Welcome!
I’ve been following Fink’s Self-Directed Guide to Significant Learning to work through the planning process for my online teaching and learning experience. I’m finding the integrated process to be very beneficial. Starting off with what you’d like the students to learn and be able to do and using that to guide the rest, just makes sense. I’m finding that I have to rethink my planning process though. In the social-emotional focused courses I teach, I’ve fallen in the habit of starting with content and the types of activities and assignments I’d like to do and basing the learning goals on those.
If you haven’t had a chance yet, you can stop by my previous post to read about the situational factors I have considered.
The following link will take you to my design plan. If you like the format, I recommend checking out the forms found on the Dee Fink & Associates website.
Please comment below with feedback, it would be most appreciated!
February 23, 2021 at 4:48 pm
Hey Kate,
I love your writing voice for the project, especially in the Situational Factors section.
The overall Online Design Plan is clear and concise with a number of good resources.
I really like the Muddiest Point Strategy, which gets the students to write down the most confusing parts of the lesson for them (I want to research this more and potentially use it for my own project. It might be really effective with ESL students).
I don’t believe I saw an Integration section. Will you be providing one for the final?
Great draft so far,
Michael
February 26, 2021 at 7:23 am
Thank you for noticing that I was missing the integration section – a benefit of sharing with classmates! Going to work on that right now…
February 23, 2021 at 7:16 pm
Hi,
Thanks for sharing your online design plan and the link to the Dee Fink & Associates Website as I found it quite useful especially the template. It found it helpful as I could more easily plan the activities and ended up using it for my own design plan. You have done a great job with your design plan and the flow of activities is clear. I like the fact that students are given an opportunity to self-evaluate themselves. I also like that you have included the link to the various materials you will be using for the course as it it gives a better sense of what the lessons will be about.
February 24, 2021 at 10:31 am
Hi Kate,
I too, wanted to thank you for sharing the link to the Design Learning website. I found the Building the Units in a Course form very helpful. As your Online Design Plan Draft illustrates, it helps the designer produce easy to follow and structured units. The chart format keeps your information organized and simple to navigate for your students or anyone wanting to teach this unit themselves. You also have done a nice job of focusing on exactly what you are wanting your students to accomplish as far as primary learning outcomes. I am wondering how you are monitoring the students’ weekly independent yoga practice. Are they required to send in any videos or photos of themselves? Is mastery of any yoga poses a component of their overall grade? Nice work, Kate.
Aaron
February 26, 2021 at 7:48 am
Great questions. I have used time-lapse videos in the past to monitor and check on independent practice, quick and easy! In the outreach setting, I find our demographic tends to be very camera shy so I leave this out. They do fill out a log after every practice. Some will report “I stayed in savasana during the class” but acknowledge the benefits of having found stillness and relaxed their mind. Questions in their journal help tie everything together. Mastery of the asanas isn’t part of their grade at all. Improvements in flexibility, range of motion, and strength do become part of their grade in the sense that we do an “exit interview” where they pick a set number of asanas and walk us through benefits, contraindications, the use of props… and then their own personal growth with regards to the asana. Sometimes this is in person, sometimes on video. The majority of students really want to do this in person though! Hope the ramble answers the question. Have a great day Aaron!