Teaching Undergraduate Science

Teaching Undergraduate Science: A Guide to Overcoming Obstacles to Student Learning offers college and university instructors evidence-based strategies to help students learn those specific skills and habits of mind necessary for succeeding in STEM fields. Updated and expanded from the first edition, this text elaborates on critical factors in cultivating student success, including how to engender a sense of belonging and agency in STEM, engage students in their learning, and foster deliberate practice. Hodges provides frank guidance on the relative effort and outcomes for each strategy, allowing instructors to choose techniques best suited to their aims and contexts. While focusing primarily on face-to-face classes, this resource also addresses how to work between online resources and physical spaces. Hodges' years of experience working as and with STEM faculty provides a personal connection to the research shared, producing an accessible, practical, and enjoyable read.

Linda C. Hodges is Emerita Director of the Faculty Development Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA; past Director of the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning at Princeton University, USA; and a former tenured chemistry professor. She publishes widely on research in teaching and learning.

1. Introduction: Making the most of the time we spend teaching 2. Engendering students' sense of belonging and engagement in STEM 3. Motivating, engaging, and empowering students to learn on their own 4. Helping students get the most out of class time 5. Helping students learn from reading 6. Helping students learn, and learn from, problem solving 7. Helping students learn from tests and assignments 8. Helping students learn from laboratory work and research 9. Helping students learn to write like a scientist 10. Making choices about what and how to teach in STEM