Past Journal Club Meetings By Academic Year and Topic
2024-2025
- Fall: Teaching Large Classes
- Winter: Teaching and Learning STEM: A Practical Guide (2nd ed.) by Richard M. Felder and Rebecca Brent
2023-2024
- Fall: Mitigating Math Anxiety
- Winter: Alternative Grading Systems
- Spring: Teaching and Learning with Generative AI
2022-2023
- Fall: Assessing Student Learning and our Teaching
- Winter: Remembering and Forgetting in the Age of Technology, by Michelle Miller and Geeky Pedagogy, by Jessamyn Neuhaus
- Spring: Emerging Issues in Teaching at UO
2021-2022
- Fall: Teaching for Science Literacy
- Winter: What Inclusive Instructors Do: Principles and Practices for Excellence in College Teaching, by Tracie Marcella Addy, et al.
- Spring: Helping Students Succeed in Your Course
2020-21
- Fall: Teaching STEM in a remote or online environment
- Winter: Distracted: Why Students Can't Focus and What You Can Do About It, by James Lang
- Spring: Expanding the in-person experience - Mixing teaching modalities to better serve our students
2019-20
- Fall: UO Core Education Methods of Inquiry – Critical Thinking, Creative Thinking, Written Communication, and Ethical Reflection
- Winter: How Humans Learn: The Science and Stories behind Effective College Teaching by Joshua R. Eyler
- Spring: Teaching STEM in a remote or online environment
2018-19
- Fall: Inclusivity, active learning, and assessment
- Winter: Teaching Undergraduate Science: A Guide to Overcoming Student Obstacles to Learning
- Spring: Broadening student experience outside the classroom
2017-18
- Fall: Engaged, research-led, and inclusive teaching practices
- Winter: Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James M. Lang
- Spring: Your course from the ground up
2016-17
- Fall: Teaching large classes
- Winter: Diversity and Equity in STEM and Science Communication
- Spring: Evidence-based teaching in practice
2015-16
- Fall: Improving students’ scientific literacy
- Winter: Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Mark A. McDaniel and Peter C. Brown
- Spring: Scientific teaching and pedagogy
2014-15
- Fall: Assessment and teaching techniques
- Winter: Scientific teaching and pedagogy
- Spring: Active engagement techniques
2013-14
- Fall: Scientific teaching and pedagogy
- Winter: How Learning Works by Marie K. Norman, Marsha C. Lovett, Michael W. Bridges, Michele DiPietro, and Susan A. Ambrose
- Spring: Teaching applications
2012-13
- Fall: Scientific teaching and pedagogy
- Winter: Scientific Teaching by Jo Handelsman, Sarah Miller, and Christine Pfund
- Spring: Taking Action: Applying teaching techniques to science content to increase student science literacy
2011-12
- Fall: Methods for improving teaching and increasing students’ science literacy
- Winter: Methods for improving teaching and increasing students’ science literacy
- Spring: Methods for improving teaching and increasing students’ science literacy
2010-2011