Syllabus Template
Syllabus Template
Syllabus Template
Answers to these questions help ensure that students are in the right class for their academic level and have made an informed decision about whether they can handle the workload/style of teaching. They know the requirements and how to meet them, have some sense of what they are supposed to get out of the class, and have a sense that the course material matters to their success.
Enabling students to track their own success in the course, through grading rubrics for each assignment and a point system that enables students to do their own math, can help them monitor their progress, realize they have the power to change their performance, and make them more responsible for their own learning.
(adapted from The Course Syllabus: A Learning-Centered Approach, 2nd edition, edited by Judith Grunert O’Brien, Barbara J. Millis and Margaret W. Cohen, San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass, 2008).