Posts by gsi

Teaching to Different Modes of Learning

by Alexander Kauffman, Integrative Biology As the semester progressed, a larger and more general issue became clear to me: different students learn in different ways. This idea applies not just to students with learning disabilities, but to all students...Presenting the same information in different ways...allows for better teaching...[and] allows students with diverse learning abilities to access and understand what you are trying to teach.

An Example of the Use of Frameworks in Skills-Based Learning

by Terry O'Brien, Integrative Biology In my experience, no matter how much students practice...skills, few are able to develop a clear conceptual matrix for those skills without significant guidance from the instructor. A direct approach to this problem means that the instructor first provides students with the scaffolding of concepts for each skill.