Successful Science and Engineering Teaching in Colleges and Universities, 2nd Edition

ISBN-13: 9781681239576 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 196 str.

Calvin S. Kalman

Spis treści

• PART I: INTRODUCTION, ROAD MAP OF THE BOOK.
• Writing to Learn.
• Two Goals for Any Science and Engineering Course.
• Questions by Students.
• What Students Get Out of Class.
• In?Class and Out?of?Class Activities.
• Solving Problems.
• Computer Aids.
• PART II: REFLECTIVE WRITING.
• Freewriting.
• Getting Students to Read Material in the Textbook Before Coming to Class.
• Gadamer’s Hermeneutical Approach.
• Instructions on Doing Reflective Writing.
• Samples of Student Use of Reflective Writing.
• Marking Reflective Writing.
• Student Response to Reflective Writing.
• Reflective Writing Rubric.
• PART III: WRITING TO LEARN.
• Reflective Write–Pair–Share.
• Scenario for a Class.
• The Course Dossier Method.
• Transforming Each Lecture Into a Mini Research Paper.
• End of Semester.
• Hosting an End of Semester Conference.
• PART IV: CONSTRUCTING STUDENT KNOWLEDGE.
• Cognitive Dissonance Students’ Intellectual Development.
• Student Misconceptions.
• Debate in the Science Education Community.
• Critical Thinking.
• PART V: COLLABORATIVE GROUPS.
• Team Work and Group Projects Benefits to Having Students Work in Groups.
• Team Formation.
• Team Size.
• Team Management.
• Team Evaluation.
• Group Development.
• Classroom Warmups.
• Roles for Group Member.
• Dysfunctional Groups.
• PART VI: UTILIZING COLLABORATIVE GROUPS TO PROMOTE CONCEPTUAL CONFLICT.
• Conceptual Conflict.
• Peer Instruction.
• Collaborative Group Conceptual Conflict Activity.
• Comparison of Peer Instruction With the Conceptual Conflict Group Activity.
• Incommensurabilty in Conceptual Change.
• Task Sheets for Warm?Up and the Four Concept Exercises.
• CHAPTER VII: SELECTED METHODS OF UTILIZING COLLABORATIVE GROUPS.
• Labatorials.
• Jigsaw.
• The Learning Cell.
• Concept Mapping.
• Collaborative Concept Mapping.
• Appendix.
• Sample Labatorial Worksheet.
• PART VIII: CHANGING STUDENTS’ EPISTEMOLOGIES.
• Developing a Scientific Mindset.
• Stages in Epistemic Development in Students.
• Critique Exercise.
• Model Course:
• Presenting Students With Alternative Frameworks: Pre?Galilean Physics and Newtonian Physics.
• The Calgary Study: Reflective Writing and Labatorials.
• Epistemology.
• Critique Exercise.
• Students’ Epistemic Thinking.
• Appendix: Critique #1.
• Critique #2.
• Critique #3.
• PART VIII: PROBLEM SOLVING.
• Solving Problems Using Templates Versus Solutions.
• Using Paradigms.
• Five?Step Method for Solving Problems.
• PART X: METHODS FOR TRAINING STUDENTS TO SOLVE PROBLEMS.
• Writing Their Way Into the Solution.
• Collaborative Problem?Solving Groups.
• How Many People Should Be in the Group?
• Who Should Be Placed in the Group?
• Individual Accountability.
• Appendix.
• A Student’s Advice for Studying Physics.
• PART XI: USING THE COMPUTER TO AID TEACHING.
• Computer?Assisted Instruction (CAI).
• Using the Computer to Manage Laboratories.
• References.