Over the past two years, through an NSF RCN UBE grant, the ASBMB has held regional workshops for faculty members and science educators from around the country that focused on identifying: 1) core principles of biochemistry and molecular biology, 2) essential concepts and underlying theories from physics, chemistry, and mathematics, and 3) foundational skills that undergraduate majors in biochem...

Faculty development of inclusive teaching practices has become more common in response to significant differences in STEM student retention between underrepresented minorities in the USA and students from other ethnic groups. Approaches to solve this have shifted from focusing on student deficits to changing campus culture, including the mindsets of instructors who teach STEM courses. In this a...

BACKGROUND For an increasingly busy and geographically dispersed faculty, the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom, developed a range of Web-based faculty development modules, based on Kolb's experiential learning cycle, to complement the faculty's face-to-face workshops. OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to assess users' views and perceptions of the ef...

The objective of this article is to report the development, implementation, and early results of a non-graded normative dental student clinical performance assessment system based on our competencies documents. The normative system (student performance is compared to evidence-based clinical standards) was used and evaluated during the 2002-03 academic year and is now gradually replacing the tra...

This mini-workshop will follow a “train-thetrainer” model. Experts will provide guidance and resources for college computing faculty who wish to organize workshops for high school computer science teachers. These workshops will enable the teachers to attract more and diverse students to their computer science classes, which will add to the college-bound population of students prepared for and i...

Abstract Background Workshops are the most common models to enhance knowledge and skills in a specific subject area with an intent explore, solve problem and/or innovate new things. The important aspect of workshop is transfer safe learning environment as faculty development activity (FDA). At International Medical University (IMU), Malaysia’s first private medical university which was establis...

new faculty and instructors exploring the pedagogy of teaching and looking for good practical advice in teaching; any faculty member or instructor eager to explore any of the topics further; mentors of new faculty or graduate teaching assistants (these modules are a great way to provide an easily accessible resource that can be shared and discussed); faculty and instructors teaching courses on ...

new faculty and instructors exploring the pedagogy of teaching and looking for good practical advice in teaching; any faculty member or instructor eager to explore any of the topics further; mentors of new faculty or graduate teaching assistants (these modules are a great way to provide an easily accessible resource that can be shared and discussed); faculty and instructors teaching courses on ...

new faculty and instructors exploring the pedagogy of teaching and looking for good practical advice in teaching; any faculty member or instructor eager to explore any of the topics further; mentors of new faculty or graduate teaching assistants (these modules are a great way to provide an easily accessible resource that can be shared and discussed); faculty and instructors teaching courses on ...

The Engineering Teaching Development Project (ETDP), a pilot program started by the student chapter of ASEE at the University of Michigan, is a multi-component program designed to improve the long-term teaching skills of graduate student instructors (GSIs) in the College of Engineering. The first component of the ETDP is college-wide pedagogical workshop series. These workshops are conducted by...