In addition to presenting at professional conferences, the PENS team has significant experience designing, facilitating, and evaluating workshops that actively engage STEM instructors at both the collegiate and high school levels. In the past three years, we have conducted over 25 workshops in a variety of settings and on a variety of STEM education topics.
Please contact us if you’re interested in having one or more of us present or facilitate a workshop. We can cover a range of disciplines (chemistry, mathematics, physics or teacher preparation) and topics:
Here are some of our recent PENS…
...presentations:
…workshops:
I think you are a fantastic facilitator; good conversations about instruction happen when you are around! Also, your willingness to engage in critical dialogue (as opposed to being defensive) really enables learning and growth to happen on our parts. I always leave your sessions feeling more in love with teaching, so thank you! Participant in professional development workshop
Please contact us if you’re interested in having one or more of us present or facilitate a workshop. We can cover a range of disciplines (chemistry, mathematics, physics or teacher preparation) and topics:
- Metacognition within problem-solving
- Instructional techniques that encourage self-regulation among students
- Assessing STEM problem-solving skills
- Using technology to facilitate instructor-student and student-student collaborations
Here are some of our recent PENS…
...presentations:
- Problem Solving Through Think-Aloud (2015 International Conference on Technology in Collegiate Mathematics)
- Improving Students‘ Problem-Solving Competence With Think-Alouds (2013 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
- Examination of students’ self- monitoring in problem solving (2013 Physics Education Research Conference)
- Locating Introductory Mechanics Problems Along the Well-structured- Ill-structured Continuum (Summer 2013 AAPT Meeting)
- Think-Alouds as Instructional and Assessment Methods (2013 International Institute for SoTL Scholars and Mentors)
- Using technology to improve problem-solving skills and flip classroom learning in organic chemistry: Problem-Solving through Think-Alouds (2013 National American Chemical Society Conference)
- Student Think-Alouds As An Instructional Technique (Winter 2013 AAPT Meeting)
- Problem-solving Examples with Narration for Students (2013 AAAS-NSF TUES Principle-Investigator Conference)
- Asynchronous Group Problem Solving (Winter 2012 AAPT Meeting)
…workshops:
- Essential Problem Solving Skills and How to Teach Them (2014 Southern California section of AAPT Meeting)
- A New Look at Problem-Solving in Introductory STEM Courses (2014 Cal Poly Pomona and Pasadena City College joint summit)
• Problem-Solving with Think-Alouds (2014 National Science Teacher Association Area Conference on Science Education)
- Problem Solving Through Think-Alouds (2013 International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning)
- Problem-Solving through Think-Alouds (2013 Lilly West Conference) (Problem-solving rubric handout)