How to Break Through Students' Misconceptions of Science
Location
Online
Date & Time
March 1, 2017, 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Description
**Registration for this workshop will be open from 11AM Central Time on February 6 through February 20. This workshop has a cap of 40 students.**
In this two-part workshop, participants will investigate misconceptions regarding the nature of science broadly and specific concepts within their discipline in order to explicitly address these in their instruction. Specifically, participants will consider their own and students’ misconceptions of science as well as the role of misconceptions in the learning process through examining their responses to various survey and instruments related to beliefs about science. Additionally, participants will discuss and explore common misconceptions in STEM fields through group and individual activities. We will also examine various methods to identify and address misconceptions. Finally, using various course design tools, the aforementioned information will be used to develop a unit design to be implemented that will effectively overcome a specific student misconception within a given participant’s field of study.
Participants are requested to have some collegiate instructional experience (lab leader, discussion leader, instructor of record).
This two-part workshop will take place on Wednesday, March 1 and 8 at 4-6PM ET/3-5PM CT/2-4PM MT/1-3PM PT. We anticipate that participants will need to spend no more than 3 hours total outside the two workshop sessions to adequately prepare for the work we will do together.