Teaching in the Sciences: Learner-Centered ApproachesAcram Taji Gain a clear understanding of what effective teachers do—and how successful students learn Over the past 20 years, a greater concentration on research aimed at both teaching and learning has revealed that “chalk and talk” teaching, copying notes, and “cookbook” practical lessons offer little challenge to students. Teaching in the Sciences: Learner-Centered Approaches steers the learning process away from traditional modes of instruction to a more student-centered, activity-based curriculum that makes science relevant, engaging, and interesting. This innovative book helps educators bring out the best in their students—and themselves—by identifying and meeting students’ needs and providing environments that encourage active, strategic learning. Helpful tables and figures make complex information easy to access and understand. Rather than focusing on teaching methods that merely deal in the content of life science, Teaching in the Sciences: Learner-Centered Approaches promotes a deep learning designed to develop critical and skilled learners. This collection of frank and thoughtful empirically based papers places greater emphasis on learning environments and social interaction patterns, assessment processes, and perceptions of students and teachers in a range of learning and teaching settings in the life sciences. The book presents strategies for mentoring and assessing students, assessments of learning outcomes, innovative approaches to curriculum design, constructivist approaches to teaching science, how to use technology to support learning, and practical examples of learner-centered teaching that mark important steps on a journey to transform the learning process. Teaching in the Sciences: Learner-Centered Approaches examines:
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Contents
Introduction | 3 |
Susan Barker | 9 |
1 | 24 |
A LearnerCentered Approach to a Laboratory Simulation | 34 |
Conclusion | 59 |
Teaching Problem Solving | 66 |
An Online Tutorial to Support Metacognition | 73 |
Conclusion | 79 |
The Faculty Mentor Program at UNE | 130 |
Conclusion | 136 |
Two Common Threads | 143 |
Encouraging a Deep Approach to Learning | 149 |
Application of ICT to Provide Feedback | 157 |
Assessing for Learning in the Crucial | 177 |
Specific Assessment Techniques for Large FirstYear | 183 |
Conclusion | 193 |
Distributed ProblemBased Learning | 85 |
Assignment Structure and Learner Support | 92 |
Conclusion | 100 |
The Need for OpenEnded Tasks | 115 |
StudentCentered Learning Support | 123 |
Exploring the Usefulness of Broadband | 199 |
Teaching for Student Engagement in Science | 206 |
Conclusion | 212 |
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