Scientific Teaching

ISBN-13: 9781429201889 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006 / 208 str.

Christine Pfund

Opis

Seasoned classroom veterans, pre-tenured faculty, and neophyte teaching assistants alike will find this book invaluable.

HHMI Professor Jo Handelsman and her colleagues at the Wisconsin Program for Scientific Teaching (WPST) have distilled key findings from education, learning, and cognitive psychology and translated them into six chapters of digestible research points and practical classroom examples. The recommendations have been tried and tested in the National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Education in Biology and through the WPST. Scientific Teaching is not a prescription for better teaching. Rather, it encourages the reader to approach teaching in a way that captures the spirit and rigor of scientific research and to contribute to transforming how students learn science.

Spis treści

PARTS I-IV: Overview of the Landscape of Scientific Teaching and its Three Facets: Active Learning, Assessment, and Diversity.- PART V: Putting Scientific Teaching to Work by Helping the Reader Build a Framework for Instructional Materials that Focus on What Students Will Learn .- PART VI: Strategies to Enlist Collegial Support and Integrate Scientific Teaching into Faculty Culture.