Moving Beyond Content: Cultivating Significant Learning in STEM Courses
How can we create STEM courses that promote inclusive and significant learning experiences? During this workshop, we’ll provide an overview of L. Dee Fink’s Taxonomy of Significant Learning—a learner-centered approach to course development. We will use this framework to craft course objectives that move beyond understanding course content and towards facilitating student engagement with the material, the learning process, and the world outside the classroom. We will also consider how integrating Significant Learning into course design aligns with the basic principles of inclusive teaching and can help lay the foundation for an inclusive, learner-centered course. Participants will leave this workshop with a draft of an inclusive, learner-centered objective for their STEM course.
Facilitated by:
Lauren Woods, PhD, Assistant Director of CIRTL at Northwestern, Searle Center for Advancing Learning & Teaching
Katie Pierson, PhD, Postdoctoral Trainee in Graduate and Postdoctoral Learning, Searle Center for Advancing Learning & Teaching