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IN & BEYOND THE CLASSROOM
" . . a study of six thousand physics students compared
classes using passive lecture to classes using interactive
techniques that alloed for discussion among students and between the
professor and students. The study showed that studens in classes
that used interactive approaches rather than lecture learned twice
as much."
from: Ten
Easy Ways to Engage Your Students by Gray & Madson 2007
Topic 9 - Fostering learner-centered education in the
classroom: Discussions
Guest Speaker:
Terri Riffe, Ph.D. (Office of Instruction
& Assessment - OIA)
Class topics:
- How to
facilitate effective class discussions
- Other interactive learning techniques for the classroom
READING PREPARATION:
For March 23rd -- prepare for our class
on "DISCUSSIONS" by reviewing these readings:
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In Tools for Teaching,
read chapters 9-13
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Terri Riffe. Ph.D., of the OIA ( our
guest presenter for this Wed March 23rd) has suggested the
following interesting READINGS
for Topic 9 on Class Discussions. They
are posted in D2L
under
CONTENT - For Topic 9 on Facilitating
Class Discussions:
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Facilitating Discussion: Posing
Problems, Listening, Questioning
(Chapter 5 in
McKeachie's Teaching Tips: Strategies, Research, and
Theory for College and University Teachers (College
Teaching) 2005
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Inductive Teaching and Learning
Methods: Definitions, Comparisons, and Research Bases
(Michael
J. Prince & Richard M. Felder, Journal of
Engineering Education 2006)
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Ten Easy Ways to Engage Your
Students Actions for topic - Ten Easy Ways to Engage
Your Students
(Tara Gray & Laura Madson 2007
)
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Cool Calling: A Creative Way to
Start
(The Teaching Professor Dec 2009)
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Grading Rubric for Online Class
Discussions
(from the OIA)
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Note that we will meet in our regular classroom,
HARVILL 435D, (not the OIA) for this
Wednesday's class.
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FYI
-- here is Terri's short bio:
http://oia.arizona.edu/content/terri-riffe-phd
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