1. Summarize your course work.
2. Recall basic concepts from week.
• Explain significance and context of these concepts.
3. Evaluate distinction between disciplinary and interdisciplinary research/teaching.
   • Develop ideas for interdisciplinary research/teaching at Qingdao.

1. Judge efficacy of practiced methods in relation to your own teaching
2. Break down strengths and weaknesses of interdisciplinary reseach/teaching in relation to your own work.

Introductions. Very briefly summarize the courses you teach (2 minute presentations in class)

• If you typically teach the same courses yearly, give a brief description of these.
• If you teach various courses with little regularity, you may choose which courses you want to describe.

Reflection on the week

• (Navigating the website)
• Important Concepts
• Learning Objectives: continuum of complexity
  • Thinking, lower-order & higher-order
  • Factual knowledge
  • Conceptual knowledge
  • Procedural knowledge
  • Metacognitive understanding
  • Cognitive Process Dimension
  • Remember
  • Understand
  • Apply
  • Analyze
  • Evaluate
  • Create
• Pedagogy
  • Definitions: Etymology
  • Dynamic Interaction
  • Intro- vs. extrovert
  • Pecha Kucha or Ignite (presentation style)
  • Student-centered teaching
  • Group Work
  • Think, pair, share
  • Guided discussions
  • Scribe
  • Interdisciplinarity
  • Sustainability
  • Lesson Plan(s); lesson planning
  • Beginning: Introduce learning objectives
  • Middle: Class content
  • End: Reiterate learning objectives
• Syllabus
  • Elements
  • Course Title
  • Contact information
  • Course description
  • Learning objectives (outcomes)
  • Grading structure
  • Administrative details

• Case Studies: PHI vs. ENS

• would it be possible to create an interdisciplinary sustainability center here at Qingdao?
  • Rationale to do so?
  • Barriers?
• Example: Institute of Sustainable Manufacturing at UK

1. What distinguishes a green revolution from a genuine sustainability revolution?
2. How is this distinction helpful to the creation of a sustainability rubric?