Navigating Curriculum Development for Impactful Learning
Teaching Talks include:
- Curriculum Mapping -- A Multi-Dimensional Approach - Steve Brown - This presentation will share how curriculum maps can be used for purposes beyond the traditional approach of meeting requirements of external accreditors. We currently experience a wide variety of formats used with little articulation what would be considered best practice. And, as most maps focus only on meeting accreditor requirements at a program level, they miss the opportunity to address other issues that individual instructors face at the course level. Well-constructed maps can serve as an excellent tool in improving connections between faculty members that leads to developing courses and instructors that have better connection to the curriculum as a whole. All faculty members, program administrators, and course design staff, in all programs will benefit from this session.
- Promoting Diversity Across the Curriculum: The Carter School Experience - Leslie Dwyer - In 2023, the Carter School for Peace and Conflict Resolution began an initiative encouraging faculty to diversify the range of perspectives offered on their syllabi and to dialogue about how to engage with students with diverse backgrounds. The initiative included a baseline survey of select core course syllabi, a series of "Syllabus Jams" and "Pedagogy Jams" for faculty to collaborate; and workshops devoted to promoting more inclusive approaches to teaching peace and conflict resolution. This talk will discuss challenges and lessons learned from this initiative. Participants who will benefit from this talk include all teaching faculty interested in issues of diversity and inclusion, especially those working on curricular initiatives in their own units.
- Infusing KEEN's Entrepreneurially Minded Learning (EML) at Mason - Girum Urgessa - The Kern Entrepreneurial Engineering Network (KEEN) is a nationwide partnership of undergraduate engineering and computing programs whose mission is “to graduate engineers with an entrepreneurial mindset so they can create personal, economic, and societal value through a lifetime of meaningful work.” George Mason University became a KEEN partner institution at the end of 2023. KEEN partner institutions amplify the teaching of technical engineering and computing skills by incorporating the 3Cs (curiosity, connections, and creating value) of an Entrepreneurial Mindset (EM). The mindset is considered to include “a set of attitudes, dispositions, habits, and behaviors that shape a unique approach to problem-solving, innovation, and value creation.” This presentation will cover how the College of Engineering (CEC) faculty at George Mason University are incorporating Entrepreneurially Minded Learning (EML) in the classroom and participating in nationwide KEEN faculty development workshops.
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