Late on a Friday afternoon, I stood in front of 30 exhausted graduate students in a social science course I teach at Teachers College, Columbia University. Knowing that I had the perfect thing to perk them up, I excitedly informed them it was “time for a clicker question!” As they ruffled through their book bags […]
Archives for March, 2012
Peer Instruction Network member Dr. Cassandre Alvarado’s graduate classroom at the University of Texas at Austin is so quiet, you could hear a pin drop. Her 18 students are sitting around a large oval table, silently staring at the front of the classroom, but not because they are listening to her lecture. Dr. Alvarado is implementing Peer […]
(Read this post in Portuguese) Turns out people from all over the world have some common questions about Peer Instruction. Let’s start with the most basic of all–as Brian from Ireland, Raquel from the Dominican Republic, and Daniel from Bakersfield California recently asked, “What is Peer Instruction?” Peer Instruction is a research-based, interactive teaching method […]
Peer Instruction Network The global community for potential and current users of Peer Instruction. On http://www.peerinstruction.net, we are registering members to be part of the network. In the near future, we will launch site features which allow you to network with other members in their cities, disciplines, universities, and more. Turn to Your Neighbor: The […]
Peer Instruction: A research-based method for flipping your classroom. While “flipping the classroom” may seem like a recent phenomenon, Peer Instruction, developed in the early 1990s, has always elevated that core educational site to a place where much more than information delivery transpires. Backed by more than 20 years of research, PI transforms classrooms from […]
“We want lecture!” Faculty who try out flipped classroom techniques will undoubtably face this response from students. In February 2012, conversation on education list-serves about student resistance was stimulated in response to a Chronicle article titled, “How ‘Flipping’ the Classroom Can Improve the Traditional Lecture”. One reason students resist flipped class methods, including those which use Peer Instruction (PI), […]
A common question about Peer Instruction is, where can you find ConcepTests for your discipline? There are a number of databases for ConcepTest (interactive questions) on the web. You can find hundreds of ConcepTests at http://www.learningcatalytics.com, for example. When Eric and I are searching for ConcepTests in a particular discipline, we use the following search: […]
Turn to Your Neighbor: The Official Peer Instruction Blog 