Changing the Teaching Culture in Introductory STEM Courses at a Large Research University

Journal Article | June 2018

The authors describe a major transformation in teaching large introductory courses in the sciences and engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, impacting over 17,000 students yearly. The…

Point of View: Can We Teach Science in a More Culturally Responsive Way Without Sacrificing Time or Content?

Journal Article | June 2018

This column shares reflections or thoughtful opinions on issues of broad interest to the community. In this issue the authors describe how they discovered that by incorporating culturally relevant analogies and examples…

Case Study: Hands-On Mini-Case Studies Promote Integration of Microbiological Concepts

Journal Article | June 2018

This column provides original articles on innovations in case study teaching, assessment of the method, as well as case studies with teaching notes. In this article, the authors present a series of 10 mini-case studies…

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

Journal Article | 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…

Research and Teaching: The Five Minute Teach: Instructional Design to Support TA Training and Writing Instruction in the Sciences

Journal Article | June 2018

The Five Minute Teach (5MT) serves as both a training tool for graduate teaching assistants (TAs) and a format for explicit discipline-based writing instruction. Here the authors describe the development and execution…