This course is developed to improve the effectiveness of laboratory classes in higher education. It aims to support teachers to improve their teaching skills for active learning in university science laboratory courses. It will show you how laboratory sessions can differ with respect to their aim and expected learning outcomes, how to engage students for learning and how to cope with their different levels of pre-knowledge and experience and probe their understanding. Last but not least it will show how you could assess students in laboratory courses.
Teaching in University Science Laboratories (Developing Best Practice)
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Teaching in University Science Laboratories (Developing Best Practice)
Instructors: Natasa Brouwer
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Identify the purposes of implementing laboratory classes in higher education.
Provide strategies on how to increase student engagement.
Develop effective questions to probe student understanding of laboratory practice.
Create a rubric for assessing a student performing a lab activity and subsequent reports.
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Reviewed on Nov 27, 2020
An amazing way of learning and sharing ideas with your teaching peers. I wish you did a more extensive course on the topic.
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Reviewed on May 5, 2020
this course very much useful for me as a laboratory teacher and designing a rubric will help me to get the students outcome
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Reviewed on Sep 25, 2019
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