Seminar & Lecture Series
- Deep Look
- Kuffler Lectures
- Heiligenberg Lectures
- The Science of Teaching
The goal of these seminars and conversations on teaching is to engage in discussions about evidence-based education methods and teaching practices in our own division and in other departments, divisions, and institutions. Seminars will feature invited speakers, and conversations on teaching will be led by colleagues within the School of Biological Sciences. The times and days of the events will vary.
Dr. Jeremy Hsu
Chapman University
Location: 1205 Natural Sciences Building Auditorium
10 - 11am
Q and A until 11:30am
Hosted by: Claire Meaders (cmeaders@ucsd.edu)
Learning objectives, quizzes, and exams are common across STEM courses. However, there has been little work done examining how students think about learning objectives and how the wording of such learning objectives may influence students’ attitudes, motivation, and learning in class. Similarly, quizzes and exams are ubiquitous in STEM courses, but there has also been a paucity of past work investigating how the framing of such questions may impact students’ reading and processing of the question as well as their attitudes. In this talk, we will explore how students conceptualize learning objectives and discuss ways instructors can use learning objectives to support student learning. We will then explore how different wordings of the same learning objectives and exam questions can play major roles in influencing students’ attitudes and motivations and examine how instructors can apply these findings to their classes.
Dr. Jeremy HsuFlyerDr. Eduardo Gonzalez and Dr. Mike Wilton
University of California – Santa Barbara
Location: 3201 Tata Hall, Kavli Auditorium
10 - 11am
Q and A until 11:30am
Hosted by: Katie Petrie (kpetrie@ucsd.edu)
Mentorship is an effective strategy to promote postsecondary STEM student academic success and retention. However, as undergraduate STEM enrollment continues to increase, faculty-student mentorship at large, public universities is not a scalable approach. Here we describe the positive impacts of near-peer mentorship approaches which leverage upper-division biology students to provide support to first- and second-year majors at the University of California.
Dr. Eduardo Gonzalez and Dr. Mike Wilton FlyerDr. Carl Wieman
Nobel Prize Laureate, Physics (2001)
Stanford University
Location: 3201 Tata Hall, Kavli Auditorium or Zoom
Zoom Meeting ID: 951 7535 7612
10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Dr. Carl Wieman FlyerKeefe Reuther, Melinda Owens, Justin Meyer
Location: Muir Biology Building, Room 1138
9:30 AM - 10:50 AM
Melinda Owens and Justin Meyer will share approaches and perspectives from flipping their courses in fall 2023. Keefe Reuther will guide you through step by step workflow to quickly modify and generate assessment questions that can easily be uploaded to Canvas.
Dr. Carl Wieman Flyer