Scientific Teaching

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 Teachingis 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.

ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgments 1  Scientific Teaching2  Active Learning3  Assessment4  Diversity5  A Framework for Constructing a Teachable Unit6  Institutional Transformation Scientific Teaching WorkshopsWorkshop Contents  I     Scientific TeachingII    Active LearningIII   AssessmentIV   Diversity V    Institutional Transformation References