Overview
Planning and preparing for your course is vital to student success. In addition to setting up your course in a positive and successful way to ensure clarity and ease of access, planning and preparing, most importantly, focuses on the need for your weekly plan (or rather a plan for each class period) to be clearly and fully communicated to students, and ensure that it includes session/module objectives.
Moreover, your engagement, classroom activities, instruction, and assessments should be:
- Clearly planned
- Implemented fully
- Clearly connect to SLOs
- Provide formative practice for module assessments
Lastly, when communicating your plan for the class period, or weekly course, to your students, the plan should include the following:
- Articulation of plan
- Articulation of connections (class to class/within class topics)
- Transitions (changing topics/activities) are well planned and executed
- Enhancements of Course: supplements with relevant additional resources and materials as needed
The Learning Cycle
Learning Cycle graphic/description
Resources
CTE provides you with helpful resources for articulating your plan, transiting topics and activities, enhancing your course, using student-centered teaching strategies, and utilizing formative assessment.
Articulation on Plan and SLOs
Announcements
- Utilizing Announcements
- How announcements impact our classrooms and our students (including examples!): Beautiful and Effective Announcements
Lesson Plans
- Effective Lesson Planning (subpage)
- Posting Lesson from Planning Templates
- Intentional Lesson Plans for an Online Course
- How to Update Course Assignment Summary
Transitions (Changing Topics/Activities)
Enhancements of Course: Supplements with Relevant Additional Resources
Instructional Strategies
Variety of Strategies
- Techniques Video Library
- Online Discussions Doctor (13 strategies for active and exciting engagement in the OL and OLL classroom!)
- Discussion Board Strategies