Teaching methods

Caffeine occurs in tea leaves, coffee beans, and cola nuts. Morphine is obtained from unripe opium poppy seed pods. Coniine, extracted from hemlock, is the alkaloid that killed Socrates. Fie was sentenced to death because of unconventional teaching methods teacher evaluations had teeth in them in ancient Greece. 

Felder, R. M., D. R. Woods, J. E. Stice, and A. Rugarcia (2000) The future of engineering education Teaching methods that work. Chemical Engineering Education 34(1), 26-39. 

Karukstis, K. K. (2003) Using case studies to introduce environmental and economic considerations in general chemistry. Presented at Non-Traditional Teaching Methods Methods Other Than Lecture and Assessment of These Methods, an online conference, March 28-May 9,2003. 

The books are not, in general, designed as undergraduate texts, but rather are intended for use at graduate level and by established research workers. However, teaching methods are in such rapid evolution that some of the books may well find use at an earlier stage in university education. 

Likewise, Barry Alford, in his multi-disciplinary DCM project, found that the study of real student work authored by our [MMCC] students produced a lexicon with which faculty across the curriculum could discuss not only assessment, but also curriculum, teaching methods, and other issues around which they had not previously been able to converse. In Alford s words, their DCM efforts allowed MMCC faculty for the first time... 

To stimulate and provide opportunity for exchange of ideas and discussion among pharmaceutical educators with a view to improving curricula and teaching methods. 

Teaching Method Discovery approach of science teaching is the main teaching method followed in this programme. Students learn science through inquiry approach especially by experimentation, discussion and field trips. 

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