Syllabus

The Educationalist. By Alexandra Mihai

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Toward Cruelty-Free Syllabi Note: This presentation began with ideas I wrote about in a blog post here. For folks who are reading these slides now and were not at the actual presentation, that post may give some helpful context. The actual presentation was improvised and involved a lot of talk wi...

Taking steps to ensure students stay on track with assigned course work and being a student success-supporting instructor.

Making a syllabus that reflects your interests can make that hard work more enjoyable for you and offer many benefits to your students. Happy creating!

Designing Inclusive Syllabi: Getting Started Checklist Created by Tolulope (Tolu) Noah, Ed.D. (@DrToluNoah) Based on the books, Inclusive Teaching (Hogan & Sathy, 2022) & The Norton Guide to Equity-Minded Teaching (Artze-Vega, Darby, Dewsbury, & Imad, 2023) Tone & Language Use warm, support...

For Middlebury College professor, Greg Pask, a graphic syllabus is a chance to establish the tone he wants for a course. Instead of treating the syllabus as a list of rules, penalties, and a code of conduct, the graphic syllabus communicates a “welcome to learning” invitation. And although a graphic

Setting boundaries on communications is a major step toward being intentional

This article is the first in a two-part series. “Envisioning the Radical Syllabus: A Critical Approach to Classroom Culture, Part 2 [https://hybridpedagogy.org/envisioning-radical-syllabus/]” provides response and follow-up from the author. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Syllabi that reflect the mundane, bureaucratic requirements of the University are at risk of setting an equally

What decisions can you make now to avoid making emergency decisions later?

Pandemic teaching pushed many professors to be more flexible about deadlines. Our colleague reports on how that’s shaking out now.

How do you find a balance between flexibility and structure?

Creating a visual syllabus, often as an alternative to the standard approach, creates a more approachable document that communicates the tone, structure, and nature of the course in an immediate way.

60-Second SoTL – Episode 1 This week’s episode explores how syllabus design can impact students’ motivation and their perceptions of the course and instructor. The episode features two recent publications from the open-access International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching...

Read all #AnnotatedSyllabus Posts and Resources Yes, it’s that time of the summer. That time when you’re beginning to prepare courses for the new academic year. And if you’re read…

A syllabus does a lot of heavy lifting - don't forget to make it engaging & student-centered...

Julia Charles talks about disrupting the syllabus on episode 419 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast

Christopher Richmann talks about the self and syllabus project on episode 418 of the Teaching in Higher Ed podcast