Teaching and diversity

Preparing Those Who will Become Faculty

Andrea Widener wonders on the HHMI bulletin Is there Room for Teaching and Research in a Postdoc Experience.

The Johns Hopkins Institute for Basic Medical Sciences launches a pilot program for postdocs who want to learn to teach.

Extensive information at the Preparing Future Faculty Program including:

Some teaching training programs I have heard of:

FIRST IV
The Teaching Fellow Postdocs at University of Colorado Boulder (I can't find the link but I know they exist!)
SABER: Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research
Teaching Postdoc Program at the University of Arizona
SEPAL (Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory) at SFSU

(if you know more, do not hesistate to leave a link on the comments)

Talking

David Bohm 1996; On Dialogue. - and related essays around it

D. Stone, B. Patton, S. Heen 1999; Difficult Conversations. How to Discuss What Matters Most.

K. Patterson, J. Grenny, R. McMillan, A. Switzler 2002; Crucial Conversations. Tools for Talking when Stakes are High.

Leaving or Staying: More than Flipping a Coin

Elaine Seymour and Nancy Hewitt 1997; Talking about leaving. Why Undergraduates Leave the Sciences.

Vincent Tinto 1987; Leaving College. Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition.

various authors, 2003; Improving Completion Rates Among Disadvantaged Students.

David Moxley, Anwar Najor-Durack and Cecille Dumbrigue 2001; Keeping Students in Higher Education. Successful Practices and Strategies for Retention.

Publications by the European Access Network (EAN)

More active learning

Freeman et al, 2011; Increased course structure improves performance in introductory biology

Prince 2004; Does active learning work? A review of the research

Walker et al. 2008; A delicate balance: integrating active learning into a large lecture course