Associate Professor Baldwin Wallace University, United States
The key to graduating talented and useful STEM majors is not learning, it is development. Development of the ability to solve complex, multi-step problems by critical thinking and the efficient exchange of ideas. A student can’t develop critical thinking skills by listening to a professor, watching a video, or reading a book. These are all good ways to learn. However, the only way to develop the ability to think critically and deeply for a long time is – not surprisingly – to think critically and deeply for a long time. In this workshop, I will present a raft of problems that require students to think critically for a long time to reach a new level of understanding and I will give many proven teaching strategies that will get the students to embrace the struggle.
