Our Mission:
To support faculty, graduate teaching assistants, and undergraduate learning assistants in actively engaging students in large, undergraduate courses.
We aim to make active and collaborative learning the default method of instruction in highly enrolled gateway courses and to develop departmental cultures that value evidence-based teaching practices.
To support that goal, we help to develop the tools needed to emphasize group work, active engagement, and community building in these courses to increase student success.
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Our Research:
Gateway-2-STEM centers on activities designed and implemented by course-communities of transformation that are designed to change the way targeted courses are taught with the long term goal of diffusing the change more broadly across the institution.
The project change model combines a bottom-up, or grassroots, approach through individual faculty operating within STEM programs with top-down (university administrative) support. Through diffusion we hope to reach beyond the courses that are specifically targeted in the implementation effort and make broad change to the STEM pedagogical approaches used, particularly in large gateway courses.
Project Model and Additonal Research:
Project Model:
Gateway-2-STEM centers on activities designed and implemented by course-communities of transformation that are designed to change the way targeted courses are taught with the long term goal of diffusing the change more broadly across the institution.
Posters & Presentations
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Publications
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