Center for Teaching Execellence
Advisory Group (CTEAG)

January 2008 - Creating Good Courses

Tom Hawk - "Bloom's Taxonomy (1956) and Bloom's Taxonomy Revised (2001)." Compares the original Bloom's Taxonomy with the Bloom's Taxonomy Revised. Proposes the use of Bloom's Taxonomy Revised as a basis for establishing course learning outcomes, the choice of learning processes, and the choice of learnilng assessments.
Bloom's Taxonomy

Tom Hawk - "Learning Models." Provides an overview of behaviorist, experiential, cognitive, social, and mixed learning models. Includes a brief description of stage development models, adult learning models, conversational and discussion learning, and liberation pedagogy.
Learning Models

John O'Rorke - "Learning Activities & Assessment ." A brief introduction to constructing useful activities that help students achieve the learning goals of the course; and discussion of appropirate assessments of learning outcomes.
Activities & Assessment Activities Matrix

Tom Hawk - "Teaching Philosophy & the Ethics of Care." Provides an introduction to an ethic of care, pedagogical caring, and recognition and appraisal respect in the context of teaching and learning. Encourages faculty to develop their own personal teaching and learning philosophy, including the surfacing of assumptions and values that underlie their choices for teaching and learning.
Ethical & Philosophical Considerations

Jodi Welsch - "Designing Rubrics." A rubric is a grading tool that defines the explicit expectations for an assessment and identifies the varying levels of performance. In this presentation, participants saw examples of task descriptions, criteria and completed rubrics and were guided to consider the design of a rubric for their own assignment. Among other benefits, rubrics can help instructors connect learning goals to assessments and support students in producing higher quality work.
Rubrics Template Examples

Tracy Edwards - "Syllabus." Constructing useful syllabi.
Syllabus Syllabus Checklist