Facilitating Learning & Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)

0 Unit · Graduate

Providing multiple ways for students to express what they know and undertaking systematic inquiry about student learning are two approaches towards reflectively creating an inclusive course. Teacher-scholars in the ‘Facilitating Learning & the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL)’ course are invited to analyze and reflect on their commitment to teaching through in-depth discussions of topics such as methods for facilitating student learning, equitable cooperative learning practices, and key characteristics of SoTL. We define artifacts as evidence of the work that instructors do in preparation for and in reflection upon their work with students. By the end of the course, participants have developed and received feedback on their artifacts, which models the practice of “authentic assessment” involving complex tasks and real-world challenges (Wiggins, 2006). Not only will these artifacts demonstrate emerging understanding of approaches to teaching and learning, developing a lesson plan, for example, will be implementable in the future.