 April, 2008
Pedagogy in Action
Strong site organized by pedagogical approach – e.g., role play, Socratic questioning.
Grade Level: Professional
http://serc.carleton.edu/sp/index.html
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CONTENT
Pedagogy in Action from the Science Education Resource Center (SERC), an office of Carleton College, offers teachers and pre-service teachers an overview of more than twenty-five pedagogic techniques for teaching across the undergraduate curriculum.
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SITE DESIGN
The site is well organized and quite easily navigated. There are three main sections: Teaching Methods, Activities, and Research on Learning. The site is also fully searchable.
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REVIEW
Pedagogy in Action will provide veteran teachers as well as those new to the profession additional teaching methods to add to their teaching toolbox. More than twenty-five methods are succinctly described including cooperative learning, gallery walk, game-based learning, interactive lectures, Socratic questioning, assessment, peer review, quantitative writing, role playing and others. The descriptions are written by practicing teachers and include tips for effectively using the technique, research on the learning impact and a set of sample activities. Visitors to the site will find more than 600 activities that span more than a dozen subject areas and more than 200 examples of research on learning. Resources can be easily browsed from the search page as they are grouped by subject, pedagogy and research topic.
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