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Promoting Active Learning in the Life Science Classroom (Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences)

New York Academy of Sciences, 1994

This work attempts to respond to a well-acknowledged flaw in current science education - over-reliance on the conventional lecture-oriented curriculum - by offering descriptions of practical techniques to elicit active student participation in learning rather than passive ingestion of facts. The aim of these papers is to provide faculty members who teach physiology at both the undergraduate and graduate levels with methods that can be used in ...

Active Learning in Secondary and College Science Classrooms: A Working Model for Helping the Learner To Learn
Joel Michael, Harold I. Modell

Lawrence Erlbaum, 2003

The working model for "helping the learner to learn" presented in this book is relevant to any teaching context, but the focus here is on teaching in secondary and college science classrooms. Specifically, the goals of the text are to: *help secondary- and college-level science faculty examine and redefine their roles in the classroom; *define for science teachers a framework for thinking about active learning and the creation of an ...