38-801 Evidence Based Teaching in STEM

7 units, Carnegie Mellon University

This course is designed to prepare PhD students from science disciplines to 1 teach effectively and efficiently as future faculty members 2 critically read and apply peerreviewed, STEMbased educational research and 3 adapt approaches from the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning SoTL to formatively assess student learning and iteratively improve teaching and course design. Together, we will explore the research on teaching and student learning, identifying and challenging our assumptions regarding how college students learn best in science disciplines. Participants will leverage this research to cultivate a diverse toolkit of evidencebased, studentcentered strategies for teaching and course design that may be applied to facetoface, blended, or online courses, both within and across STEM disciplines. Prior teaching experience is not required, but students must have completed their first year of PhD study to enroll. This course will not prepare or license participants to teach K12 students in Pennsylvania or elsewhere.

Prerequisites: none listed

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