Scholarship of Teaching
and Learning 04-05
Learning Question and
Problem
The question: What
activities do students find as most effective in engaging their interest and
increasing their understanding and application of developmental theories and concepts.
The problem: HDFS-124 (Human Development: Early Childhood) is a survey course
dealing with an in-depth study of development from prenatal through age eight.
The information to cover in a semester is enormous.
What my concern
(problem)
is how to increase student engagement so as to enhance the studentsą ability to take concepts and integrate them into
a more meaningful understanding of development.
Procedure: Throughout the semester
students will participate in a variety of activities that will revolve around
development. After each activity students will reflect (anonymously) how the
activity may have impacted their understanding
/learning
of the concepts. At the end of the course I will ask the
students for feedback to which activities they found overall most effective and
why.
Analysis: anonymous reactions
End of course feedback