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SUMMARY:Visiting STEM Education Scholar
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DESCRIPTION:Dr. Steven Pollock, University of Colorado with be visiting Tuesday, October 24, 2017.  The Department of Physics and Astronomy will be hosting a workshop and Distinguished Colloquium presented by this highly-recognized science educator and researcher.  Dr. Pollock has been a leader in developing tools and instructional formats to increase student engagement and raise student success in both introductory and upper-division undergraduate physics courses.  His focus has been on the use of research/evidence based approaches to improving instruction.  Among Dr. Pollock’s many awards, he received the 2013 U.S. Professor of the Year Award for Doctoral/Research Universities.\n\nPlease contact Tom Dickinson with any qusetions: jtd@wsu.edu\n\nWORKSHOP\n\n"Writing Great Clicker Questions and Sparking Peer Discussion"\n\nIf you are using, or want to use, clickers in your classroom, but are struggling to write, revise, and implement questions that engage students, this informal workshop is for you. We will focus on questions that facilitate "peer instruction" -- a research-tested method of requiring students to discuss challenging questions with one another. This workshop is appropriate for instruction in all STEM disciplines, and will focus on questions with one right answer.\n\nLunch will be provided and space is limited, please RSVP to physics@wsu.edu by Thursday, October 19!
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