Course Title: Educational Change
Big Dream: Reimagining Education*
Rethink
Reinvention
Reflection
Specialist Knowledge
Creative Thinking
Critical Thinking
Leadership
Communication
Decision Making
Self-Directed Learning
Self-Modification
Self-Awareness
Learning Outcome:
Compare and contrast educational change theories and articulate their conceptions of educational change.
Foundational Knowledge
Learning how to learn
Reposition
Problem Posing
Appreciative Inquiry
Social & Environmental Awareness
Learning Outcomes:
- Examine educational innovations, identify gaps and suggest improvement.
- Discover and share successful factors emerging as unique in educational innovations.
Application
Care
Learning Outcome:
Organize and Lead a collaborative educational change project
Human Dimension (others)
Integration
Learning Outcome:
Self-assess performance and identify core learning needs
Learning how to Learn
Human Dimension (Self)
Assessment (Diagnostic & Formative)
Students' levels of understanding regarding educational change theories.
Assessment (Formative & Summative)
- Degree of changes in students' conceptions of educational change
Assessment (Formative & Summative)
Students' analysis skills to calculate problems
Assessment (Formative and Summative)
Students' ability to explore the best of what is, consider alternatives and articulate what might be
Appreciative Inquiry
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Assessment (Formative & Summative) -Students' ability to collectively think of an ideal situation, design a project based on that and execute their project.
Assessment (Diagnostic, Formative and Summative)
- Students' skills of evaluating their experiences, understanding of core qualities and demonstration of learning attitude to modify performance
My own ability to help students successfully organize and lead an educational change project.
Assessment Tasks & Strategies
- Pre-post online tasks (Diagnostic and Formative)
- Review and Critique key texts (Formative)
- Peer and faculty evaluation of the first draft of the frameworks using predetermined criteria (Formative)
- Peer and faculty evaluation of the revised draft of the educational change framework using the same criteria (Summative)
Assessment Tasks
- Discussion forums (Formative)
- Written review of an educational innovation (Summative)
Assessment Task
- Making of the Role Play (Formative - Planning process, team work, distribution of roles and responsibilities, written script drafts)
- Role Play (Summative - planning process, written script and performance)
My own learning from my students' experiences in order to modify my teaching.
Assessment Task
- Ongoing Written Reflections (Formative)
- Reflection on the educational project (Summative)
- Self-evaluation