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Teaching in the Sciences: Learner-Centered Approaches
Gain a clear understanding of what effective teachers doand 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 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 studentsand themselvesby 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 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 Learner-Centered Approaches
using broadband videoconferencing for distance learning in tertiary science
assessing for learning in the crucial first year of university studies
using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in molecular science
applying ICT to provide student feedback
teaching biostatistics in the environmental life sciences
developing metacognition and problem-solving skills in students
the evolution of metAHEAD, an online resource that supports strategy development and self-monitoring in problem solving
the development of a problem-based learning approach (PBL) for students in environmental science and natural resource management
and much more! While largely centered on the context of undergraduate science instruction, Teaching in the Learner-Centered Approaches is filled with valuable lessons for all educators working with students in the pursuit of powerful, effective, and lasting learning.
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 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 studentsand themselvesby 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 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 Learner-Centered Approaches
using broadband videoconferencing for distance learning in tertiary science
assessing for learning in the crucial first year of university studies
using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in molecular science
applying ICT to provide student feedback
teaching biostatistics in the environmental life sciences
developing metacognition and problem-solving skills in students
the evolution of metAHEAD, an online resource that supports strategy development and self-monitoring in problem solving
the development of a problem-based learning approach (PBL) for students in environmental science and natural resource management
and much more! While largely centered on the context of undergraduate science instruction, Teaching in the Learner-Centered Approaches is filled with valuable lessons for all educators working with students in the pursuit of powerful, effective, and lasting learning.
251 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 7, 2005
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