Pre-Institute Activity: Preparing for a Activity Design Institute
We recommend that you commit approximately two hours of preparatory time prior to attending so that you can optimize the learning experience. There are four things that we suggest that you do.

First

Read the following modules that are found in the Faculty Guidebook. (Click to view .pdf files online.)

Second

Please determine the course on which you will be choosing to focus your energies at the institute, and bring a copy of the course design for that particular course, as well as the textbook for that course.
Third

Be prepared to share the following with the group: Name, Department, and one tip about activity design or activity implementation that might help your peers.

Fourth

Please respond to the following questions to help us gain an understanding of those who will be in attendance in order to best tailor the information and presentation to your interests, background, and goals.

Name:
Affiliation:
E-mail Address:
1. Have you participated in prior faculty development institutes offered by Pacific Crest?
YES (if no, do not check)
 

If so, which institute(s) have you attended?
2a.

If you have not participated in the Pacific Crest Course Design Institute, have you participated in course design institutes offered by others?
YES
2b.

If so, do you have the course design(s) that resulted from that learning?
YES
3.

Within your course designs, have you identified where formalized activities will optimize achievement of the learning outcomes that you have for one of your courses? YES

If so, please explain where those conditions exist.
4.

Please identify which of the following kinds of activities you currently use in your classroom:

Process-Oriented Guided-Inquiry Learning
Methodologies
Templates
Case studies
Profiles
Other

(describe):

5.

If you already have some of these types of activities, do you see them as something you wish to improve? YES

If so, in what way do you wish to improve them? If so, we recommend bringing these activities to the institute.
6.

Are there specific challenges with activity design that you hope to address in the institute?
YES

If so, please elaborate on those challenges.