Course Information | Instructor Information |
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EDEP 6644: College Teaching | Peter Doolittle |
1750 Kraft Drive • Room 2102 (map) | 220 Public Safety Building |
Thursdays, 7:00 pm - 9:50 pm | pdoo@vt.edu |
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Students will understand the integrated and adaptive nature of human learning and will be able to apply, strategically and purposefully, fundamental learning principles to the creation of student-centered instructional environments. (LEARNING)
Students will purposefully engage in designing instructional environments that emphasize big ideas and focus on the development of deep and flexible learning. (PLANNING)
Students will view assessment primarily as a component of student learning, and only secondarily, as a component of what students have learned, and will purposefully integrate assessment into instruction. (ASSESSMENT)
Students will appreciate and purposefully take into account the institutional, cultural, and physical contexts within which college teaching occurs. (CONTEXT)
Students will purposefully implement instruction that focuses on and fosters deep and flexible student learning. (TEACHING)
The course, in pursuit of its three primary questions, is structured in several parts: