Last Day to Register for: Reading & Writing in the Disciplines Conference
Conference Theme: Focusing on Transparency in Learning and Teaching (TILT) and Transparent Assignment Design (TAD).
Friday, January 31, 2020—8:45 AM-12:00PM—Pender 4, Room 121 (3922 Pender Drive.)
Conference Agenda:
8:45-9:25 AM: Registration and Light Breakfast and Coffee
9:30-11:30 AM: Presentation on TILT/TAD with Dr. Mary-Ann Winkelmes
11:30-12:00 PM: Participant survey; end program
Conference Registration – Registration is limited to 80 participants and will close on or before 1/24/20. Don’t delay, register today!
Conference Program:
The Unwritten Rules of College: Creating Transparent Assignments that Increase Students’ Success Equitably
The new incoming majority student population in US higher education is increasingly diverse, multi-generational and non-traditional, and faculty must provide equitable educational opportunities for a broad variety of learners in each college course. A 2016 Association of American Colleges & Universities publication identifies transparent assignment design as a replicable teaching intervention that significantly enhances students’ learning and persistence, with greater gains for historically underserved students [Winkelmes et al, Peer Review, Spring 2016]. Transparent teaching/learning practices make learning processes explicit while offering opportunities to foster students’ metacognition, confidence, and their sense of belonging in college via faculty/student discussion about the relevant knowledge, skills to be practiced, required tasks, expected criteria and examples before students begin working. We’ll review the findings as well as educational research behind the concept of transparent teaching/learning in this session. Then we’ll apply that research to the design of class activities and assignments. Participants will leave with a draft assignment or activity for one of their courses, and a concise set of strategies for designing transparent assignments that promote students’ learning equitably.
Questions or concerns – contact atd@nvcc.edu