For anyone who needs a refresher, CRUST is a community for STEM TAs here at Ohio State with three major focuses: 1) Professional development 2) Community building 3) Exploration of research-based teaching practices. CRUST will be great for people who are interested in pursuing a teaching position in the future or have a passion for education. To our knowledge, CRUST is the first and only student org at OSU that focuses on professional development for STEM educators. CRUST also provides a space for TAs to connect with each other.

For our next meeting (Sep 14th at 3pm) we will be going over a couple of active learning exercises that could be used during lab as well as talk about the benefits of active learning (Paper attached).
Prince, M. (2004). Does active learning work? A review of the research. Journal of engineering education, 93(3), 223-231.

Freeman, S., Eddy, S. L., McDonough, M., Smith, M. K., Okoroafor, N., Jordt, H., & Wenderoth, M. P. (2014). Active learning increases student performance in science, engineering, and mathematics. Proceedings of the national academy of sciences, 111(23), 8410-8415.

Remember, if you present at a CRUST meeting you will receive more points for Bio 5001. All you will need to do is pick out a research-based paper and outline the paper on PowerPoint or any other presentation software so that we as a group can discuss the paper. 

If you have any questions or a paper you wish to discuss, please email me (wright.2175). Also, below are the rest of the meeting dates! 

Dates of meetings: Sep 14th , Oct 5th , Oct 26th , Nov 16, and Dec 7th (Pizza Social)

RSVP for the workshop with the CLSE here.

 

Following the workshop, email Erica Szeyller.1 to confirm your attendance for the full event time. If you were not able to attend the full event, email Erica Szeyller.1 to discuss the possibility of 5001 course points.