Talk #1
Public guest lecture - Prof. Dr. Kimberly D. Tanner, San Francisco State University, Department of Biology, Director of "The Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory" (SEPAL)
Title: Talk Matters: Investigating the nature of non-content classroom language – instructor talk – that may mediate student inclusion, engagement, and learning
Through the language they use, instructors create classroom environments that have the potential to impact learning by affecting student motivation, resistance, belonging, and selfefficacy. However, despite the critical importance of instructor language to the student experience, little research has investigated what instructors are saying in
undergraduate classrooms that is not about content. We systematically investigated instructor language not directly relate to content and defined this as “Instructor Talk.”
Evidence will be presented on the nature and prevalence of Instructor Talk from dozens of biology courses, and emergent research frameworks will be shared that
enable the study of Instructor Talk for both research and instructor professional development. Findings suggest that non-content instructor language may be an underappreciated variable influencing classroom inclusiveness and student learning.
Time and Location:
Monday March 27 - 16.15-17.45, University of Zurich, Rämistrasse 71, 8006 Zürich, Room KOL-G-209.
Also via Zoom (Meeting ID: 697 3719 1796, Passcode : 434637)
Questions? contact sara.petchey@uzh.ch
Talk #2
Public guest lecture - Prof. Dr. Kimberly D. Tanner, San Francisco State University, Department of Biology, Director of "The Science Education Partnership and Assessment Laboratory" (SEPAL)
Title: Investigating Differences in How Biological Novices and Experts Understand the Natural World – Card Sorting, Superheroes, and Intuitive Reasoning
How do experts structure their thinking about the concepts in their discipline? How is this different from the way those new to the field, novices, approach these same ideas? To what extent do students organize their disciplinary knowledge around surface versus deep features of the discipline? How might intuitive ways of knowing underlie common misconceptions embraced by biological novices? In this interactive seminar, Dr. Kimberly Tanner will engage the audience in exploring reasoning by biological novices and experts, drawing upon her own research that integrates methodologies from science education and cognitive psychology.
Time and Location:
Thursday March 30 - 12.15-13.00, University of Zurich, Irchel Campus, Winterthurerstrasse 190, 8057 Zurich, Lecture hall 03-G-95 (Campus navigation help at https://www.plaene.uzh.ch/campus/I)
For more details on the host seminar series, please go to https://www.ieu.uzh.ch/seminars/full_seminar_list.php?seminar=BEEES. Other questions? - contact sara.petchey@uzh.ch
Workshops (probably March 28 and 29)
Download the program in pdf bellow.
