Review of Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide
Review of Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide
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STEM 教学回顾：实用指南
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2016
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Sarah B. Boesdorfer
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Sarah B. Boesdorfer
教与学STEM：费尔德和布伦特的《实用指南》，正如它所宣传的那样，是一本针对STEM（科学、技术、工程和数学）教师的指南。在目的和内容上，这本书与《最好的大学教师是做什么的？》等书非常相似。(1)但以STEM为重点，并对教授大学课程所需的细节进行更全面的讨论。这本书为教师面临的几乎每一个问题提供了指导，包括整体课程设计，课堂设计，评分，小组工作，甚至作弊，等等。作者的目标是“描述一些行之有效的教学方法大多数相对简单，不需要大量的准备时间和一些提出更大的挑战，并准备你实施这些方法”（第9页）;他们实现了这个目标。他们讨论的主题数量巨大，不允许他们提供支持他们建议的学习理论或研究的信息，尽管他们尝试对研究和引文列表进行快速总结。读者必须信任作者或研究背后的想法进一步自己的建议，但费尔德和布伦特在他们的领域经验丰富，提供的想法很好地支持研究文献。
Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide by Felder and Brent is, as it is billed, a guide for STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) instructors. In its purpose and content, the book is very similar to books such as What the Best College Teachers Do? (1) but with a STEM focus and with a more comprehensive discussion of details required to teach a collegiate course. The book provides guidance for almost every issue faced by instructors, including overall course design, class session design, grading, group work, even cheating, and much more. The authors’ goal is “to describe some proven teaching methods—most relatively easy ones that don’t require major preparation time and a few that present greater challenges— and to prepare you to implement those methods” (p 9); they achieve this goal. The immense number of topics they discuss does not allow them to provide much information on the learning theory or research supporting their suggestions, though they try with very quick summaries of the research and citation lists. The reader must trust the authors or research the ideas behind the suggestions further on their own, but Felder and Brent are experienced in their field, providing ideas well supported by research literature.