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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

Cool Cat Teacher

Jon Bergmann, author of the Mastery Learning Handbook talks about how he uses mastery learning in his chemistry and physics classrooms. This has amplified Jon’s voice with teachers and professors. The genesis of this was when an exchange student showed up to my class second semester, the high school chemistry class.

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REU-PATHWAYS 2024

Northeastern University

This included presentations on key items such as lab safety from Northeasterns’s Office of Academic and Research Safety (OARS) and Research Learning Contracts (RLC’s) from Professor Patricia Mabrouk. Thank you to our presenters! While some of the students have a computer science background, others are brand-new to coding!

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How can first-year STEM university students be better supported?

Futurum

At the University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg in the US, biologists Barbara Barnhart and Dr Olivia Long are using their Science Seminar programme to ease this transition for first year students studying biology, chemistry and biochemistry degrees. What do the seminars teach students? How is Science Seminar forward focused?

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Pathways to STEM Update

Northeastern University

Students have the ability to ask faculty and professors about their research, and educational journey among other things. Josep Jornet , Professor, Defining the Future of Wireless Communication Networks. Week 1 Thursday (September 30th): [Chemistry]. Rein Kirss , Professor, Designing Drugs.

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How do bacteria help and harm crops?

Futurum

This is why, at Louisiana State University in the US, Professor Jong Hyun Ham is studying the impacts of bacteria on rice and soybean. Over 50% of the world’s population depends on rice as a staple food,” says Professor Jong Hyun Ham, a plant pathologist at Louisiana State University. “It glumae quorum-sensing.

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How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

Futurum

Based at the University of Alberta in Canada, Professor Jacqueline Cummine is helping decode how we read – in particular, the important role of our senses – and using these findings to help people who struggle with literacy skills. They won first place for Outstanding Communication! (©

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From field to lab: the changing nature of archaeology

Futurum

We bring together students from backgrounds in history, anthropology, archaeology, chemistry and museum studies to work collaboratively on the project,” he says. DR LIZA GIJANTO Associate Professor of Anthropology St. LARSEN Professor of Chemistry St. FIELD OF RESEARCH: Analytical Chemistry. DR RANDOLPH K.