Graduate Teaching Toolkit: Beginning Steps of Course Design

In this workshop, participants will gain familiarity with backward design: an approach to course design that builds on instructional goals to derive outcomes, assessments, and teaching strategies. We will outline the process of backward design, explore the key benefits of this method, and give participants time to apply the initial steps of this process as they prototype goals, outcomes, and assessments for a current, future, or hypothetical course that they would like to design. 

Lunch will be provided.

As a result of attending GTA Toolkit, participants will: 

• summarize the steps of the backward design process
• articulate the benefits of using backward design to plan a course
• apply the initial steps of backward design by prototyping course goals and learning outcomes as well as assessment plans aligned with this vision
• begin to collect the information and resources you will need to finish the course design process on your own

You may register here.

If you have registered for this event, or are on the waitlist and require an accommodation such as live captioning or interpretation to participate, please contact drakeinstitute@osu.edu. Requests should be made at least two weeks prior to the event, but the university will make every effort to meet requests made after this date.

All members of the university community are welcome in Drake Institute activities, programs, services, and employment —regardless of age, ancestry, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity or expression, genetic information, HIV/AIDS status, military status, national origin, pregnancy, race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, or any other bases under the law.

Institute for Teaching and Learning programming is offered in accordance with university guidelines associated with in-person and remote activities. The Institute will inform registrants of delivery modifications should those guidelines change.