Community of Practice: Innovative Teaching Techniques and Tools

This faculty learning community seeks to examine literature-informed best practices in digital assessment techniques, thereby promoting teaching excellence and student success.

For this session, members of our CoP, Steve McNeil and Tamara Freeman, will share their Pedagogical Philosophy for Chemistry courses that are now active-learning based, with opportunities for interactive small-group peer discussion baked into learning activities (using guided inquiry and flipped class models) and assessment (using two-stage collaborative exams). Steve McNeil will also share with us preliminary research data that aligns with emerging scholarship suggesting that peer discussion in active learning not only supports cognitive learning objectives but also helps enormously with affective factors such as a sense of identity and belonging, which is probably why it disproportionally elevates success among students from historically marginalized groups.

Email barbara.komlos@ubc.ca to be added to the CoP Teams Channel.