Instructor: Pedagogy Journal

The instructor's pedagogy journal mirrors the students' design journals - it provides space for sustained, regular reflection on course design, project work, ideas that students prompt in discussion, and more. Keeping a pedagogy journal is helpful for completing reflections, as well as iteratively identifying assessment criteria.

Maintaining this journal also serves as a model for students who may be newer to notetaking and journaling. This is a document that cannot be fully private, as it may be helpful to share snippets and pages with students. I typically keep a "private" section of the book, either near the end or on clearly marked facing pages, to make it easier to feel comfortable with others leafing through notes. The private section contains any material that would not be appropriate to share, such as any graded material (e.g. tracking individual student completion rates on assigned work).