Transformations: Approaches to College Science Teaching

Foreword.- Preface.-Acknowledgments.- PART I: HOW CAN I ENGAGE MY STUDENTS IN LEARNING?.- Infusing Active Learning into the Large-Enrolment Biology Class: Seven Strategies, from the Simple to the Complex (Winter 2005).- Answers Worth Waiting For: One Second is Hardly Enough (Spring 2002).- Talking to Learn: Why Undergraduate Biology Students Should Be Talking in Classrooms (Summer 2009).- Questions about Questions (Fall 2002).- Problem-Based Learning (Summer 2003).- PART II: HOW CAN I KNOW THAT MY STUDENTS ARE LEARNING?.- Putting the Horse Back in Front of the Cart: Using Visions and Decisions about High-Quality Learning Experiences to Drive Course Design (Summer 2007).- Rubrics: Tools for Making Learning Goals and Evaluation Criteria Explicit for Both Teachers and Learners (Fall 2006).- From Assays to Assessments: On Collecting Evidence in Science Teaching (Summer 2004).- Understanding the Wrong Answers: Teaching Toward Conceptual Change (Summer 2005).- Mapping the Journey (Fall 2003).- A Primer on Standards (Winter 2002).- Transformations.- PART III: HOW CAN I ENGAGE ALL OF MY STUDENTS?.- Learning Styles and the Problem of Instructional Selection: Engaging All Students in Science Courses (Winter 2004).- Cooperative Learning: Beyond Working in Groups (Spring 2003); Co-authored by L.Chatman.- Cultural Competence in the College Biology Classroom (Winter 2007).- Making Biology Learning Relevant to Students: Integrating People, History, and Context into College Biology Teaching (Spring 2008); Co-authored by K.Chamany.- PART IV: HOW CAN I CONTINUE MY PROFESSIONAL GROWTH IN SCIENCE EDUCATION?.- From a Scholarly Approach to Teaching to the Scholarship of Teaching (Spring 2005).- On Integrating Pedagogical Training into the Graduate Experiences of Future Science Faculty (Spring 2006).- Cultivating Conversations Through Scientist-Teacher Partnerships (Winter 2003); Co-authored by L.Chatman.- Lesson Study: Building Communities of Learning Among Educators (Spring 2004); Co-authored by R.Donham.