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Collaborating to Map Your Program √ §

A Kinesthetic Program-Level Curriculum Mapping Experience!

Location

University Center : 312

Date & Time

February 20, 2024, 12:00 pm1:30 pm

Description

Collaborating to Map Your Program: Program-Level Curriculum Mapping

How do your students synthesize their learning across the courses and other learning experiences in your degree program? Do your students use near and far transfer to integrate their general education learning into their majors? Too frequently, students view individual courses (even individual assignments) as separate, not connected to other classes or to their goals and purposes. Mapping your program can help you and your colleagues begin to change this perception: a program-level curriculum map illustrates how student learning experiences collectively cultivate the program’s desired learning results.

Curriculum mapping, as detailed in A Guide to Curriculum Mapping: Creating a Collaborative, Transformative, and Learner-Centered Curriculum (Harrison & Williams 2024), helps you to implement best practices in teaching, learning, and assessment. In this session, faculty from Business Technology Administration and Human Centered Computing will literally walk you through their program maps; show you how their maps helped them clarify, query, and collaborate on student learning; and reflect on how to extend this discussion to students. Join us for a kinesthetic, hands-on mapping experience to create a shared vision for student learning across courses and programs. Lunch is provided.

Lunch will be provided to all registered participants, please click “Going” below to reserve your seat for this session. Please email fdc@umbc.edu to note any dietary restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, food allergies, etc.) by Monday, February 12.  The deadline to register for this event is the earlier of Monday, February 12 or when the event reaches capacity.  Please email fdc@umbc.edu to be added to a wait list if the event is full.  If you have registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release your spot so that others may attend.

√ Counts toward the ALIT Certificate
§ Counts toward the INNOVATE Certificate

Image provided by Jennifer Harrison.

Part of the FDC Leadership & Teaching Series
Launched in March 2018!


Sessions in this series are designed to help you to reflect on challenges in collegiate teaching and how you, in your role as a formal or informal leader at UMBC, can contribute to innovative solutions. Faculty and staff colleagues will address specific challenges in interactive presentations designed to help you explore key questions, for example:
  • How can you use research to improve teaching, learning, and curriculum design?
  • How can you connect to other teaching leaders to identify common challenges and devise shared solutions?
  • How can you contribute to a collaborative culture of evidence-based teaching to improve student learning?
  • How can you identify policies, processes, and technologies that make it easier to gather and use evidence of student learning?
All faculty are welcome to attend, especially those who...
  • Are chairs, deans, graduate program directors, or have formal leadership roles, or
  • Have informal leadership roles or who aspire to be campus leaders.

Please note that this is an in person program with lunch! Therefore, registration will close on February 12 or when we reach the room's capacity. Funding for in person programs is limited, so we ask that you please commit to coming upon registration and kindly release your spot if you can no longer attend.