Teaching With Expertise, For Expertise

Abstract

As experts in our fields, occasionally faculty find themselves at odds with students who are not yet experts. The disciplinary knowledge and skills that faculty take for granted are often the missing link in their students' learning. How can faculty leverage their own expertise to help students develop theirs? The panelists participated in a faculty learning community (FLC) this year entitled Teaching for Expertise. Each identified a key "bottleneck" in one of their courses where students tend to struggle, and applied the technique of Decoding the Disciplines in order to address that struggle through an expert's lens. Panelists will describe their projects and demonstrate their revised approaches to an audience of willing non-experts.

Bibliographic data

Salomone, M., Freeburg, M., Shaw, T., Dussault, M., & Czerwinski, E. (2014) Teaching With Expertise, For Expertise.

External source

https://vc.bridgew.edu/may_celebrations/2014/session2/12/