low-stakes activity Archives - Designing for All

Reframing the Assignment

April 5, 2018 / 1 Comment on Reframing the Assignment

The Fall 2017 semester has been a very busy one for me. The Therapeutic Recreation program, a new Health Sciences program officially opened in the Fall 2017 semester. With that, there has been a shift in the course assignments that were originally created during the college curriculum review phase. The original assignment that was used […]

Continue Reading →

Reformulating Our Assignment…

April 2, 2018 / 1 Comment on Reformulating Our Assignment…

I took the time to reflect on the last semester and the consideration of my UDL assignment into my SCH150 (Drugs, Society, & Behavior) course for Spring I 2018. I am working to fully implement a scaffolded assignment after implementing, a low-stakes version, in my class during the Fall I 2017 semester. Over the course […]

Continue Reading →

Okay, But Did It Work? — A Reflection on Consent-Based Participation Practice

January 5, 2018 / 2 Comments on Okay, But Did It Work? — A Reflection on Consent-Based Participation Practice

Last term, as a pilot faculty member with the Designing for All project, I joined my colleagues in creating a low-stakes assignment for a course that I hoped would increase access to my classroom. I have publicly outlined the parameters of this “low-stakes” activity, but in brief, I was teaching HUT 101 at LaGuardia, which […]

Continue Reading →

Reflections on low-stake group activity

January 3, 2018 / Leave a comment

I implemented a low-stake group activity in my Environmental Psychology class when introducing students to the Henri Lefebvre’s concept of social construction of space. Based on my previous teaching experiences, this was the most challenging concept for students, especially when they were expected to apply it in their own theorizing of place. I was hoping […]

Continue Reading →

Low-Stakes Activity — Jenn Polish (Consent-Based Pedagogy)

October 12, 2017 / 2 Comments on Low-Stakes Activity — Jenn Polish (Consent-Based Pedagogy)

Things that other people generally find low-stakes? I often find my pulse thrumming extra hard and my clothes starting to get soaked with sweat and my brain hitting a loop of “I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna, I don’t wanna.” I know — because they’ve told me — that many of my students experience this, […]

Continue Reading →