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Deep teaching in a college STEM classroom: Part 2
At our May 25 meeting, we discussed the second half of the article, “Deep teaching in a college STEM classroom”, by Bryan M. Dewsbury, in Cultural Studies of Science Education (2020) 15: 169-191 (Dewsbury Deep Teaching). Consider the following questions: In what way is learning is a social behavior, as proposed in the article? […]
Deep teaching in college STEM classroom: Part 1
At our May 18 meeting, we discussed the first half of the article, “Deep teaching in a college STEM classroom”, by Bryan M. Dewsbury, in Cultural Studies of Science Education (2020) 15: 169-191 (Dewsbury Deep Teaching). Consider the following questions: What is meant by ‘Deep Teaching’? Connect with students to connect them with content. […]
What strategies have been most successful in your STEM courses over the past year?
In our first meeting this semester, participants responded to the following questions. Their answers appear below. The intention was to share ideas about success strategies that have worked well in our STEM classrooms during the past year. What are the top three things you do that contribute to student success? • Teach a concept, then […]
Alternative assessments
At this meeting, we discussed several types of alternative assessments for fully online learning, meaning assessments other than traditional exams. Participants contributed ideas based on our experiences, and brainstormed best practices. Participants agreed that proctoring software is likely not the best approach, for the following reasons: Students have the option to refuse Students can easily […]
Conducting remote/virtual research with students: Resources and tips
For our second meeting of the fall semester, we: Shared resources for conducting remote and/or virtual research with students Discussed how to use these resources effectively A summary of our discussion follows. Tips: Schedule adequate time to explore the resources before beginning any projects with students. This will probably be a lot more time than […]
Active Learning Strategies for Online, Asynchronous Courses
At our first fall 2020 meeting on Sept 29, we discussed ideas and suggestions from the articles listed in the references at the end of this post, and then participants shared their own ideas for active learning online. Highlights from our discussion included: Why do faculty and students generally believe that in-person learning is superior? […]
Creating and grading effective lab reports for STEM labs
In our final meeting for Spring 2020 on June 2, we discussed how to create and grade effective lab reports for online labs. The following ideas were shared. Many different formats can work for online lab reports: a word document emailed or submitted on blackboard, a screenshot of a completed online simulation, etc. Lab reports […]
Effective online activities for STEM labs
In our second meeting for Spring 2020 on May 12, faculty shared online activities they had used and found effective for lab. The list discussed appears below, and these (and others) were added to an online repository accessible to all STEM colleagues (for the moment, only KCC BIO Dept faculty have participated). This is the […]
Teaching STEM labs online
In the first meeting of the Spring 2020 STEM faculty interest group, we had moved to emergency online teaching after the COVID crisis began. After 6 weeks of online teaching, we met on April 28 and discussed the following key questions. Here are some of the thoughts shared by the participants: What are the goals […]
Second meeting
Goals for this semester: Identify (and later, evaluate) resources and initiatives at KCC that support student success in STEM Identify opportunities for research projects assessing the effectiveness of these resources and initiatives Produce a report summarizing our findings (and figure out to whom we can present it) Today’s discussion: We reviewed the 2018 National Academies […]
