Teaching and diversity: 2012

DNA Replication and Repair Images

This collection of images by prof. Allen Gathman is making my life much easier these days and I hope they can help some other people too.

(sorry for the bias; I guess I can’t help being a molecular geneticist:)

The Identity of Science Education

The secret identity of a biology textbook: straight and naturally sexed by Jesse Bazzul and Heather Sykes (which I haven’t had access to yet)

and two forum responses to it:

The Secret Identity of Science Education: masculine and politically conservative? by Jay Lemke

Queer (v.) queer (v.): biology as curriculum, pedagogy, and being albeit queer (v.) by Francis F. Broadway

An Argument for Training Teachers to Interrupt Heteronormativity in Life Science by M. H. Hoelscher from the STEM Education Center, University of Minnesota

Social Issues in and for Biology Teaching

Issue-Oriented Science: Using Socioscientific Issues to Engage Biology Students by Laura Lenz and Maia K. Willcox The American Biology Teacher 74(8):551-556. 2012 doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/abt.2012.74.8.4

The SENCER Model Series

The SENCER models are curricular approaches to improving science learning and supporting engagement with complex issues. Through the "lens" of a matter or set of matters of public consequence, a SENCER model course or program teaches science that is both challenging and rigorous. The SENCER approach requires students to engage in serious scientific reasoning, inquiry, observation, and measurement. SENCER courses and programs connect scientific knowledge to public decision-making, policy development, and the effective "work" of citizenship. SENCER approaches encourage students to engage in research, to produce knowledge, to develop answers, as well as to appreciate the uncertainty and provisionality of the knowledge and answers produced.

Thinking in the Science Classroom

Resources for students and teachers in the Cognitive Acceleration website and the Free Continuing Support website from John Crossland.

Teaching Materials

modENCODE educational supplement offers useful materials to teach about Drosophila and C.elegans.

Celebrating the achievements of women in science, technology, engineering and maths

Formative Assessment

Inside the Black Box: Raising Standards Through Classroom Assessment By Paul Black and Dylan Wiliam

A commentary on the paper in this video from a PhD candidate in educational psychology with Michigan State University.

Discovery-Based Science Education

I am not sure if I’ve put this reference before, but it doesn’t hurt repeating in any case. Dr. Banerjee has a very interesting way of approaching science education in UCLA:

Discovery-Based Science Education: Functional Genomic Dissection in Drosophila by Undergraduate Researchers, PLOS Biology 2005 February; 3(2): e59

Assessment in Science Courses

The CURE survey (classroom undergraduate research experiences) designed for disciplinary courses.

The RISC survey (research on the integrated science curriculum) is a variation of the CURE survey pinned towards interdisciplinary or integrated courses.

21st Century Curricula for 21st Century Students

“Why Do We Have to Learn This Stuff?”—A New Genetics for 21st Century Students by Rosemary J. Redfieldin PLOS Biology

Stereotypes, Women and Science

How Stereotypes Can Drive Women To Quit Science by Shankar Vedantam in NPR

Motivating Scientists

Faces of Biology Photo Contest

Science humor/ design T-shirt contest (sorry, bad language on the link)

Resource

Teaching resource from HHMI: Biointeractive

POD

Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

Women in Science

Tons of publications about women in the sciences at the Asociación de Mujeres Investigadoras y Tecnólogas (AMIT)

Anti-Oppression Resources

A compilation by Organizing for Power, Organizing for Change

Anti-Oppression Principles and Practices
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, by PeggyMcIntosh
A Community Builders Toolkit: Tools for Creating Healthy, Productive Interracial/Multicultural Communities, 40 pages
Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture, by Tema Okun
Tools for White Guys who are Working for Social Change… and Other People Socialized in a Society Based on Domination, by Chris Crass
The Role of White People in Ending Racism
White Protesters, Black Cops: A Reality Check from Training for Change, by Barbara Smith
Healing from the Effects of Internalized Oppression, from the Community Tool Box
To Equalize Power Among Us – tips for keeping your privilege in check from Tools for Change
Creating Democratic Culture, from Tools for Change
Concepts for Creating Justice: Looking at Power Relationally, from Tools for Change
Challenging Oppressive Moments
Domination Techniques: What they are and how to combat them

Equal Faculty Retention, but Underrepresented

What the Doctors Ordered, by Beryl Lieff Benderly Science Careers,
April 6th 2012

Survival Analysis of Faculty Retention in Science and Engineering, by
Deborah Kaminski and Cheryl Geisler Science 335, 864 (2012)

Tools for Teaching Science

Interesting supporting materials for the teaching of science in middle and high school at carolina.com

A practical toolkit and plenty other resources prepared by the UKRC, the UK's lead organisation for the provision of advice, services and policy consultation to build gender equality and diversity in science, engineering, technology and the built environment (SET).

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