{"id":1817,"date":"2016-03-15T23:53:20","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydney.edu.au\/education-portfolio\/ei\/teaching@sydney\/?p=1817"},"modified":"2016-08-01T11:26:47","modified_gmt":"2016-08-01T01:26:47","slug":"teach-like-nobel-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/teach-like-nobel-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"Teach like a Nobel Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Sydney Ideas lecture on 11 March,\u00a0Nobel Laureate <a href=\"https:\/\/physics.stanford.edu\/people\/faculty\/carl-wieman\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/physics.stanford.edu\/people\/faculty\/carl-wieman\">Professor Carl Wieman<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwsei.ubc.ca\/about\/sarah_bio.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.cwsei.ubc.ca\/about\/sarah_bio.html\">Dr Sarah Gilbert<\/a> facilitated a special workshop for students and teachers on teaching challenges and strategies in science education. The wide ranging discussion covered topics relevant to effective teaching in all\u00a0discliplines,\u00a0including motivation, engagement, active learning and assessment. Building on the rich collection of research-informed and practical tips and resources from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwsei.ubc.ca\/SEI_research\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.cwsei.ubc.ca\/SEI_research\/index.html\">Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative<\/a>, key ideas from the workshop included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/332\/6031\/862.full?ijkey=GMW4zTHNMM1Tc&amp;keytype=ref&amp;siteid=sci\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/science.sciencemag.org\/content\/332\/6031\/862.full?ijkey=GMW4zTHNMM1Tc&amp;keytype=ref&amp;siteid=sci\">Evidence<\/a> that active learning approaches dramatically improve student learning and are\u00a0more enjoyable for both students and teachers,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.changemag.org\/Archives\/Back%20Issues\/2015\/January-February%202015\/better-way-full.html\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.changemag.org\/Archives\/Back%20Issues\/2015\/January-February%202015\/better-way-full.html\">Ways<\/a> to evaluate the effectiveness of undergraduate lectures and<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwsei.ubc.ca\/resources\/files\/Two-stage_Exams.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.cwsei.ubc.ca\/resources\/files\/Two-stage_Exams.pdf\">Increasing<\/a> the effectiveness of mid-semester exams and quizzes in promoting learning.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>To self-evaluate the extent of your own use of research-based teaching practices, why not complete the anonymous rubric provided by the Initiative and used by lecturers across the\u00a0world?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cwsei.ubc.ca\/resources\/TeachingPracticesInventory.htm\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.cwsei.ubc.ca\/resources\/TeachingPracticesInventory.htm\">Teaching practices inventory<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Links to a recording and the slides of the workshop are available on the Educational Innovation group on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yammer.com\/sydney.edu.au\/#\/Threads\/show?threadId=672358689\" target=\"_blank\" data-cke-saved-href=\"https:\/\/www.yammer.com\/sydney.edu.au\/#\/Threads\/show?threadId=672358689\">Yammer<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the Sydney Ideas lecture on 11 March,\u00a0Nobel Laureate Professor Carl Wieman\u00a0and Dr Sarah Gilbert facilitated a special workshop for students and teachers on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1819,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"coauthors":[489],"class_list":["post-1817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-item","post-even"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1820,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1817\/revisions\/1820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1819"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1817"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/educational-innovation.sydney.edu.au\/teaching@sydney\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}