This past week I’ve met with a student nurse a couple of times. They are working on a paper for leadership class and they mentioned something that was an interesting spin.
They love to cook and have come to think about each syllabus and each assignment as a recipe.
Huh.
Never thought if it that way before.
That is a very good point.
You have the building blocks of the syllabus or the ingredients in a recipe.
To carry the idea further the dates of the class assignments can be the time until the food is done.
And the ingredients can be analyzed further by their rubrics. This is where I got really interested.
A rubric is a cookbook of sorts for an assignment.
It clearly lays out the expectations of the assignment. And how much was section of the assignment is worth to the grade.
To reference it to my own school work, the syllabus is the cookbook, and the assignments are the different courses.
I like this. As a baker, I can get behind this.
And I will use this idea for Fall semester.
After all, the outcome of the recipe is only as good as the attention to detail of the preparer.
I have three classes, each will have syllabi and assignments. Each assignment will have a rubric. This means that I will have three cookbooks, with the expectation of X number of courses.
And if an assignment simmers too long, the preparer runs the risk of the souffle falling, to carry the idea to extremes.
This I like.
This I understand.
Now, how to convey this idea to students in my TA course who are struggling?
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