Teaching & Learning

When designing the course content and teaching and learning (T&L) activities for your common core course, integrate the following principles to ensure alignment with the Common Core goals and objectives and the University’s guidelines:

• Clearly articulate your course intended learning outcomes (ILOs) using the outcome-based education (OBE) approach with a criterion-referencing model
• Align your course ILOs with the common core area ILOs
• Create course materials and a structure that facilitate students in achieving the course ILOs, and arrange course topics in a sequence that supports their learning progression
• Ensure that all students, including those without prior knowledge or with an academic background comparable to high school graduates, can participate in activities
• Design activities that effectively deliver content while allowing students to practice competencies multiple times; these activities should be student-centered, fostering engagement and critical thinking
• Adopt active learning pedagogical approaches to engage students, and create an environment conducive to effective interaction between students and you
• Ensure compliance with the University’s GenAI policies
• Adopt experiential learning pedagogies, with concurrence from the Center for Education Innovation (CEI), if you are developing courses in the Undergraduate experiential Opportunities Programs (UxOP) area. Also observe the specific requirements for UxOP courses.