Teaching STEM √
Discuss evidence-based practices with your colleagues!
Location
The Commons : 329
Date & Time
January 15, 2019, 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm
Description
How do we make
our STEM classes inclusive and effective for our diverse students today? Join
your colleagues for a discussion of evidence-based teaching practices that help
support all students as learners. We will use ideas in the three papers below as a starting point for our conversation—please
read them in advance.
- On faculty development of STEM
inclusive teaching practices by Bryan Dewsbury in FEMS Microbiology
Letters, 364, 2017, fnx179
- Enhancing diversity in college science
with active learning by Cissy Ballen in J. J.
Mintzes & E. M. Walter (Eds.), Active learning in college science: The
case for evidence-based practice. New York, NY: Springer Nature,
forthcoming 2019. (Attached. Click "Download Document" below to download this article.)
- When group work doesn't work: Insights from students by Yunjeong Chang and Peggy Brickman, CBE Life Sciences Education 17:ar52, 1-17, Fall 2018
Lunch will be provided to all registered participants, please
click “Going” below to reserve your seat for this session. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
to note any dietary restrictions (vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free, food
allergies, etc.) by Tuesday, January 8, 2018. The deadline to register
for this event is the earlier of Tuesday, January 8, 2018 or when the
event reaches capacity. Please email fdc@umbc.edu
to be added to a wait list if the event is full. If you have
registered and find that you can no longer attend, please kindly release
your spot so that others may attend.
√ Counts toward ALIT Certificate
