Remote conversations to enhance class experience in the time of COVID: co-teaching with a wingman model
Remote delivery poses numerous challenges particularly for discussion-based classes. Here we describe a class management model that uses a conversational approach between instructional co-leaders to introduce topics and facilitate student discussions. The conversational approach enabled us to mode...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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American Society for Microbiology
2021-03-01
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| Series: | Journal of Microbiology & Biology Education |
| Online Access: | https://jmbesubmissions.asm.org/index.php/jmbe/article/view/2317 |
| Summary: | Remote delivery poses numerous challenges particularly for discussion-based classes. Here we describe a class management model that uses a conversational approach between instructional co-leaders to introduce topics and facilitate student discussions. The conversational approach enabled us to model various aspects of the scientific process - such as asking questions and generating hypotheses - aimed at an emergent subject, such as COVID-19. Students' feedback was positive, noting how the class enabled them to connect their existing knowledge with the daily influx of new insights about the SARS-CoV-2. While our class focuses on COVID-related topics, this model of a conversational style class can be easily implemented for other course topics.
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| ISSN: | 1935-7877 1935-7885 |