This week we were asked to pick five resources that would help us in our SoTL practice. SoTL is the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (Bender & Gray, 1999). Essentially SoTL discusses how educators study and collect data within their practice through learning from their students, other teachers, and from the success and failure of experimentation within their classroom; they are scholarly in their practice. Below are five resources (annotation included) I will begin to use in my SoTL practice.
The first two resources were collected from the MSU library electronic resources database. When beginning my resource hunt, I called an MSU librarian and asked for advice on searching for scholarly information. I learned that there are various e-resources I can used based on what I am looking for. The librarian told me each resource has an “about” link that will tell me the subject areas it pulls from. He also mentioned if I want scholarly information, I can complete an advanced search which will give me the option to search for abstracts, scholarly journals, peer reviewed journals, etc. I found this very helpful in narrowing my research.
Brunsell, E., & Horejsi, M. (2013). Flipping your classroom in one “take”. The Science Teacher, 80(3), 8. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.msu.edu/login?url=http://search.proquest.com/docview/1323522873?accountid=12598
- This study provides information on the benefits of flipping a classroom. This will be useful when I have to talk to my school principal about why flipping my science classroom will be beneficial to the students, etc.
Brunsell, E., & Horejsi, M. (2013). A Flipped Classroom in Action. The Science Teacher 80(2), 8. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com.proxy1.cl.msu.edu/docview/1314910685/13FD8EC53135DA76594/5?accountid=12598#
- This discusses what a flipped classroom is. This will help my group when working on our workshop proposal.
Flipped Learning Network. (2012). Research on Flipped Learning. Retrieved from http://flippedlearning.org/domain/41
- This provides various research on flipped learning which I can use in my professional practice and on my workshop proposal assignment.
FIZZ Education. (n.d.). fizz. Retrieved from http://fizz.fi.ncsu.edu/
- This site provides information on “how to” flip a classroom. Again, this will help my professional practice.
Problem Based Learning Faculty Institute. (n.d.) What Is Problem Based Learning? Retrieved from http://www.pbl.uci.edu/whatispbl.html.
- This provides information on problem-based learning, which I want to implement in my professional practice.
References
Bender, E. and Gray, D. (1999). The Scholarship of Teaching. Retrieved from http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v22n1/p03.html
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