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About Your Instructor

Write about yourself. Put your academic credentials but also make your syllabus warm by putting some details about you as a person: your pets, your interests, where you are from. Include an image. Not sure how? See the adding an image tutorial. Here's what an image looks like in your syllabus.

About The Course

About the Course

In this section, include the pertinent details of the course.

Course Catalog Description:

Student Learning Outcomes:

Objectives specific to your course.

Assignments

Here are all of the assignments that are due in this class

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#2 And that

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Learning Pact

A learning pact is a student-centered way to make clear your expectations of the students and what they can expect of you. Here is an example pact from Fabiola Torres of Glendale Community College.

Learning Pact

What you can expect from me:

I will treat you with dignity and respect and be flexible to support your individual needs.
I will provide you with a clear, organized online course that is designed to ensure you meet our course outcomes in a meaningful manner.
I will provide a variety of assignments to ensure your learning needs are met.
I will provide a supportive, safe and brave environment for you to share and discuss ideas with me and your peers.
I will reach out to you when I sense that you need support.
I won't be perfect. I am human and will make mistakes at times. I will view mistakes as an opportunity to learn and grow.
I will bring on my A game every week for you.
I will trust you.

What I will expect from you:

You will treat me and your peers with dignity respect and say thank you when your need has been met.
You will strive to be an active participant in this course and aim to meet due dates.
You will maintain an open line of communication with me so I understand how to support you.
You will contact me if you have a concern with meeting a due date.
You will strive to regularly contribute to collaborative activities to ensure other members of our class have ample opportunity to read/listen, reflect, and respond to your ideas.
You will do your best to have patience with technology. There will be hiccups, expect them. We will get through them together.
You will give yourself grace. Expect to make mistakes. You are human and mistakes are part of learning and growing.
You will breathe and remember that learning is a process that I am part of. It's a partnership.

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Teaching Philosophy

Consider adding a teaching philosophy to let students understand how you teach and why you teach the way you teach. It humanizes you as a teacher and helps students to understand your expectations.

Here is an example philosophy borrowed from Fabiola Torres from Glendale Community College.

I believe our brain must perceive our improvement, our increased ability to do something better, before it begins to feel confident. My role is to help all my students improve their learning and increase their cognitive stamina. My online & face-to-face courses are designed to strengthen learning muscles so they can process content and produce data-driven conclusions. Through personal feedback, I reframe mistakes as a source of information about what needs adjusting in order to hit the target. I believe the educational system has conditioned students to be scared of mistakes because they think it says something about their intelligence. As a result, students may not push for the next level of mastery. Therefore my presence, feedback and communication has to focus on what strategies students can level up mastery.

-C/S (Con Safos)

Introductory Video

Academic Integrity

Here you want to include the Academic Integrity Policies for your university, in a way that lets your students know that you aren't out to catch them cheating. Remember to make this warm language. Let students know where they can go to be sure they are citing correctly and not plagiarizing others. Remember, students want to do well- no one wants to fail because of plagiarizing another's work.

Contact Information

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