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Significant Learning Worksheet - 17042023

1. The document outlines five steps for designing courses that promote significant learning for students: considering situational factors, determining learning goals, establishing feedback and assessment procedures, planning teaching and learning activities, and integrating all components. 2. Some examples of situational factors to consider include characteristics of learners, nature of the subject matter, and expectations placed on the course. 3. When determining learning goals, teachers should identify what foundational knowledge, skills, and ideas they want students to still remember years later, including abilities like critical thinking and connections among course concepts.

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Significant Learning Worksheet - 17042023

1. The document outlines five steps for designing courses that promote significant learning for students: considering situational factors, determining learning goals, establishing feedback and assessment procedures, planning teaching and learning activities, and integrating all components. 2. Some examples of situational factors to consider include characteristics of learners, nature of the subject matter, and expectations placed on the course. 3. When determining learning goals, teachers should identify what foundational knowledge, skills, and ideas they want students to still remember years later, including abilities like critical thinking and connections among course concepts.

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DESIGNING COURSES THAT PROMOTE

SIGNIFICANT LEARNING FOR SOCIAL STUDIES

Name of Teachers :
Group :
Day, Date : Senin, 17 April 2023
Subject :
Grade :

If you as teacher want to create courses in which students have “significant learning experiences,”
you need to design that quality into their courses. How can you do that? By following the five basic
steps of the instructional design process, as laid out below:

WORKSHEET 1

Step 1. Give careful consideration to a variety of SITUATIONAL FACTORS

1. Specific Context of the Teaching/Learning Situation


How many students are in the class? Is the course lower division, upper division, or graduate level? How
long and frequent are the class meetings? How will the course be delivered: live, online, or in a classroom
or lab? What physical elements of the learning environment will affect the class?

2. General Context of the Learning Situation


What learning expectations are placed on this course or curriculum by: the university, college and/or
department? the profession? society?

3. Nature of the Subject


Is this subject primarily theoretical, practical, or a combination? Is the subject primarily convergent or
divergent? Are there important changes or controversies occurring within the field?
DESIGNING COURSES THAT PROMOTE
SIGNIFICANT LEARNING FOR SOCIAL STUDIES

4. Characteristics of the Learners


What is the life situation of the learners (e.g., working, family, professional goals)? What prior knowledge,
experiences, and initial feelings do students usually have about this subject? What are their learning goals,
expectations, and preferred learning styles?

5. Characteristics of the Teacher


What beliefs and values does the teacher have about teaching and learning? What is his/her attitude
toward: the subject? students? What level of knowledge or familiarity does s/he have with this subject?
What are his/her strengths in teaching?

WORKSHEET 2
Step 2. Learning Goals - What do you want students to learn by the end of the course, that
will still be with them several years later?

The Questions for Formulating Significant Learning Goals

"A year (or more) after this course is over, I want and hope that students will
_______________________________________”

1. Foundational Knowledge
• What key information (e.g., facts, terms, formulae, concepts, principles, relationships, etc.) is/are
important for students to understand and remember in the future?
• What key ideas (or perspectives) are important for students to understand in this course?
DESIGNING COURSES THAT PROMOTE
SIGNIFICANT LEARNING FOR SOCIAL STUDIES

2. Application Goals
• What kinds of thinking are important for students to learn?
♦ Critical thinking, in which students analyze and evaluate
♦ Creative thinking, in which students imagine and create
♦ Practical thinking, in which students solve problems and make decisions
 What important skills do students need to gain?
 Do students need to learn how to manage complex projects?

3. Integration Goals
• What connections (similarities and interactions) should students recognize and make…:
♦ Among ideas within this course?
♦ Among the information, ideas, and perspectives in this course and those in other courses or areas?
♦ Among material in this course and the students' own personal, social, and/or work life?

4. Human Dimensions Goals


• What could or should students learn about themselves?
• What could or should students learn about understanding others and/or interacting with them?

5. Caring Goals
• What changes/values do you hope students will adopt?
Feelings?
DESIGNING COURSES THAT PROMOTE
SIGNIFICANT LEARNING FOR SOCIAL STUDIES

Interests?
Ideas?

6. "Learning-How-to-Learn" Goals
• What would you like for students to learn about:
♦ how to be good students in a course like this?
♦ how to learn about this particular subject?
♦ how to become a self-directed learner of this subject, i.e., having a learning agenda of what they
need/want to learn, and a plan for learning it?

Step 3. Feedback & Assessment Procedures What will the students have to do, to
demonstrate that they have achieved the learning goals (as identified in Step “A” above)?

Step 4. Teaching/Learning Activities What would have to happen during the course for
students to do well on the Feedback & Assessment activities?
DESIGNING COURSES THAT PROMOTE
SIGNIFICANT LEARNING FOR SOCIAL STUDIES

Step 5. Make sure that the Key Components are all INTEGRATED

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