Facilitated by Jenny Amos and Colleen Lewis.
Goal: Share strategies for making the unwritten rules of college and our courses transparent to students.
Abstract: College has a lot of unwritten rules, and some of our students will matriculate knowing those rules while others don’t. Research has shown that revising homework assignments to make these unwritten rules explicit can help students’ academic confidence and sense of belonging. These revisions don’t change the intellectual content, they just provide the meta information that we assume that students already know. Come to the session for a crash course on making your assignments transparent followed by hands-on help! We hope you’ll decide to join us this summer in a community to support each other in revising our assignments to be more transparent! We understand if people need to come late or leave early!
Format: Hybrid - Join us on zoom or in-person at UIUC (We will follow-up with people who RSVP). Please have two assignments ready to work on during the session.
