One of our favorite ways to improve as teachers is to talk to great teachers to hear about what they do in the classroom and how they think about it. That’s just the kind of conversation we hope to engender in this roundtable. Four teachers will get the dialog started by sharing their experiences with planning, scaffolding, and assessing active, experiential components for undergraduate (and high school) learning in HPS.
Some highlights:
• Using history and imagined futures to engage science students on the ethical and social implications of medical devices.
• Asking students to analyze examples of popular science from the mid-19th C to the present and then produce their own stories, podcasts, comics, and other media to communicate a science concept to non-expert audiences.
• Promoting higher education among high school students through a weeklong intensive, experiential course in the history of medicine.
• Partnering with the university planetarium to enable students to solve issues of representation in campus spaces through the creation of historically informed design products.
Organized by Isaac Record (Michigan State University)
