Successful Science and Engineering Teaching in Colleges and Universities (JB - Anker)

Based on the author's work in science and engineering educational research, this book offers broad, practical strategies for teaching science and engineering courses and describes how faculty can provide a learning environment that helps students comprehend the nature of science, understand science concepts, and solve problems in science courses.

This book's student-centered approach focuses on two main themes: reflective writing and collaborative groups. When faculty incorporate these methods into their courses, students gain a better understanding of science as a connected structure of concepts rather than as a toolkit of assorted practices.

Contents include:

• Reflective writing
  
• Writing to learn
  
• Constructing student knowledge
  
• Selected methods for using collaborative groups
  
• Changing students epistemologies
  
• Training students to solve problems
  
• Using technology to aid your teaching