How to Plan a Single Class Session
Explore and apply key lesson-planning topics – like backwards design, learning objectives, assessment, and more – in this one-part online workshop designed for grad students and postdocs who have had some teaching or TAing experience.
Event Details
Date
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Time
11 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
Location
Description
By the end of this workshop, participants will be able to:
- Identify several “big ideas” in their disciplines (core concepts/skills)
- Align learning objectives, assessments, and learning activities for a single class session based on the big idea they selected
- Discuss concepts from Universal Design for Learning
- Explore use of frequent formative feedback as an equitable way to promote learning
- Feel more empowered and confident in their own pedagogical decision-making
- Identify several “big ideas” in their disciplines (core concepts/skills)
- Align learning objectives, assessments, and learning activities for a single class session based on the big idea they selected
- Discuss concepts from Universal Design for Learning
- Explore use of frequent formative feedback as an equitable way to promote learning
- Feel more empowered and confident in their own pedagogical decision-making
Cost
Free
Accessibility
We value inclusion and access for all participants and are pleased to provide reasonable accommodations for this event. Please email zmzuleger@wisc.edu to make a disability-related accommodation request. Reasonable effort will be made to support your request.