Facilitating Student-Centered Learning Through Ungrading
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8-16-2023 12:00 AM
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As instructors, we are constantly learning and applying various educational theories, methodologies, and assessments to facilitate our student's learning outcomes. The practice of ungrading, where letter grades are not assigned to individual submissions, allows students to focus on learning without the threat of grades and classmate comparisons. I designed and implemented a new course relating to museum studies and natural history collections for the Spring 2023 semester. In the field of collections management, it is important to think critically about many topics, including conservation, storage, interpretation, and exhibit presentation. Here I present the structure of the course and the ways where student-guided practices facilitated everyone's learning and engagement, including personalized learning objectives, discussion-driven lectures, and classroom comment/feedback loops. All of this allowed my students to strengthen their communications skills, apply collaborative knowledge to multiple types of collections on the USU Logan campus, and prepare them for potential careers in museums!
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Facilitating Student-Centered Learning Through Ungrading
As instructors, we are constantly learning and applying various educational theories, methodologies, and assessments to facilitate our student's learning outcomes. The practice of ungrading, where letter grades are not assigned to individual submissions, allows students to focus on learning without the threat of grades and classmate comparisons. I designed and implemented a new course relating to museum studies and natural history collections for the Spring 2023 semester. In the field of collections management, it is important to think critically about many topics, including conservation, storage, interpretation, and exhibit presentation. Here I present the structure of the course and the ways where student-guided practices facilitated everyone's learning and engagement, including personalized learning objectives, discussion-driven lectures, and classroom comment/feedback loops. All of this allowed my students to strengthen their communications skills, apply collaborative knowledge to multiple types of collections on the USU Logan campus, and prepare them for potential careers in museums!