Answer the following questions to help guide you through thinking about student expectations and assumptions. 1. What are my students’ expectations of or assumptions about the course content?
2. What are my students’ expectations of or assumptions about me? About how I will teach and
how they will learn?
3. What are my students’ expectations of or assumptions about how their learning will be assessed
(often framed as how they will be marked)?
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34 4. How likely am I to diverge from their expectations or assumptions? What effect might this have
on them as learners?
