Workshop on curriculum design

1. Starting with Why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sioZd3AxmnE

2. Your course philosophy in 140 characters
#mycourseusp
• Why this course?
• Why for society?
• Why for your students?
• Why does it matter to you?
• Why is it special?

3. Your dream graduate
• In groups draw a picture of your dream graduate
(preferably animal, machine, insect – think
metaphor!)
• Capture in words alongside your graduate the
attributes you see as vital for the dream graduate
to become reality…

4. Backward mapping:
how will you get there?
• Choose one unit to construct a shared approach to
teaching which you think is likely to get you to a
dream graduate
• Choose which level to work at (4,5,6) and choose a
real or notional unit
• Use the cards to construct weeks, preparation
activities, teaching and learning activities,
assessment tasks.

5. Card exercise
• Lay out the guidance cards as shown on the next
slide
• Each week needs an in-class activity and a
preparation activity
• The whole module needs at least one formative
and only one summative assessment
• Consider what options will be most effective for
student engagement

7. Your cards
• Summative assessment – red
• Formative assessment - orange
• Preparation – green
• Learning activity – yellow
• Teaching activity - blue

8. Wild cards
Stage two: Accommodations and alterations
• Draw three pink and purple green cards at random
• Will you have to change your unit design in light of
these issues? How?

9. Curriculum design is about making
tough choices