Students can’t successfully climb the ladder to success if the rungs are missing. Ensuring all the rungs are in place in your course will assist your students in being successful. What is missing from your course? Join us as we help you build a successful scaffolding model for your course.
Goals:
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Participants will discuss what is meant by scaffolding.
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Participants will discuss challenges in their current curricula (courses) to identify gaps where additional scaffolding may be employed.
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Participants will apply scaffolding techniques to a teaching situation after completing a lesson planning template.
Description:
This will be a fun, interactive workshop so bring your laptops and mobile devices to complete the activities. We will share our years of experience with teaching and assisting faculty with their online course design with you. We will explore elements of good course design focusing on the value of a well-structured course. You will see examples showing how changing a course from grade-focused to learning-focused will increase student success. Scaffolding allows you to build on past experience and step each student through new concepts, activities, and ultimately successful completion of their assessments.
Participant groups will enroll in a Canvas lesson and complete the assessment. They will then use a guided lesson plan template to discuss what is missing and how the course could be improved. We will look at the outcomes and discuss the importance of aligning content, activities, and assessment and then examine the improved Canvas lesson and discuss how the improvements will foster student success.
Groups will participate in an “escape the room” activity demonstrating the importance of scaffolding and collaboration. We will then re-group to analyze the activity. We will explore techniques and ideas for collaborative scaffolding activities you can use as a model for your own course. Groups will discuss the importance of topic introduction, chunking and transitioning and how these elements of scaffolding improve student success.
Individuals in their groups will identify a challenge or gap in their own course. The group will then choose and discuss one of the challenges in depth and apply scaffolding techniques to improve and support students in successful completion of the course assessment.
Participants will be provided with electronic resources and guides to take-away to use for their future courses.