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The conference on Transforming Institutions: 21st Century Undergraduate STEM Education brings together change leaders from academia, government, and industry to explore research-based practices, strategies and challenges for institutional transformation, especially as related to STEM education.
Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceIMPACT is Purdue effort that aims to provide faculty development and support to redesign courses to be more student-centered, including the articulation of learning objectives, appropriate design of course assessments, and the effective use of instructional technologies and engaged pedagogies.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership CommitmentThe Summer Institutes on Scientific Teaching work to transform STEM education through evidence-based practice. At regional Summer Institutes, college and university faculty, instructional staff, and future faculty develop teaching skills at multi-day workshops. Workshop topics focus on current…
Pedagogy | Educational Practices | Faculty Professional Development | ScaffoldingThe "Being Human in STEM” project started as a class in fall 2016, adopting the same format as a course from Amherst College by Dr. Sheila Jaswal. The project will help establish a dialogue between STEM students and faculty, while working together to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of…
Pedagogy | Access | Scaffolding | Faculty Professional DevelopmentYale’s Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL) promotes equitable and engaged teaching throughout the University, and supports students across the curriculum as they take ownership of their learning. As part of the CTL’s mission, it encourages innovation and enhancement in teaching and learning…
Pedagogy | Access | Educational Practices | Scaffolding | Faculty Professional Development | TechnologyUVA's Nucleus program is designed to help faculty improve STEM education in large enrollment, introductory-level courses using research-based pedagogies and assessment—and to help faculty and departments sustain improvements.
Scaffolding | Faculty Professional DevelopmentThe Authentic Learning Initiative is designed to engage faculty conversations around the topic of authentic learning and assessment. By creating learning environments using authentic contexts that ensure assessment truly measures whether students can use their knowledge effectively and…
Scaffolding | Faculty Professional DevelopmentThe University of Pennsylvania is supporting faculty in making use of Structured, Active, In-class Learning (SAIL) in their teaching. SAIL classes begin with the related premises that students benefit from learning by doing and that class time should be used to help students learn to work with…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership CommitmentThe University of Wisconsin-Madison's (UW-Madison) Delta Program in Research, Teaching, and Learning promotes professional development in teaching for graduate students and post-docs so that they can successfully implement and advance effective teaching practices for diverse student audiences as…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Educational Practices | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceUKanTeach supports effective STEM learning, effective communication about STEM, supports service learning, while exploring secondary mathematics and science teaching as an option at graduation. If you wish to be a better science communicator or teach secondary (grades 6-12) math or science, then…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence