Promoting first-year student research skills and critical thinking
November 1, 1:00 – 2:15
Rowe 319
Presenters: Renée M. Gilberti and Tina Huey
How can instructors add course elements that help prepare undergraduate students to be a researchers earlier in the undergraduate journey? Guest presenter Renée M. Gilberti, PhD, MS is the Program Coordinator of the UConn McNair Scholars. In this teaching talk, Dr. Gilberti will describe a course, “Sleep to Succeed,” designed to enhance critical thinking skills by teaching students how to collect data and communicate research findings.
The objective of the session is to share a semester-long activity that informs students about critical thinking, data collection, and data presentation. This session will be of interest to instructors considering approaches to teaching research skills and data analysis to first or second year students.
During the workshop, we will:
- conduct a whiteboard activity to brainstorm incorporation of a similar exercise in your class with your curriculum
- discuss different ways we as instructors incorporate critical thinking into our curriculum
- as a bonus, hear about the need for sleep (what the students discovered in their research)
This teaching talk will be in person.
Register - https://fins.uconn.edu/secure_inst/workshops/workshop_view.php?ser=2251
For more information, contact: Stacey Valliere at stacey.valliere@uconn.edu