What does it mean to make a 
         What does it mean to make a 
            course more effective?
             course more effective?
       Carol DiFilippo’s Course Audition and 
        Carol DiFilippo’s Course Audition and 
        Spoken Language 
        Spoken Language 
       For pre-service teachers who will have 
        For pre-service teachers who will have 
        hearing-impaired students in class
        hearing-impaired students in class
       Goal: students will be able to analyze 
        Goal: students will be able to analyze 
        pupil characteristics, classroom 
        pupil characteristics, classroom 
        performance, and learning 
        performance, and learning 
        environments to design, implement, 
        environments to design, implement, 
        and assess lesson plans that will 
        and assess lesson plans that will 
        enhance spoken language learning.
        enhance spoken language learning.
         Goal:  Analyze pupil characteristics, classroom 
         Goal:  Analyze pupil characteristics, classroom 
          performance, and learning environments to 
          performance, and learning environments to 
        design, implement, and assess lesson plans that 
        design, implement, and assess lesson plans that 
            will enhance spoken language learning
            will enhance spoken language learning
        
          Previous organization
          Previous organization
          Around topics such as nature and 
           Around topics such as nature and 
           physiology of hearing loss, interpreting 
           physiology of hearing loss, interpreting 
           audiograms, troubleshooting hearing 
           audiograms, troubleshooting hearing 
           aids, designing lesson plans
           aids, designing lesson plans
        
          New organization
          New organization
          Moderately hearing-impaired child
           Moderately hearing-impaired child
          Severely hearing-impaired child
           Severely hearing-impaired child
          Profoundly deaf child
           Profoundly deaf child
          Goal: analyze pupil characteristics, classroom 
          Goal: analyze pupil characteristics, classroom 
          performance, and learning environments to 
          performance, and learning environments to 
        design, implement, and assess lesson plans that 
        design, implement, and assess lesson plans that 
            will enhance spoken language learning
            will enhance spoken language learning
        Same topics revisited with increasing 
         Same topics revisited with increasing 
         complexity in each course chunk
         complexity in each course chunk
        Enables students to have repeated 
         Enables students to have repeated 
         practice toward goals with increasing 
         practice toward goals with increasing 
         independence
         independence
        Same overall content but goals 
         Same overall content but goals 
         threaded throughout the course
         threaded throughout the course
        Assessment is straightforward
         Assessment is straightforward
         Making a course more effective
         Making a course more effective
        
         Example from a RS course
         Example from a RS course
         To give students a strong background in 
          To give students a strong background in 
          remote sensing and teach them how to 
          remote sensing and teach them how to 
          process images with ENVI/Imagine/Idrisi.
          process images with ENVI/Imagine/Idrisi.
                   Vs.
                   Vs.
         To enable students to 1) find/obtain datasets 
          To enable students to 1) find/obtain datasets 
          and prep them for use in analysis and 2) 
          and prep them for use in analysis and 2) 
          carry out hypothesis-driven analyses 
          carry out hypothesis-driven analyses 
          involving spatially referenced data, interpret 
          involving spatially referenced data, interpret 
          the results, marshal appropriate evidence, 
          the results, marshal appropriate evidence, 
          and analyze uncertainties and limitations of 
          and analyze uncertainties and limitations of 
          data and interpretations.
          data and interpretations.
        Making a course more effective
        Making a course more effective
       Faculty commonly have both goals
        Faculty commonly have both goals
       Teach the content background and 
        Teach the content background and 
        techniques for most of the semester.
        techniques for most of the semester.
       Final project - can students pull it 
        Final project - can students pull it 
        together and do sophisticated 
        together and do sophisticated 
        hypothesis-framing, independent 
        hypothesis-framing, independent 
        data-finding, analysis, and 
        data-finding, analysis, and 
        communication on their own?
        communication on their own?
       As with Carol’s course, success is 
        As with Carol’s course, success is 
        typically mixed and commonly 
        typically mixed and commonly 
        doesn’t “stick” well 
        doesn’t “stick” well