Tag Archives: CWSEI
Clicker questions should be integrated, not jammed in later
The CWSEI group at UBC gets together every week to discuss a journal article. This week, it was a new article by Melissa Dancy and Charles Henderson “Pedagogical practices and instructional change of physics faculty,” Am. J. Phys. 78 (2010). … Continue reading
Tagged clickers, CWSEI, think-pair-share
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Using clickers to engage your audience
Today, I had the pleasure of demonstrating clickers to a group of journalists visiting UBC. They’d heard of the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative that I’m part of, and wanted to “see clickers”. The message I gave them is the … Continue reading
Tagged clickers, CWSEI
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First day of learner-centred instruction
In my role in the Carl Wieman Science Education Initiative (CWSEI) at UBC, I don’t do the actual teaching myself. I train the trainers and then monitor how they’re doing. And I ask myself, you can talk the talk but … Continue reading
