Teaching and Learning Seminar                              Spring 2010

General Reference Materials

Specific reading assignments are listed on the Assignments web page.
All CBE-LSE articles and NRC reports are available online (see below).

Textbook

Scientific Teaching, Handelsman, J., Miller, S., and Pfund, C., Freeman/Roberts, 2007

Purchase at the CU Bookstore or online. Copy on reserve in B345.

Reference book

Transformations: Approaches to College Science Teaching, Allen, D. and Tanner, K., Freeman, 2009.

A useful compilation of the Tanner and Allen “Teaching Tips” articles described below, from

2002-2009. Copy on reserve in B345.

Free Online Journals, Mailing Lists, Websites

CBE-Life Sciences Education (CBE-LSE) http://www.lifescied.org

The premier journal for amateur educator-professional scientists like us (BW’s unprejudiced

opinion).

Tanner and Allen Teaching Tips Series in CBE-LSE

Approaches to Teaching and Learning, by Kimberly Tanner and Deborah Allen and occasional

collaborators, is a regular feature of the journal, appearing in most issues. These brief articles

provide excellent and accessible summaries of various teaching issues at the college level, with

bridges to the relevant educational literature. Links on Assignments page are listed as T&A#.

Tomorrow’s Professor mailing list

https://mailman.stanford.edu/mailman/listinfo/tomorrows-professor

A bi-weekly mailing of sometimes excellent short pieces of practical educational interest.

Links on Assignments page are listed as TP#.

Carnegie Perspectives CarnegiePresident@carnegiefoundation.org

Type “subscribe” in the subject line. Often interesting brief essays on undergraduate

education from Carnegie President Lee Schulman and others.

NASIUEB Web Site http://www.academiessummerinstitute.org

National Academies Summer Institute for Undergraduate Education in Biology. Includes material from

five previous sessions, including presentations, teachable units, references, etc. Use login: wwood,

password: Darwin to get to the Intranet Portal, where all the good stuff is. (Note: this website doesn’t

work right with the Mac Safari browser; use Firefox or some other one.)

On Reserve Shelf
The reserve shelf will be in my outer office, open during the day (MCDB 345), just to your left

as you come in the door.   Please read there and do not remove materials from the room, except briefly

for copying if you wish. All NRC reports can be read online at http://www.nap.edu/. I have copies

of several other related reports not on reserve (*) - see me if you'd like to borrow one.

CBE-Life Sciences Education (CBE-LSE), Highlights Issues, Dec. 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008.

NRC (1996). National Science Education Standards. National Academy Press.

* NRC (1997). Science Teaching Reconsidered: A Handbook. National
Academy Press.

* NRC (2000). Inquiry and the National Science Education Standards: A Guide for

Teaching and Learning. National Academy Press.

* Glenn, J. (2000). Before It's Too Late: a Report to the Nation from The National
Commission of Mathematics and Science Teaching for the 21st Century.
U. S. Department of Education: 48.

NRC (1999). How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School. National

Academy Press.

NRC (2000). How People Learn: Bridging Research and Practice. National

Academy Press.

NRC (2002). Learning and Understanding: Improving Advanced Study of Mathematics
and Science in U.S. High Schools. National Academy Press.

NRC (2003) Bio2010: Transforming Undergraduate Education for Future Research

Biologists. National Academy Press.

Mazur, E. (1997) Peer Instruction; A User’s Manual. Prentice-Hall.

Novak, G. et al., Just-in-Time Teaching http://134.68.135.1/jitt/

(This list may be added to as the course progresses)