The Linguistics Teaching (LiTe) Reading Group at USC meets weekly on Wednesdays at 9am, remotely. We:
discuss recent articles about Linguistics pedagogy
practice conference presentations about pedagogical research
do professional development (e.g., reviewing teaching statements, scheduling peer evaluation)
share course design methods
workshop ideas for the classroom
If you are interested in attending or you would like to know more, contact this year's organizer.
September 19
Organizational meeting
September 28
Course design mini-series part 1: Picking a course topic
October 5
Course design mini-series part 2: Pitching a course idea
October 12
Course design mini-series part 3: Creating learning objectives
October 19
Course design mini-series part 4: Choosing assessment strategies
October 26
Paper discussion: Zuraw, K., Aly, A.M., Lin, I., & Royer, A.J. (2019). Gotta catch ’em all: Skills grading in undergraduate linguistics. Language 95(4), e406-e427. doi:10.1353/lan.2019.0081.
The links below are resources from the USC Center for Excellence in Teaching (CET) related to some of the topics of our course design mini-series.
More information on learning objectives in FAQ style
Types of assessments (there's also a list in the Introduction to Bloom's Taxonomy above)