Course Review and Reflections

Agenda for today’s class (70 minutes)

Final CATME Reviews
(70 minutes) Course Review

1. Course Surveys

Please use time in class today to fill out all of the following end-of year surveys. The SPLS opens on Friday the 17th

2. Course Review

Today I would like you to think about ways to improve this course for students in the future. We talked about this a bit but we are looking for ideas that we can implement in the classroom, the assignments, etc to help prepare students for the open nature of the projects and help them learn and be successful.

Most of todays reflection will be done as a class or in your group. If there is something you want us to know, but don’t feel comfortable sharing with the rest of the class, please email or talk to the instructors individually.

Step 1: Review Course goals and syllabus

To start lets review the slides and syllabus from day one. We can go over this quickly. I am interested to see if my plan for the semester met our expectations.

Step 2: Group breakout

In your groups, I would like you to think about at least two bullet points for each of the following (you will be sharing this with the class). This exercise is called “Start, stop and continue” and can be used as a way to adjourn a group.

What should the instructors start doing?
What Should the instructors stop doing?
What Should the instructors continue doing?

Share your ideas with the rest of the class.

Step 3: Ideas for course improvement

Finally as a class lets share our ideas and brainstorm other things we can do to make this course even better. Please record all ideas here:

Put your ideas here

Written by Dr. Dirk Colbry, Michigan State University
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