Choose your Fighter

Allow your students some freedom – maybe they can choose the topic of that paper, or choose to forego the paper entirely and create something new and entirely theirs.

Details

Professor: Sir Durwin Santos
Subject: MAT111 – Math in the Modern World

Intended Learning Outcome: Apply concepts learned in class through their chosen medium.

Feedback and Comments

• Since Sir Durwin encouraged any type of creative output, along with a short process paper, he used this design pattern for the final project. We urge professors to consider the types of output they’re expecting from their students before deciding the weight and timing of this design pattern.
• For Doc Wanwan’s class, she allowed students to choose a topic for their final requirement, then provided options for the format of their submission (a paper, an infographic, or a news article).
• For literature classes, you can opt use this design pattern every few chapters. Have students choose a chapter (or character) that they’re most interested to write about for their paper, then repeat the process after another few chapters.
• Professors should try to schedule consultations with students to help them narrow down their scope of topics, and also manage expectations re. the output they want to submit.

 (I want) the students to make something that they’ll be proud of, and that won’t just become trash. It’s a matter of thinking of a kind of assessment that will be relevant to the students. 
Some of the final outputs from the students: self-made music tracks, a MS-Excel based allowance tracker, digital artwork, table top books, etc.

– Sir Durwin Santos

U.N.I.T.A.S. Design Principles demonstrated in this design pattern