Track: BIOCHEMISTRY AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY
Monica Rieth
Southern Illinois University
Become familiar with new modes of instruction. Learn to work outside of your teaching comfort zone by incorporating new exercises and lessons that align with other teaching modalities. The content will include ways to incorporate new teaching modalities into biochemistry education both in the classroom and in the lab using examples and evidence-based practices reported in the current literature. Exercises and sample lessons will be implemented to help instructors and members/attendees adapt new techniques to their current practices. For example, a lesson on amino acids and protein structure may be taught in a lecture-style format and attendees would be asked to adapt this lesson to a flipped-style classroom or problem-based learning exercise. How would each person change the format/content using examples to illustrate these changes? Attendees will also be asked to identify and/or anticipate any advantages or disadvantages to changing to this new teaching modality. Such as increased/decreased student engagement. Attendees will learn about advances in classroom teaching and modern practices. They will become familiar with different teaching styles and learn how to incorporate new styles into their current classroom. Attendees will also develop a network community of educators who can help provide support.
Who should attend: Instructors teaching undergraduate- or graduate-level biochemistry courses or labs both for majors and nonmajors. Those interested in exploring different teaching styles and modalities in their courses.