Dr. Price presents a seminar in the Department of Genome Sciences

Dr. Becca Price presented a talk titled “Scientific teaching: impacts on service, professional development, and faculty affairs” to the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington Seattle. Invited by the Community Organizers of Genome Sciences, Dr. Price spoke about connections among curriculum development, faculty affairs, and research on teaching and learning. She connected scientific methods to how we teach our classes, noting that “Every time we enter a classroom, we’re testing the hypothesis that our students are learning something. Let’s collected the data we need to test that hypothesis.” This approach to teaching is aligned to new changes in the faculty code defining core elements of effective teaching. As a community of educators, UW faculty can support each other adopting these approaches.