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#6: Instructional Design: Have Conversations with Your Colleagues (Back-to-School Countdown)

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In This Vlog with Sarah Brown Wessling:

An important practice as we're designing our course is to talk to our colleagues and get their thoughts on how to make our big ideas relevant to students. What do I do because of that conversation? How am I mapping out the learning?

In talking to my colleagues, I've been reminded of these important ideas:

1. Ask students to push their personal limits

2. Give students an iterative assignment that builds through the course

3. Be patient and kind to myself as I plan my course

Your Turn:

1. Find a buddy and take a look at this Observation Challenge: Seeing the Invisible. (Download the observation guide here.) And if you're feeling ambitious, take what you've learned in the challenge, find a video from our library, and add your observations to the discussion section.

2. Or, share in the comment section below the best advice you've received from a colleague!

3. Check out this video on how I've used podcasts to give my students feedback.

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Sarah Brown Wessling is a high school English teacher in Johnston, Iowa. She is the 2010 National Teacher of the Year and is the Teacher Laureate for Teaching Channel. Connect with Sarah on Twitter – @SarahWessling.

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