Dr. Michelle Yeo is the director of the Mokakiiks Centre for Scholarship of Teaching and Learning at Mount Royal University. In this role, she supports the development and advancement of SoTL at Mount Royal University and beyond.
In every discipline, there are concepts or problems that, year after year, instructors notice students have difficulty mastering. When these are concepts central to progression in the discipline, these can become "bottlenecks" where students become "stuck" in their learning. Yet for instructors, as experts, these same aspects are so natural for us that we develop a kind of "blind spot" in teaching these same skills. The Decoding the Disciplines process originally developed by Middendorf and Pace (2004) is an approach to instructional planning that begins with identifying student learning bottlenecks and, through an interview process, helps experts unpack their own expertise. This, in turn, provides insights into teaching. At our university, we have further developed the model into aspects of narrative and identity.
Program
On behalf of the research group Quality in Higher Education, we invite you to a 2 part seminar.
In part 1 will participants be introduced to the Decoding the Disciplines model and how Decoding is used to unpack bottlenecks in student learning and explore how the Decoding model can identify their instructional priorities for a teaching scenario, and consider Decoding as a catalyst for cross-disciplinary dialogue.
Part 1 takes place in auditorium G at campus Lillehammer.
Part 2 is an interactive session with opportunities for exploring the decoding process further. You are welcome to attend only part 1, but to take full advantage of part 2, it is recommended that you follow part 1 as well.
Part 2 takes place in meeting room 4 at campus Lillehammer.
Registration: Nettskjema
Contact information
- odd.rune.stalheim@inn.no
- Phone
- +47 61 28 83 02