Mind the Gap: Nurturing Our Students Toward Expertise (Resources from Kimberly Tanner's presentations)

We had a great meeting over the last couple of days with Dr. Kimberly Tanner leading us through three interesting and invigorating workshops: Mind the Gap - Nurturing Our Students Toward Expertise. Her slideshows, handouts and articles are linked below. One additional article that is worth reading for those of us interested in implementing active learning in our classrooms is "What if Students Revolt?" and is well worth reading especially after receiving end of term student evaluations (which a number of us are doing now!). In addition, CBE-LSE has collected Dr Tanner's  collection of essays on approaches to biology teaching and learning here.

I - Cultural Competency in the Undergraduate Classroom: Cross-Disciplinary Tools, Insights and Strategies to Promote Student Success

slideshow

handout

further reading

• Chamany Allen and Tanner 2008 Making biology learning relevant. CBE-LSE 7: 267-78
• Tanner 2014 Structure matters. CBE-LSE 12: 1-10
• Tanner and Allen 2007 Cultural competence. CBE-LSE 6: 251-8

II - Order Matters: Becoming Metacognitive about Teaching Choices

slideshow

handouts

• Overview of the 5E learning cycle model
• Changes suggested by the 5E model

further reading

• Schinske and Tanner 2014 Teaching more by grading less. CBE-LSE 13: 159-166
• Tanner 2010 Order matters. CBE-LSE 9: 159-164
• Tanner 2012 Promoting student metacognition. CBE-LSE 11: 113-120

III - AIBA Keynote Address: Beyond Assessing Knowledge – Card Sorting, Superheroes, and Moving Towards Measuring (Biological) Expertise among Undergraduates

slideshow

further reading

• Chi, Feltovish and Glaser 1981 Categorization and representation of physics problems by experts and novices. Cognitive Sci 5(2): 121-152
• Smith et al 2013 Development of the biology card sorting task. CBE-LSE 12: 628-644