Aligning Outcomes, Assessment, and Activities

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When planning significant learning environments for our students we have to think about the goals we have for their learning, the activities they will engage in, and how we can assess their learning. To do this we must plan our courses, and every learning segment within them, with the end-goal in mind. Below, you will find a plan for creating a significant learning environment for the "Triangle Trig" unit of my precalculus course.  This plan is based on Fink's Guide to Designing Courses for Significant Learning (Fink, 2003)

 

In my innovation proposal, I discuss allowing students to use interactive videos and activities to introduce lesson topics enabling students to learn at their own pace and allowing them more class time for discourse and questioning. In my plan below, I have included interactive video lessons and games as foundational learning activities. The additional activities involve group activity and discourse where students must discuss their learning to meet the goals of the course.

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