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Active learning strategies have been shown to be effective for teaching science, but it is often challenging for new faculty to adopt these strategies. 'Paired teaching ' is a way to accomplish this: An instructor new to strategies for active learning and an instructor experienced in them teach a semester-long course together, with the goal of professional development for the new instructor. We present case studies of paired teaching in two departments (Physics & Astronomy, and Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences) at a large North American research-intensive university, which provided professional development experiences for 14 faculty members new to active learning. We interviewed faculty before and after paired teaching; we then coded these interviews for faculty perceptions of paired teaching and what and how they learned from the experience. Drawing from these data, we find that paired teaching can be effective in supporting a range of new faculty from two different disciplines to adopt active learning strategies. We offer recommendations to universities interested in establishing a paired teaching program and to faculty members preparing to pair-teach., Instructional methods incorporating active learning strategies such as group problem-solving and peer instruction have been consistently shown to improve student learning in science (Freeman et al., 2014). However, faculty adoption [...]

Graduate teaching assistants (TAs) play an important role in undergraduate programs in our Earth Science Department. A course on teaching and learning was developed to train graduate students in student-centered pedagogy, in a discipline-specific context. The training course has been running for a decade and has been taken by over 100 graduate students. This article describes the development of the course and investigates the impact on graduate students' beliefs about science teaching and learning. Responses to the Beliefs About Reformed Science Teaching and Learning survey indicate that students who have taken the course hold beliefs that are more consistent with research-based principles of how people learn about science than students who have not taken the course. Data from course evaluations and pre- and postcourse surveys demonstrate that taking the course also improves confidence in teaching ability and impacts graduate students' approaches to teaching and their own learning. This course offers effective pedagogical training that gives graduate students the tools to develop and improve their teaching both as TAs and as future faculty members., Over the past 10 years, our Earth Science Department at a large, research-intensive university has had many courses transformed to be focused on best practices in science teaching. This pedagogy, [...]

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