Topic Area: DEI
Presented by: Melanie Cooper, Cori Fata-Hartley
Abstract:
Over the last 7 years, the STEM Teaching and Learning Fellowship at MSU has provided 4 cohorts of faculty with exposure to Three-Dimensional Learning (3DL), a new framework for teaching and learning, along with regular meetings to develop assessments and instructional materials, discuss education research, and become part of a growing interdisciplinary community of faculty committed to improving STEM education. While these activities were intended to lay a foundation, instructors’ personal attitudes, priorities, and behaviors in the context of their classes clearly play an important role in determining their students’ potential to benefit from research-based instructional strategies. In this panel discussion, alumni from the Fellowship will share personal stories as they describe their work to efficiently build assessments and instruction around the three dimensions of 3DL: Scientific Practices, Disciplinary Core Ideas, and Crosscutting Concepts. Supports and barriers to implementing 3DL will be considered, along with implications for future cohorts and specific recommendations for successful course transformation.