Research and Teaching: Impact of a Departmental Instructional Skills Course on Graduate Students’ Beliefs About Science Teaching and Learning | NSTA

Research and Teaching: Impact of a Departmental Instructional Skills Course on Graduate Students’ Beliefs About Science Teaching and Learning

Journal of College Science Teaching—May/June 2018

Graduate teaching assistants play an important role in undergraduate programs in the authors' Earth Science Department. A course on teaching and learning was developed to train graduate students in student-centered pedagogy, in a discipline-specific context. This article describes the development of the course and investigates the impact on graduate students’ beliefs about science teaching and learning.

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