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<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><div><div><div><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">The next NSM Faculty Development Workshop is scheduled for
</span><b style="font-size: 12pt; ">Tuesday, January 27, </b><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">from </span><b style="font-size: 12pt; ">4-5 pm </b><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">in</span><b style="font-size: 12pt; "> MD Anderson Library, Room 306</b><span style="font-size: 12pt; ">. Our guest speaker will be Dr. Michael Klymkowsky from the University of Colorado. </span></div></div></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns:m="http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/2004/12/omml" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Topic: “Toward a Coherent Curriculum in Biology: Designing, Delivering, and Evaluating Our Educational Efforts”<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Michael Klymkowsky<o:p></o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Professor, Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Co-Director, CU Teach<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">University of Colorado, Boulder<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black">Scientific literacy, broadly defined, is increasingly critical. Like any higher order skill, it requires mastery, through practice, of underlying concepts, relevant observations, and the ability
to use them to generate analytically coherent models. To achieve this goal, instructors need to understand student thinking as well as to explicitly articulate the desired learning outcomes of their course (and overall curriculum). This shapes course content,
teaching strategies, and assessments. I will describe our efforts in this area through the development of the Biology Concept Inventory (BCI) and beSocratic formative assessments, collaborative efforts to build more effective courses in general chemistry and
molecular biology, and will consider the broader question of the forces that encourage and obstruct the design and delivery of coherent disciplinary curricula.</span><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Dr. Klymkowsky pursues research in developmental biology and in education. He is the Co-Director of the CU Teach program for training and certification of future teachers. Dr. Klymkowsky is a strong proponent
of generating curriculum which engages students. He will discuss his efforts in course redesign and in developing concept inventories to assess student understanding. The basic principles are applicable across subject areas.
<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">I hope you will join us next week!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Donna Pattison<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt"><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal">____________________________________<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Donna L. Pattison, PhD<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Instructional Professor<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Assistant Chair of Undergraduate Affairs<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">University of Houston<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Department of Biology and Biochemistry<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">713-743-2642<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div></div></div></span><style><!--
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