Alternative Instruction Days (AID) Pedagogy
AID provides practical exercises for instruction to minimize disruption during inclement weather, campus closures, and unavoidable instructor absences (e.g., conference travel and illness). In addition, AID offers assignments and activities adaptable to most disciplines and learning situations by providing teaching strategies and tactics for online environments.
Sample Assignment Prompts
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Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy (2001) of Learning Skills |
Teaching Strategy |
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Assessing/Creating |
Develop a mid-semester evaluation of the course. |
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Analyzing |
Curate online resources on the subject you would have discussed in the classroom and annotate. |
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Applying/Analyzing/Creating |
Write a letter to a politician addressing a specific issue that was covered in a recent class. |
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Assessing/Applying |
Evaluate a relevant website as it relates to an appropriate subject from that day’s class. |
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Analyzing/Applying |
Reflect on a specific and recent metacognitive learning strategy used to prepare for today’s assignment. |
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Analyzing |
Have students read a section of an assignment and label its parts as to which Bloom skill is called for. |
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Analyzing |
Have students read a section of an assignment and label its parts as to which Bloom skill is called for. |
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Applying/Analyzing/Creating |
Have students take one FPC and create a 5/10-member annotated bibliography wherein only one entry can be from Wikipedia and one must be a non-print source. |
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Analyzing/Creating |
Place a general essay about the particular field in the location. Ask students to write an essay on why the field interests them, what questions they have. |
Instructors might wish to pair one of these assignments with a technology from the teaching technology matrix.
Resources
Bloom’s Revised Taxonomy 2001
Churches Graphic on Bloom’s Digital Taxonomy and the Communication Spectrum
Metacognitive Strategies
Faculty Consultations
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