Learning by Design: Course Design for Effective Student Learning
Join us for a hands-on workshop that will prepare you for developing or revising a course to be taught at or beyond Stanford. You will be able to:
All Postdocs. All the Time.
Teaching
Teaching Workshop for Postdocs
Tuesday, May 24 - Thursday, May 26, 9:00am – 11:30am
Presenters: Kelley M. Skeff, MD, PhD and Georgette A. Stratos, PhD, Center Co-Directors, Stanford Faculty Development Center for Medical Teachers Stanford University School of Medicine
Pedagogy Journal Club: Formative Versus Summative Assessments in Higher Education: Does it Promote Student Motivation and Learning?
Required Readings:
Hernández, R. (2012). Does continuous assessment in higher education support student learning? High Education,64; pp. 489–502. DOI: 10.1007/s10734-012-9506-7 -- LINK
Knight, P. T. (2002). Summative Assessment in Higher Education: Practices in disarray. Studies in Higher Education,27(3); pp. 275-286. DOI: 10.1080/03075070220000662 -- LINK
Pedagogy Journal Club: Teaching with Simulations
Required Readings:
Price, A., Wieman, C., & Perkins, K. (2019). Teaching With Simulations: Teachers use simulations for student motivation, content learning, and engagement in science practices. The Science Teacher,86(7); pp. 46-52. https://www.jstor.org/stable/26899147 -- LINK
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Pedagogy Journal Club: TBD
Teaching Workshop for Postdocs
Tuesday, February 8 - Thursday, February 10, 9:00am – 11:30am
Presenters: Kelley M. Skeff, MD, PhD and Georgette A. Stratos, PhD, Center Co-Directors, Stanford Faculty Development Center for Medical Teachers Stanford University School of Medicine
Pedagogy Journal Club: Toward Inclusive STEM Classrooms: What Personal Role Do Faculty Play?
Required Readings:
Killpack, T. L., & Melon, L. C. (2017). Toward Inclusive STEM Classrooms: What Personal Role Do Faculty Play? CBE Life Sciences Education,15(3); pp. 1-9. DOI: 10.1187/cbe.16-01-0020 -- LINK
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Pedagogy Journal Club: Teach More Effectively Through Active Learning
Required Readings:
Dolan, E.L., Collins, J. P. (2015). We must teach more effectively: here are four ways to get started. Molecular Biology of the Cell,26(12); pp. 2151-2155. DOI: 10.1091/mbc.E13-11-0675 -- LINK
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Pedagogy Journal Club: Approaches to Biology Teaching and Learning
Topic:
Approaches to biology teaching and learning, related to teaching strategies to promote student engagement and cultivate classroom equity.
Required Readings:
Tanner, K., & Allen, D. (2004). Approaches to Biology Teaching and Learning: Learning Styles and the Problem of Instructional Selection - Engaging All Students in Science Courses. Cell Biology Education,3(4); pp. 197-201. DOI:10.1187/cbe.04-07-0050 -- LINK
Pedagogy Journal Club: Time Management for Faculty Members, How to Preserve Teaching Quality?
Topic:
Faculty life is full of diverse duties and responsibilities that can become overwhelmingly time-consuming. "Multitasking" just means reducing the attention and the quality of our focus on individual tasks, and often, teaching is the first field to suffer from this lack of time. Learning to control your time, however, may be a significant factor in your job success as a faculty member.
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