How to Improve Teaching in Classrooms: Talks with Kimberly Tanner

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“Beyond Assessing Knowledge” by Kimberly Tanner – Western Conference on Science Education 2015

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Think-Pair-Share is a learning technique that can be used in small or large classroom that engages students to communicate with one another by sharing ideas and solutions to classroom problems given by the teacher. This method of teaching helps develop students thinking skills, as well as scientific thinking skills in a biology/science based classroom setting. In think-pair-share, students think an answer to a question given by the teacher, then get paired with a partner to exchange their ideas to the problem, and then share their answers with the class as a whole. In the link shows a video of think-pair-share in action.

Link: https://www.ibiology.org/professional-development/think-pair-share/

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This video shows Kimberly Tanner, a Professor of Biology at San Francisco State University, and her colleagues’ recent study on how to improve teaching in the classroom by collectively improving teaching with teachers around the Biology Department. This talk takes place in a LSE (Life Science Education) Inaugural Session.

Link: https://www.ascb.org/event/online-with-lse-collectively-improving-teaching/

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Tanner, K.D., Structure Matters: Twenty-One Teaching Strategies to Promote Student Engagement and Classroom Equity. CBE: Journal of Life Science Education, 12, 1-10, (2013). pdf

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