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Planning Your Class

Planning Your Class

Planning Your Class

Planning Your Class

Planning Your Class

Planning Your Class

Planning Your Class

Strategy 3: Two versions of the syllabus.

Why do this?

A living syllabus prevents you from being held to how you thought the class would be running when you made the syllabus a few months ago. This also keeps the class more flexible when it comes to snow days, sickness, and other unexpected events. Additionally, you can add supplemental items to this syllabus to provide students with more resources that correspond with their needs and interests. With both a living and a steady state syllabus, class can proceed in a clear yet flexible direction to fit both the students’ and professor’s needs.

How do I do this?

Create an overarching, unchanging syllabus (the steady state version) that gives an overview of the goals, content, and layout of your course. This should tell the class what your policies are and what will go on in your class. Next, create a living syllabus--Moodle is a great platform for this--that reflects the weekly goals and nitty gritty details of the course. For example, you may include the weekly readings and assignments in this document to better reflect what you want to do in the class.

Resources

Here is a resource for creating a syllabus:

http://www.crlt.umich.edu/gsis/p2_1

These resources give you an idea of how flexible your syllabus should be:

https://www.chronicle.com/blognetwork/tenuredradical/2012/09/as-the-semester-turns-should-the-syllabus-evolve/
https://teachingcenter.wustl.edu/resources/course-design/preparing-a-syllabus/

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