Mon, May 27, 2013 12:00 PM - 1:00 PM IRVING K. BARBER LEARNING CENTRE. Free - Please Register. How do education research results inform post-secondary teaching practice?
This session will include some lessons learned from the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative at UBC and a recent wide survey of physics faculty in the United States (Henderson, Dancy, and Niewiadomska-Bugaj, Use of research-based instructional strategies in introductory physics: Where do faculty leave the innovation-decision process?, 2012, DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevSTPER.8.020104). Participants will be asked to consider their own interactions with evidence-based practices as skeptics, adopters, and producers.
(Note: though examples in this session will be drawn primarily from teaching in science disciplines, there will be essentially no science content; we expect that the results and questions they provoke will have much broader appeal.)
Location: Irving K. Barber Learning Centre Seminar Room 2.22A/B