Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership Between Science Educators and Their Students (e-book)

eBook | October 2009

Lecture-Free Teaching: A Learning Partnership Between Science Educators and Their Students provides readers with an innovative alternative to routine lecturing. With the Lecture-Free Teaching method, teachers build “…

Professional Learning Communities for Science Teaching: Lessons From Research and Practice (e-book)

eBook | June 2009

What would it take to move your school or district closer toward a culture that supports and sustains professional learning communities (PLCs)? This thought-provoking collection of stories detailing seven…

Learning Outside the Classroom: Practical Suggestions for Reorganizing Courses to Promote Higher-Order Thinking

Journal Article | December 2004

Exposing students to content outside of the classroom encourages them to take control of their learning. This article describes three methods for redesigning courses to create more class time for the development of…

“Creative Final Projects” in Mathematics and Science: An Educational Instrument for Maximizing Students' Learning and Understanding

Journal Article | January 2000

In a final class project, art and communications students taking science and mathematics courses at Chicago’s Columbia College and the Illinois Institute of Art produce a significant creative work using a media of their…