Date: Thu 28-Sep-2017
Time: 4:00-5:00pm
Location: PSC 1136
Speaker: Dr. Melissa Hayes-Gehrke (UMD)
Title: Lessons from the Carl Wieman Education Specialist Workshop
Nobel laureate Carl Wieman's Education Specialist Workshop guided participants through six days of hands-on education research discussion, activity development, and expert feedback. In this talk, I share how the workshop's emphasis on developing expert-like thinking transformed my motivation for course design and activities. Effective course design and learning goals form an intricate web with student motivation and prior knowledge, pre-class learning, and in-class activities so that what each student ultimately takes away from a course is different and unique.
