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Course Design: Teaching Goals
Purpose: The Teaching Goals Inventory (TGI) is a self-assessment of instructional goals. Its purpose is threefold: (1) to help college teachers become more aware of what they want to accomplish in individual course; (2) to help the faculty locate Classroom Assessment Techniques they can adapt and use to assess how well they are achieving their teaching and learning goals; and (3) to provide a starting point for discussions of teaching and learning among colleagues.
The results from this inventory of your goals will be used in helping align your goals, objectives, and practices in later worksheets.
Directions: Please select ONE course you are currently teaching. Respond to each item on the inventory in relation to that particular course. (Your responses might be quite different if you were asked about your overall teaching and learning goals, for example, or the appropriate instructional goals for your discipline.)
Fill out this inventory using an electronic spreadsheet that will automatically tally your scores and averages (requires Excel).
Course Design: Goals Alignment
1. List the goals you have for yourself as an instructor, copied from the Teaching Goals Inventory and referring to a course you are building:
2. How well do your course goals match up with your overall goals as an instructor?
3. Jot down a few ideas on what student goals in your class might be. What do they hope to get out of the experience?
4. Look up on your college and department website the goals envisioned by your program, and record them here:
5. Finally, brainstorm some goals you think the community, university, and accrediting body might have. What external pressures have an impact on what you do in class, and how you do it? Note: university goals can be found online and copied here verbatim.
6. Transcribe a few keywords from each set of goals into the chart below, for easy reference.
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Community, Accreditation, University Goals |
College and Dept. Goals |
Instructor Goals |
Student Goals |
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Sample Accreditation Goals in Business |
• Is there “alignment” between these various sets of goals?
• If there are moments of “disconnect” between sets of goals, can you think of strategies to address them? How can you adjust your own goals so they fit better with the others listed here?
7. Looking over the list of goals from the community, department, and students, are you struck by any items that you hadn’t considered originally when writing your course syllabus? Now that you’ve considered other people’s goals, what will you do differently in your class (i.e., cover different material, add or delete activities, change your focus for some portions of the semester, etc)?
Course Design: Objectives
Align Teaching Role with Goals, Objectives, Lessons, and Assessment
Course Name: _____________________________________
What is your primary role as a teacher? (from the Teaching Goals Inventory)
1. Teaching students facts and principles of the subject matter.
2. Providing a role model for students
3. Helping students develop higher-order thinking skills
4. Preparing students for jobs/careers
5. Fostering student development and personal growth
6. Helping students develop basic learning skills
Essential Course Goals (from Teaching Goals Inventory)
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Objectives: Objectives are specific subcategories of goals, and they should inform your lessons and assessments. They are different from goals in that they are always observable or measurable and are described using action verbs.
“At the end of this course the students should be able to....”
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