1. How Learning Works: Seven Research-Based Principles for Smart Teaching Dr. Michele DiPietro Executive Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching and Learning Kennesaw State University mdipietr@kennesaw.edu http://www.kennesaw.edu/cetl

2. Introduction: Bridging Learning Research and Teaching Practice Dr. Dontarie Stallings Assistant Professor of Chemistry Department of Science, Math, and Health Professionals Atlanta Metropolitan State College dstallings@atlm.edu Section I:

3. Methods and Conditions that Promote Student Learning Technical:  Research Articles Concrete strategies for course design:  Books  Web Sites

4. Methods and Conditions that Promote Student Learning Problem with current methods:  Theoretical vs. Practicality The Goal of this book:  Bridge the gap

5. Universal Problems Facing Student Learning To Be Addressed:  Application of material  Eliminating misconception  Lack of engagement  Faulty self assessment of knowledge  Continual use of ineffective strategies

6. Seven Principles: Purpose of the principles:  Understand why certain approaches support / do not support student learning  Generate and foster effective techniques that foster student learning  Apply effective techniques to new courses

7. What is learning?  Learning is a process not a product  Learning involves change  Learning is a result of how students interpret experiences “Process that leads to change, which occurs as a result of experience and increases the potential for improved performance and future learning.”

8. Our principles of learning: Learning is holistic:  Learning is a developmental process  The background of a students effects the learning process

9. Student’s prior knowledge can help or hinder learning: Principle 1:

10. How Students organize knowledge influences how they learn and apply what they know: Principle 2:

11. Introduction: Bridging Learning Research and Teaching Practice Dr. Thomas Searles Assistant Professor of Physics Department of Science, Math, and Health Professionals Atlanta Metropolitan State College tasearles@atlm.edu Section I:

12. Student’s motivation determines, directs, and sustains what they do to learn Principle 3:

13. To develop mastery, Students must acquire component skills, practice integrating them, and know when to apply what they have learned: Principle 4:

14. Goal-directed practice coupled with targeted feedback enhances the quality of student’s learning: Principle 5:

15. Student’s current level of development interacts with the social, emotional, and intellectual climate of the course to impact learning: Principle 6:

16. To become self-directed learners, students must learn to monitor and adjust their approaches to learning Principle 7: