Facilitate student learning in lecture on Abnormal Behaviour

Description:

I wish to facilitate learning in a lecture on the topic ‘Abnormal behaviour’ during the mandatory bachelor course ‘Domestic Animal Behaviour’. The participants consists this year of 9 students, with in-class activities scheduled as one lecture, followed by two discussion classes on the same day.

The main pedagogical rationale of my learning design suggested below is to engage/activate students and to prepare them for achieving the intended learning outcome specifically stated for this topic. I plan activities with the intend to increase their awareness of the topic relevance, to enhance motivation, and which invite peer feedback. My goal is to be transparent about the learning goals, and enable to students to grasp the topic in a range of different ways, not only be reading the textbook material. The physical interactions between teacher and students will only be in-class; however, the student learning is supported by out-of-class activity before and after the weekly session.

The learning design model is inspired from STREAM, with out-of-class activity leading up to and feedback into the on-class activity. The LMS platform used is Brightspace. In relation to Conolo’s three dimensions, the use of out-of class activity introduced activate the students to a higher extent.