This hands-on face-to-face workshop is designed to guide you through the essential process of aligning your learning outcomes to learning activities and/or assessments. Aligning learning outcomes to learning activities allows for more purposeful, targeted and impactful learning experiences. Whether you are a new educator or looking to refine your skills, this workshop will provide you with the tools to effectively design, evaluate, and align your learning outcomes to instructional activities and assessments.

Through a blend of theory and practice, you will explore the key characteristics of effective learning outcomes and gain the confidence to critique and create your own. You will also learn how to align these outcomes with your teaching strategies, learning activities and assessments to ensure a cohesive and impactful learning experience.

Who Should Attend:
Educators, instructional designers, and anyone involved in creating or assessing educational content will benefit from this workshop.

What You’ll Learn:

- The importance of learning outcomes in shaping effective teaching and learning.
- The key characteristics that define high-quality learning outcomes.
- The criteria for evaluating learning outcomes for clarity, specificity, and alignment.
- How to align learning outcomes with instructional activities and assessments for a cohesive educational experience.

Workshop Learning Outcomes:
By the end of this workshop, you will be able to:

1. Examine the value of learning outcomes in effective teaching and learning.
2. Identify the characteristics of effective learning outcomes and how they can enhance your instructional design.
3. Map learning outcomes to instructional activities and assessments for maximum impact.
4. Evaluate the alignment of learning outcomes to instructional activities and assessments

Mastering Learning Outcomes: Writing and Aligning for Effective Teaching