Publication date:
13 November 2012Length of book:
128 pagesPublisher
R&L EducationDimensions:
277x216mm8x11"
ISBN-13: 9781610484480
Standard math and science textbooks typically follow a deductive style of content presentation that involves too much lecturing, too much of the teacher’s back at the chalkboard, too little interaction with students, and too little time for all of the students to take adequate notes.
By reading and using A Teaching Guide to Revitalizing STEM Education, educators will rediscover how to streamline the subject matter— math, physics, statistics, and organic chemistry—by eliminating unnecessary difficulties and distractions from course textbooks. A useful guide for both high school teachers and postsecondary faculty, this book explains how to organize, arrange, and streamline STEM content so that it is approachable, understandable, and applicable for students. Likewise, this guide discusses important classroom management skills and pedagogical techniques that will help students master these critical subjects. Providing and explaining over a dozen lesson plans, A Teaching Guide to Revitalizing STEM Education will encourage educators to effectively optimize the recent emphases on science, technology, engineering, and math education.
By reading and using A Teaching Guide to Revitalizing STEM Education, educators will rediscover how to streamline the subject matter— math, physics, statistics, and organic chemistry—by eliminating unnecessary difficulties and distractions from course textbooks. A useful guide for both high school teachers and postsecondary faculty, this book explains how to organize, arrange, and streamline STEM content so that it is approachable, understandable, and applicable for students. Likewise, this guide discusses important classroom management skills and pedagogical techniques that will help students master these critical subjects. Providing and explaining over a dozen lesson plans, A Teaching Guide to Revitalizing STEM Education will encourage educators to effectively optimize the recent emphases on science, technology, engineering, and math education.
This latest book by Khatri and Hughes utilizes their student-friendly inductive pedagogical techniques in its design. Their recent innovation of presenting problems in parallel is revolutionary, in my opinion. In terms of achieving high retention and successes for students in STEM disciplines, this book can change the teaching landscape forever....I highly recommend this book for everyone teaching a STEM discipline at the high school and college levels. The book contains examples of instructional material for a number of STEM disciplines designed in parallel using the inductive and student-friendly pedagogical techniques. Using these approaches, I have been able to complete entire math courses in less than the prescribed time-frames—and still have all my students with me, and succeeding.