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Enhancing Learning Using 3D Printing: An Alternative to Traditional Student Project Methods
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McGahern, Patricia; Bosch, Frances; Poli, DorothyBelle – American Biology Teacher, 2015
Student engagement during the development of a three-dimensional visual aid or teaching model can vary for a number of reasons. Some students report that they are not "creative" or "good at art," often as an excuse to justify less professional outcomes. Student engagement can be low when using traditional methods to produce a…
Descriptors: Student Projects, Teaching Models, Class Activities, Printing
Embracing the Village and Tribe: Critical Thinking for Social Workers from an African-Centered Approach
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Dyson, Yarneccia D.; Brice, Tanya Smith – Journal of Social Work Education, 2016
The social work department at a small historically Black college implemented an African-centered approach to the course Critical Thinking for Social Workers for freshmen students who declared social work as their major. We firmly believe that knowing and understanding the history and legacy of people of African descent is extremely important in…
Descriptors: Critical Thinking, Social Work, Black Colleges, College Freshmen
Visceral Pedagogies: Pornography, Affect, and Safety in the University Classroom
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Paasonen, Susanna – Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies, 2016
This article addresses the pedagogical choices and the visceral reverberations involved in teaching porn in the university classroom. The author discusses different aims and goals for teaching pornography, as well as the some key pedagogical considerations and options involved in this, drawing on her own experiences teaching porn in Finnish gender…
Descriptors: Pornography, Class Activities, Controversial Issues (Course Content), College Programs
The Flipped Classroom Teaching Model and Its Use for Information Literacy Instruction
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Arnold-Garza, Sara – Communications in Information Literacy, 2014
The flipped classroom, a teaching method that delivers lecture content to students at home through electronic means and uses class time for practical application activities, may be useful for information literacy instruction. This article describes many of the characteristics of the flipped classroom teaching model, illustrated with examples from…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Teaching Methods, Information Literacy, Library Instruction
Comparing Top-Down with Bottom-Up Approaches: Teaching Data Modeling
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Kung, Hsiang-Jui; Kung, LeeAnn; Gardiner, Adrian – Information Systems Education Journal, 2013
Conceptual database design is a difficult task for novice database designers, such as students, and is also therefore particularly challenging for database educators to teach. In the teaching of database design, two general approaches are frequently emphasized: top-down and bottom-up. In this paper, we present an empirical comparison of students'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Database Design, Intermode Differences, Instructional Effectiveness
Results of a Practicum Offering Teaching-Focused Graduate Student Professional Development
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Richards-Babb, Michelle; Penn, John H.; Withers, Michelle – Journal of Chemical Education, 2014
Providing chemistry graduate students with opportunities to learn about evidence-based teaching and to practice teaching skills in a mentored environment is crucial to their professional development. Herein is described the model for a graduate-level teaching practicum course specifically focused on the chemistry discipline. This course addressed…
Descriptors: Practicums, Science Education, Graduate Students, Professional Development