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Comprehensive Syllabus template
• This syllabus template meets all MSU syllabus content requirements and is fully compliant with accessibility standards for both printed and online documents.
• Using the template helps ensure a uniform and accessible point of entry into courses.
• Consistency in syllabus design and branding ensures that all students can easily access critical course and MSU information, policies, and procedures.
• All headings, tables, web links, and sample text are formatted to optimize the document for all students, including those students who rely on assistive technologies to read their syllabus.

More robust than the short-form syllabus, this template provides supplemental policy language, sample design ideas, and greater level of detail for documenting your course plan for your students.

To use the template, download the file, open it in MS Word, resolve all comments, delete un-needed material, and edit all content enclosed in ***.

Short-form Syllabus Template
This short-form syllabus template guides you to including all the elements required by the code of teaching conduct. Adhering to this template will help ensure that your syllabus meets MSU's digital content accessibility requirements.

The template has been updated with relevant date and policy changes for Spring 2024.

To use the template, download the file, open it in MS Word, then edit all areas enclosed in ***.

Messaging your students early in the semester is essential. For initial communication use the "email student in a class" tool on the RO site to ensure you're contacting 100% of your students via their preferred contact information. It's especially important that you communicate A) where class will convene, B) when class will convene, C) what your expectations for the first 3 weeks of class are, and 4) a brief introduction of yourself. It is also wise to attach a copy of your syllabus to this note, if you see fit.

This tool provides the highest level of certainty that you will be communicating with the most accurate roster of your students, and that the message will be delivered to their preferred email address. Once you meet as a class and have time to establish communication norms you can communicate using whatever tool is best for your class.

The tool can be found in Instructor Systems on the registrar's site (reg.msu.edu). You'll need to login with your MSU ID to access the tool.

 

It's the start of Week Three! Now that enrollments have stabilized, I have students begin working in student learning teams of four-five people this week for the rest of the semester. To assist the student learning teams in my courses, I developed three brief Doodly whiteboard animations in May-June '21 that replace some rather pedestrian Prezi videos used during the 2020-2021 AY. I embed code for these animations in my Week Three course modules on D2L and direct students to them in the Week Three 'Start Here!' guidelines, which are both emailed and shared at the top of the related course module, so student have them in two places. The procedure is similar each week. Anyway, here are links to the animations for those who might be interested:

Week Three: Your Studeunt Learning Team Kick-Off -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBDLxczyhx4

Week Three: Create a List of Team Values -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1BgH3x7U4w

Week Three: Ensure Civil Discourse in Your Student Learning Team -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4lYcq6O2w3w

ASK ME ANYTHING STARTS TODAY WITH Cheryl Caesar - Teaching Multilingual Students
Cheryl lived in Paris, Tuscany and Sligo for 25 years, earned her doctorate in comparative literature at the Sorbonne and taught literature and phonetics. She publishes poetry in the U.S., Germany, India, Bangladesh, Yemen and Zimbabwe, and last year she won third prize in the Singapore Poetry Contest for her poem on global warming. My chapbook Flatman: Poems of Protest in the Trump Era is available from Amazon.

I chose the topic of “Teaching Multilingual Students” because I have experience teaching EFL in Europe and ESL here, to first-year writing students. I am especially interested in using linguistic and cultural diversity as a pedagogical asset in the classroom

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Just started my role in Center for Teaching and Learning Innovation as the Inclusive Pedagogy Specialist. Want to talk about inclusivity, DEI, social justice, etc.? Let's connect :)

KRISTEN - I have started on multiple occasions to build my "professional website" and haven't found the motivation to follow through. All the choices and options for content to include can be overwhelming... do you have suggestions on how to get started? On top of it, I'm an educator but not a faculty member (so this wouldn't be something I'd direct students to). Because of this, I'm also struggling with how to balance person and professional. I have one twitter account - I see you have a RSS feed on your website - should I have two separate accounts and only link my "professional" one? Should I think of my audience as current colleagues at MSU and potential future employers? (So BALANCE is one of my question themes)

As we begin to think about the Fall 2024 semester -- Starting in less than one month. . . Yikes! -- here are a couple of links to Sam Kary's Next Generation Teacher Youtube channel that might be interesting to mine for ideas when it comes to student use of digital tools as part of our courses and classrooms:

Chat GPT for Teachers | Beginners' Tutorial -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4HJZzwt3lY

Ignite Student Creativity with These Unique Projects -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-oISKlEesg


Hope this might be interesting and helpful if you are looking to shake up things a bit. Besides Sam Kary, there are a few other teachers/professors/authors who have lots of useful advice on how to liven up our courses and classrooms in the digital age, including how we might use AI in our courses and classrooms. I've included links to their Youtube channels below:

Trevor Muir -- https://www.youtube.com/@TrevorMuir/videos

John Spencer -- https://www.youtube.com/@spencereducation

Matt Miller -- https://www.youtube.com/@ditchthattextbook

Amina Yonis -- https://www.youtube.com/@DrAminaYonis