Foundations of Pedagogy: February – April 2024

Week 1: Introduction to Teaching

Learning Objectives:

• Formulate your individual teaching development goals
• Reflect on your teaching teaching philosophy

Week 2: How People Learn (Theories of Learning)

Learning Objectives:

• Relate theories of learning to your own experience.
• Contrast novice and experts approaches to learning
• Describe how students’ prior knowledge and metacognition influence learning

Pre-Reading:

• Bransford (2000) Learning: From Speculation to Science
• Ross (2006) The Expert Mind
• Dweck (2015) The Remarkable Reach of Growth Mindsets

Week 3: Designing Well Aligned Lessons

Learning Objectives:

• Formulate a learning objective for your STEM mini lesson
• Develop well aligned active learning and assessment techniques
• Give and receive meaningful feedback on any lesson plan

Week 4: Learning Objectives

Learning Objectives:

• Design realistic, achievable, measurable and student-centered learning objectives
• Analyze any learning objective with respect to Bloom’s Taxonomy.

Pre-Reading:

• Ambrose (2010) How Learning Works Appendix D
• O’Neill (2010) Biology Implementation of Blooming Tool
• Dunham (2015) Statistics Implementation of Blooming Tool
• Simon & Taylor (2009) What is the Value of Course-specific Goals?
• Krathwohl (2002) A Revision of Bloom’s Taxonomy

Week 5: Active Learning

Learning Objectives:

• Describe several common STEM active learning strategies
• Evaluate active learning strategies in light of theories of learning

Pre-Reading:

• Freeman (2014) Active Learning Increases Student Performance in Science, Engineering, and Mathematics
• Jones (2007) Reconsidering the Lecture
• Wieman (2014) Large Scale Comparison of Science Teaching Methods Sends Clear Message
• Hake (1998) Interactive engagement vs traditional lecture – a six-thousand student survey

Week 6: Assessment that Support Student Learning

Learning Objectives:

• Describe several assessment techniques and recognize their alignment with particular types of learning goals.
• Evaluate assessment techniques as learning/feedback opportunities

Pre-Reading:

• Key points from Gibbs and Simpson (CWSEI, 2015) Assessments that Support Student Learning
• Gilley and Clarkston (2014) Collaborative Testing: Evidence of Learning in a Controlled In-Class Study of Undergraduate Students
• WNCP (2006) Rethinking Classroom Assessment with Purpose in Mind; Section II

Week 7: Learning Through Diversity

Learning Objectives:

• Define diversity, equity and inclusion, and their implications for the classroom
• Implement strategies for creating equitable and inclusive classrooms

Pre-Reading:

• Kivel (2004) The Culture of Power
• Tanner (2013) 21 Teaching Strategies to Promote Inclusivity
• Winkelmes (2016) A Teaching Intervention that Increases Underserved College Student’s Success

Week 8: Teaching Portfolio

Learning Objectives:

• Refine your statement of teaching philosophy
• Identify at least one idea for each component of your teaching portfolio
• Define at least 1 next-step to preparing your teaching portfolio

Pre-Reading:

• Grundman (2006) Writing a Teaching Philosophy Statement
• Vanderbilt University Online Guide on Teaching Philosophy Statements
• White & Conrod (2016) pIs nothing sacred? Our personal teaching philosophies have been plagiarized