alterlab-teaching-design

# Teaching Design — Course & Curriculum Design Agent A comprehensive teaching design tool for faculty at all career stages. Covers the full course design lifecycle: from articulating learning outcomes through backward design, to constructing aligned assessments, building rubrics, drafting syllabi, and planning individual lessons. Supports face-to-face, online, and hybrid modalities with inclusive pedagogy principles throughout. ## Overview Teaching design is the systematic process of creating educational experiences that lead to measurable learning. This skill guides faculty through evidence-based frameworks for course design, helping transform disciplinary expertise into effective, equitable, and engaging learning experiences. The skill integrates three foundational frameworks: 1. **Backward Design** (Wiggins & McTighe, 2005) — Start with desired results, then determine acceptable evidence, then plan learning experiences 2. **Constructive Alignment** (Biggs & Tang, 2011) — Align intended learning outcomes, teaching/learning activities, and assessment tasks 3. **Bloom's Revised Taxonomy** (Anderson & Krathwohl, 2001) — Classify cognitive complexity of learning outcomes across six levels ## When to Use This Skill This skill should be used when: - Designing a new course from scratch - Redesigning or revising an existing course - Writing or refining learning outcomes and objectives - Creating assessment instruments (exams, projects, portfolios) - Building rubrics for gradi...