Professional development for faculty and future faculty in order to transform our classrooms

Professional development for faculty and future faculty

in order to transform our classrooms

From Seminarcolepsy To Active Learning

Scientific Teaching

• Bio2010 (2003) National Research Council– recommendations for new biology curricula

that better reflect the nature of science.

• National Academies Summer Institute on Undergraduate Biology Education– Teaching science in a way that represents the

process and nature of science

Handelsman et al., 2004 Science 304:521-522.

The WVU Summer Institute on Undergraduate Math and Science

education

This ain’t ya mama’s education workshop!

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June

REGOpeningReception

PresentationsClosing lunchw/alumni

Morning interactive workshops:

Backward Design, Assessment, Active Learning, Diversity, Integrating across the Discipline

Afternoon Group Work:

Create teaching materials to implement back home.

Can my experience help you?

• Single workshops

• Departmental institutes

• Institutional institutes (STEM only)

• Regional Institutes

• National Institutes