Articulating
Learning Objectives
What Do You Want Students to be able to Do Intellectually (or physically, emotionally, or socially) After Taking Your Course?
Plan your course backwards. Start with the desired outcomes and then let those goals determine everything else, including what you do, what you ask students to do, and how you assess their work.
One way to think richly
about student learning objectives is to think about the kinds of
conversations they will be able to join and the ways they will be able
to contribute to those
conversations. It may also be useful to think about the kinds of reasoning students should be able to use or
the kinds of authentic tasks they can
perform.