Instructor Resources
I work to develop courses that balance my strengths of creativity, relationship-focus, and lifelong learning with students' needs for strong clarity and organization. Here are some resources I've found helpful in crafting purposeful course designs that foster deep and meaningful student learning. I will continue to add resources to this page from time-to-time. The essentials provided here include how and why to make our course design choices visible for our students, organizing projects in alignment with learning goals and best practices for teaching and learning, and a readability calculator to help measure and enhance the clarity of our course materials.
Foster student learning by making your reasoning visible. Students don’t always see the benefits a particular practice or learning tool we've chosen can offer them. Ultimately, it fosters student learning when you make your reasons for these choices visible.
This project organizer helps guide purposeful alignment with SLOs. Through this handout, your student learning outcomes and best practices of course design can guide and optimize your project design.
You might consider using a readability calculator. We may think the clarity of our course materials like syllabi and assignment descriptions is "good enough." After all, we understand them. However, readability calculators like those in this website help us ensure we are writing for our students' actual level of education OR, even, better, a level simpler than what they might actually need. It may serve you well to try to write course materials and instructions for higher education at an 8th grade reading level. Change my mind.