Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) Series: Performing CPR in a General Education Chemistry Course Improves Critical Thinking, Puzzling, and Reasoning Skills
Wednesday, February 18, 11:45-1:15 - Buntrock 142
Greg Muth, Chemistry and 2008-09 CILA Associate
All teachers are interested in how to help their students learn how to think critically in their disciplines. Most of us would like learning these skills to begin in the first course. Yet, in an introductory course, the need to simultaneously master new content along with disciplinary-based critical thinking skills may be difficult for many students. Greg's scholarship of teaching and learning project began with his observation that "the gradual acquisition of this broad chemical knowledge base and its maturation into skills that manifest in the ability to solve complex problems is unlikely to occur in a one-semester general education chemistry course."
