
Teaching Undergraduate Science
A Guide to Overcoming Obstacles to Student Learning
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Teaching Undergraduate Science: A Guide to Overcoming Obstacles to Student Learning offers college and university instructors evidence-based strategies to help students learn those specific skills and habits of mind necessary for succeeding in STEM fields.
Updated and expanded from the first edition, this text elaborates on critical factors in cultivating student success, including how to engender a sense of belonging and agency in STEM, engage students in their learning, and foster deliberate practice. Hodges provides frank guidance on the relative effort and outcomes for each strategy, allowing instructors to choose techniques best suited to their aims and contexts. While focusing primarily on face-to-face classes, this resource also addresses how to work between online resources and physical spaces. Hodges' years of experience working as and with STEM faculty provides a personal connection to the research shared, producing an accessible, practical, and enjoyable read.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Endorsement Page
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction: Making the most of the time we spend teaching
- 2 Engendering students’ sense of belonging and engagement in STEM
- 3 Motivating, engaging, and empowering students to learn on their own
- 4 Helping students get the most out of class time
- 5 Helping students learn from reading
- 6 Helping students learn, and learn from, problem solving
- 7 Helping students learn from tests and assignments
- 8 Helping students learn from laboratory work and research
- 9 Helping students learn to write like a scientist
- 10 Making choices about what and how to teach in STEM
- Index