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How to use High Structure Course Design to Improve Student Engagement and Success in Biology Courses
Tuesday, June 11 at 3:00 PM ET
Join us to explore how high structure course design can be used to help increase engagement and improve student outcomes. High structure course design involves scaffolding students through the learning process via pre-class content acquisition and formative assessment, in-class active learning and practice, after-class review and assessment, and frequent summative assessment. Justin Shaffer excels in helping instructors enhance student outcomes by tailoring evidence-based teaching strategies and STEM education research findings to their unique situations with regards to course design, teaching style, and assessment needs. Take this opportunity to learn more about Justin's research and the results he has seen since implementing high structure course design throughout the biological sciences.
Speakers
Justin Shaffer
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and a Teaching Professor in Chemical and Biological Engineering and in Quantitative Biosciences and Engineering, the Colorado School of Mines
Justin Shaffer, PhD, is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies and a Teaching Professor at the Colorado School of Mines. Dr. Shaffer is the author of the forthcoming book High Structure Course Design for STEM which gives practical hands-on advice for creating STEM courses that engage students in and out of the classroom and improve student outcomes which is based on his own classroom instruction of 8500+ students in a variety of STEM disciplines and his educational research program on the efficacy of high structure courses. Dr. Shaffer is the founder of Recombinant Education where he provides faculty professional development on course and curriculum design, evidence-based teaching practices, and discipline-based education research. Dr. Shaffer has written op-eds for Inside Higher Ed and has been featured on several podcasts including Teaching in Higher Ed.