Workshops

I can provide a variety of pedagogical workshops for faculty in how to use evidence-based teaching practices.  My particular areas of expertise are:

  • Setting learning goals and objectives
  • Using clickers and peer instruction
  • Engaging students in active learning classrooms

See also my professional talks

Commonly Offered Workshops

These workshops are extremely well-developed and have been offered dozens of times.  Many materials here.

  1. Getting Around Student Pushback and Passiveness in Active Learning Classrooms
  2. Are Clickers Right for You?
  3. Writing Great Clicker Questions
  4. Facilitating Clicker Questions Effectively
  5. Teaching Faculty about Effective Clicker Use
  6. Writing Learning Goals to Drive Instruction and Assessment.
  7. Techniques for Monitoring Understanding and Evaluating Students.
  8. Make Clickers Work for You:  4-8 hour workshop series
  9. Learning Goals and Assessment:  4-8 hour workshop series

Other Workshops

These workshops are well developed, but less commonly offered.

  1. The Art & Science of Teaching:  Some ideas from (physics) education research
  2. Aligning Learning Goals and Assessments
  3. What Every Teacher Should Know About Cognitive Research.
  4. Using PhET in the Classroom

Popular talks

I am also available to provide standard colloquium-style talks, mostly about careers and education research.  You can see all my past talks in my CV.

  1. The Science Education Initiative: An Experiment in Scaling up Educational Improvements in a Research University
  2. The Quasi-Linear Dynamics of a Career in Science Education
  3. A scholarly approach to science education: A research-validated approach to transforming junior E&M
  4. Getting the Word Out: Effective Communication of the Results of Our Work in Physics Education Research
  5. Speaking of Physics: The Art of Science Communication