<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.329412) 1px -1px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">A reminder on the new graduate and undergraduate-level teaching seminar being offered this fall (not listed in the MIT Bulletin). The schedule has been finalized (see below).</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.329412) 1px -1px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="text-shadow: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.329412) 1px -1px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">***</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></B></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">7.391/7.931</FONT></B><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></B></SPAN><B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Concept-Centered Teaching</FONT></B><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Instructor: Julia Khodor (</FONT><A href="mailto:jkhodor@mit.edu"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">jkhodor@mit.edu</FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">, 324-0055, Teaching and Learning Laboratory and Department of Biology)</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><O:P></O:P></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Fall 2006.</FONT><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"> </FONT></SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Tuesdays 2-4pm in 68-151. Undergraduates register for 7.391; graduate students register for 7.931.</FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Do you like teaching, but find yourself frustrated by how little students seem to learn? Would you like to try teaching, but are nervous about whether you will be any good at it? Are you interested in new research on science education?</FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><SPAN style=""></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></FONT></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><SPAN style=""><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000000">Research in science education shows that the greatest obstacle to student learning is the failure to identify and confront the misconceptions with which the students enter the class or those that they acquire during their studies. This weekly seminar course focuses on developing the participants' ability to uncover and confront student misconceptions and to foster student understanding and retention of key concepts. Participants read primary literature on science education, uncover basic concepts often overlooked when teaching biology, and lead a small weekly discussion session for students currently enrolled in one of the undergraduate biology classes.</FONT></SPAN></SPAN></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV class="MsoNormal"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>--</DIV><DIV>Stu Dietz</DIV><DIV>Biology Education Office, Rm. 68-120</DIV><DIV>Massachusetts Institute of Technology</DIV><DIV>77 Massachusetts Ave.</DIV><DIV>Cambridge, MA 02139</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Phone (617) 252-1783</DIV><DIV>Fax (617) 258-9329</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>