It’s in the syllabus… Mindfully Engaging with Syllabi [Part I]

Transformative Learning in the Humanities

This event is part of TLH's Spring 2021 series on active and participatory learning.

If you are a CUNY student, we want to hear from you! This 1 hour-session will help you make sense of syllabi for courses you are taking this semester - we will pilot a “course-organizer” that you will take with you, a tool designed to help you synthesize course information and interconnect learning. Your feedback will help us make this organizer better, and sharing what we learn from you with other faculty will help us all design more accessible syllabi. If you are CUNY faculty, join us for the second event of this series to learn insights from students and get a tool you can use with your classes.This mini-series, led by Niyati Mehta and Marta Cabral, is composed of two sessions (one with students and a second one with faculty) focused on meaningful syllabi and interdisciplinary transfer of learning: how to engage with syllabi as documents that help students succeed? How can synthesizing course information help students interconnect learning and apply it to each course and to their lives?The first conversation focuses on growth mindset as a context for learning. Students will be invited to discuss challenges they may have while navigating technical/ practical aspects of courses; be introduced to a tool for effectively navigating syllabi (a course-organizer); experiment with that tool; and share their thoughts. In Part II, the conversation with faculty, we will share the insights received from students, provide faculty with the same course-organizer, and discuss tips and strategies to design meaningful syllabi.Based on the feedback received in both conversations, we will re-design/ fine-tune the organizer and a “tips to design an easy-to-read syllabus” handout. We plan to publish both tools as Open Education Resources and share them on the CUNY Commons, making them freely available to all CUNY students and faculty.

It’s in the syllabus… Mindfully Engaging with Syllabi [Part I]

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