Best Practice Certification - STEM

STEM Best Practice in Gateway Courses

Select Tuesdays @ 1:20 p.m. or Fridays @ 10:20 a.m. Specific dates will be selected based on participant schedules. 

This Best Practice Certification will focus on high impact practices in STEM gateway courses.  Sessions will be led by a variety of your colleagues. Those selected to complete the certification will receive $500 stipends.

Five one-hour sessions will focus on the following topics:

• Designing Engaging Courses (Brunsell, Mihalick)
• Creating Effective Homework (Sipes, Wenner)
• Community Building Through Group Work (McDermott, Winterrowd)
• Active Learning in Large Classes (Crawford, Schuttlefield-Christus)
• Sharing Course Innovations (multiple presenters)

Coordinator: Eric Brunsell (brunsele@uwosh.edu)

Sessions will be facilitated by a variety of faculty from COLS.

NOTE: To receive the Best Practice Certification and stipend, you must attend all sessions and submit a report showing evidence of course revisions.

Applications for the Spring 2013 BPC has been closed at this time. Please check back in Fall 2013 for the next BPC opportunity!