level outcomes are clear to students (and other audiences); or
• aren’t sure how to help students link course-level outcomes to prior, concurrent, and future learning.

When you articulate what students will know and be able to do by the end of your course, in connection with their other learning, you are working to create an inclusive, welcoming, and clear syllabus. For this workshop, please have your syllabus and SLOs handy as we share best practices (with templates), collaborate to clarify your example outcomes, and discuss how to cultivate inclusive SLOs. Plus, we’ll share enhanced online resources to support your efforts.

Please click “Going Virtually” below to reserve your seat for this session, and we will send you a Google calendar invitation with a WebEx link one hour before the session. If you register less than an hour before the session, you will receive the WebEx link when you register. Please email fdc@umbc.edu if you have any questions. If you have registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may attend.
√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate
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