Facilitators will discuss the design and assessment of vocational exploration projects based on equity-based teaching practices. They will demonstrate that vocational exploration and discernment can become a wider discursive framework that naturally connects equity-based teaching strategies to assessment. On the one hand, reflection and discernment require providing opportunities for meaning-making and success to all students, regardless of their particular backgrounds. On the other hand, purposeful learning requires data-driven teaching and consistent improvement in learning. Participants will reflect on the design and implementation of equity-based and assessable curricular and co-curricular projects that promote vocational discernment.
Antonios Finitsis, Professor of Hebrew Bible and Executive Director for the Wild Hope Center for Vocation, Pacific Lutheran University (WA)
Scott Rogers, Associate Professor of English and Dean of Assessment and Core Curriculum, Pacific Lutheran University (WA)
Laree Winer, Operations Director for the Wild Hope Center for Vocation, Pacific Lutheran University (WA)