4 Develop a Course Design Plan (CDP) – The Thousand Foot View
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Organize your Inventories into Weekly Lessons
Similar to the class schedule in your class syllabus, organize your inventoried course learning materials, lecture material, and learning activities into a 12 week schedule to reflect a standard term. This process helps you identify gaps in the course materials and can help you see where the weighting of work from week to week may be disproportionate. You’ll also be able to see how your assessments line up with what you’re teaching.
Use the provided MS Word Template and related documents below to build out your Course Design Plan.
Align your Objectives, Content and Assessments
The other important task that this process facilitates is working through your class outcomes and module objectives. This is a great place to create and align module objectives, with content and assessments to ensure that what you’re teaching is what you’re assessing.
If you’ve never written Learning Objectives before or need a refresher on writing effective and measurable ones, here’s a link to a quick guide.
A verb list can help you determine the correct level of competency for your module learning objectives.
