Professor Heideman
How Students Learn
My goal for this site is to provide
a steadily
expanding set of readings and resources that my
students, other students,
and teachers can use to help improve student learning.
This site includes selected materials and updates used
with my classes from 2009-2012 of prospective teachers
and with current
teachers in Summer 2010 with support from a Howard
Hughes Medical Institute
grant through the Undergraduate Biological Sciences
Education Program to
the College of William and Mary. Support for this
course and the materials
has also come from the National Science Foundation, the
US Department of
Education, and the Jessie Ball DuPont Fund.
BIO 455
Materials (in development!)
- Brief course
description
- Useful
readings and where to find them
- Instructions on making and using minute sketches and
folded
lists (Short
version) (Longer
version
on designing minute sketches)
- Guidelines
for
teachers on ways to use minute sketches and
folded lists in teaching
- Use of a minute sketch to recognize and correct a 'surface
content
with deep content misconception'. In
this case my error--an
error that I noticed and corrected because I was
trying to design a minute
sketch for the concept). The error was in my
conception of the flow
of charge through a cell or a wire.
- Instructions
for 'sketch-mapping'
(a modification of mind maps & concept maps using
sketches)
- Minute
sketches and folded lists on the topic of learning
and memory (all in
one file). These accompanied course readings
and lectures on learning
and memory. These minute sketches and folded
lists are not intended
to stand alone! I have a funded grant in
progress to develop a free
set of readings for this project.
- Sample minute sketches and folded lists in mathematics,
introductory ecology, introductory
molecular
cell biology, and other subjects and topics.
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Last
updated 10/01/2012
College of William
and Mary, Department of Biology
pdheid@wm.edu
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