• May 21, 2008

    Reading:

    • Chapter 5 of the Ramsden book
    • Designing Courses from the Stanford University CTL Newsletter
    • Description of Benjamin Bloom’s Taxonomy of Educational Objectives
      Follow the link “using the Taxonomy for designing writing assignments” embedded in this article. It provides a helpful list of verbs to use in constructing assignments and exam questions at the various levels of the taxonomy.
    • Promoting Students’ Intellectual Growth by Marva Barnett (Optional)
      This article will be useful if you would like more information about the idea of stages of intellectual development, and it provides some good generic ideas about activities likely to facilitate students’ progress with respect to these stages and in learning to think critically generally.

    Writing:

    • Prepare a draft of either your course syllabus or your teaching philosophy statement. You may submit this to me by email or print it and give it to me in class on the 21st.
    • Prior to the class meeting on the 21st post brief replies to two of the postings in the “May 14 Response Papers” category of the Dialogue Forum. If you have not already submitted a response yourself in this category, please add it to the forum right away.