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ISQ Next Generation Learning Pilot Project - Phase 2 Advancing Lead Teachers Professional Development [|Program] February 11-14 2008

 * Part I: Setting goals**
 * To investigate the frameworks of your course and to identify any challenges and opportunities that exist as a result of your own local contexts, conditions, resources etc.
 * To set overarching and ancillary skills goals for your course in the context of your students, your department, and your institution.
 * To choose specific content through which you can accomplish the overarching goals.


 * Part II: Designing the course**
 * To develop a **course plan** and consider how that course plan will help students achieve the overarching goals.
 * To explore a variety of **teaching strategies and assessment tools** to help you build up your **toolbox of techniques**, add to your arsenal of **ideas** and **templates** for activities and assignments.
 * To design **learning activities** to give students practice in tasks relevant to the goals of the course and to develop assessments to evaluate students’ progress toward the goals.

//This workshop material is adapted from "On the Cutting Edge".//