Course Outline

Congratulations, you have been hired to teach a specific course. It is important for you to know the purpose of the course and objectives students should be working toward during the course. This information is found on the course outline.

Every course offered at Centralia College has an approved course outline. The course outline shows you what students are expected to learn in that course. If you were not provided the course outline, please check with your dean. Course outlines are filed under department division codes. Department division codes and be found in the quarterly schedule. Example: 6123 ENGL& 101 English Composition is the course you were hired to teach.

You might receive information and previous curriculum from the dean, department chair, or other faculty. You can use the material provided and also have the right to edit, and modify what you were provided to better suit your strengths. Your focus is on teaching material that allows students the opportunity to learn the course objectives found on the course outline.

Assessment

How do you know what the students learned? Linking assessments (graded work) to the course outcomes will provide you the opportunity to collect data on student learning. As a college, we focus on continual assessment and improvement. Assessing student work in a meaningful and consistent manner is one way we prove student learn to our accreditation body, NWCCU.

If you have questions or would like to learn more about assessment, please talk to your dean and consider attending an assessment committee meeting (your dean will have information on dates/times).

Quarterly Assessment

You will be enrolled in a Canvas course where you will use a tool to complete a quarterly assessment of one of your courses. This assessment is not used to evaluate you individually and will not be shared with anyone except the Faculty Assessment co-chair and the college's Institutional Researcher. The information may be shared anonymously with accreditors. You will hear more about that from the Faculty Assessment committee.