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How do I engage my students?

Large lecture:
Bownds
Ives
Schneider
Susman (Biocore)
Waller
Robertson

 Smaller class:
Grummer
Young
Bement
Straub
Diekelmann
Lazarus
Conhaim
How do I get students to use data to answer questions?
Wiltbank
Armentano
Waller

Downs
Barclay
Anderson

My students have difficulty integrating knowledge from previous courses or even from previous parts of my course!

Combs
Norback
Allen-Hoffman
Escalante
Croxdale

Bohnhoff
Smith
Langston
Stier
Schaefer

How do we help students apply what they have learned?

Large classes:
Attie
Nelson
Ives
Susman (Genetics)
Escalante
Winterstein
Robertson

Small group or lab problem solving:
Stanosz
Hartel
Burgess
Myers
Downs
Barclay
Straub
Schaefer
Lazarus
Walker

How can students get the most meaning from laboratory experiences?

Nibert
Straub
Gunasekaran
Conhaim
Lazarus

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Our students come into class with such diverse backgrounds and needs!
Discovering what they know:
MacGuidwin
Strand
Wylie
Teaching:
Palmenberg
McCown
Langston
Wylie
Winterstein
Walker
Putting course content into a context

Allen
Theis
Bleam
Bromley
Burgess

Straub
Siegel
Langston
Karls
Stier
Winterstein
Lazarus
Schaefer

New ways to teaching difficult concepts

Rouse
Kung
Barak
Ganetzky

Sharkey
Waller
Smith
Kruger
Biological life cycles don't fit with the class period/semester system!
Mahr
Goldman
 
Can distance learning give our students access to new resources?
Hogg
Scheibel
 
How do we find out how others teach our subjects?
Provencher
 
Can we encourage creativity?
Campbell
Schaefer
 
Comunication with and within a large lecture class

MacGuidwin
Bleam
Scheibel
Winterstein
Robertson
Strang

 
Seeing the forest for the trees
Croxdale
 
How do we know what to change in our teaching?
Bubenzer
Karls
Nehls
 
How do we get students to appreciate diversity in viewpoints?
Bromley
Langston
Wylie
 

Innovation in Teaching is monthly brownbag series sponsored by CALS Instructional Improvement Committee and the Center for Biology Education at the UW-Madison.

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Lillian Tong (tong@facstaff.wisc.edu)
Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison. Last modified May 12, 1999