Lee Cannon-Brown
For my capstone, I gave a presentation on best practices for consulting with teachers on their teaching. I focused on the art of giving a “video consultation,” which involves talking with a teacher about a video recording of their class. I first outlined several goals a consultation might work toward, from expanding the teacher’s toolkit, to affirming their existing practice, to interpreting the needs of their students. I then argued that the best way to achieve these goals is to bring the teacher’s attention to classroom dynamics or behaviors that she might not have noticed, and to discuss their significance.
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Tommy George
This capstone project includes work in the following areas: 1) training and community-building for TFs in SEAS; 2) peer observation of other STEM pedagogy courses (CCB & MCB); 3) video consultations with current TFs; and 4) planning a new graduate course in electrochemical engineering, including a final project. A unifying theme of this work is that teaching has the potential to be the basis of community building in a department or cohort, and that discussing teaching among a community of TFs and PFs can be a helpful component of a reflective teaching practice, in which the reflection isn’t just a solo endeavor.
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Dave Song
As a Bok Pedagogy Fellow in STEM, I served as a teaching consultant to TFs and departments in various STEM disciplines. In addition to discussing pedagogy through video consultations, I designed and facilitated a workshop on high-leverage strategies for teaching equitable sections that was delivered to the teaching staff in my home department (CCB). The workshop used Poll Everywhere for real-time feedback, employed ChatGPT to summarize key themes from open-ended responses, and provided deliberate lesson planning through the “chessboard of teaching strategies.” It also covered tangible in-class active learning strategies aimed to enhance the effectiveness and inclusivity of STEM education.
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