Paula Tower’s students use a variety of active learning tools, from drawing concept maps and Venn diagrams, acting out a cellular process or handling pipe cleaner models, to answering questions in class or explaining a concept to a classmate. Analyzing real data or applying a concept to a new model helps students to think about what they are learning in new ways and identify what they do not understand. Asking questions about how a new topic relates to a previous one helps students to develop a sense of how things are connected and not just isolated facts. She uses lots of analogies to familiar, everyday things (food!) to make this invisible world more relatable.University of Portland
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