Successful science and engineering teaching in colleges and universities / Calvin S. Kalman.
Material type: TextPublisher: Bolton, Mass. : Anker Pub., 2007Copyright date: ℗♭2007Edition: 1st edDescription: v, 164 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781933371160
- 1933371161
- 507.11
- Q 181 .K35 2007
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 151-160) and index.
Introduction -- Reflective writing -- Writing-to-learn -- Constructing student knowledge -- Collaborative groups -- Selected methods for using collaborative groups -- Changing students' epistemologies -- Problem solving -- Methods of training students to solve problems -- Using the computer to aid teaching.
This book offers broad, practical strategies for teaching science and engineering courses and describes how faculty can provide a learning environment that helps students comprehend the nature of science, understand science concepts, and solve problems in science courses. The student-centered approach focuses on two main themes: reflective writing and working in collaborative groups. When faculty incorporate methods into their courses that challenge their students to critically reflect, collaborate, and problem solve, students gain a better understanding of science as a connected structure of concepts rather than as a simple tool kit of assorted practices. -- Publisher's Description.
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