Uncommon Sense Teaching
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Instructor led Cohort
Uncommon Sense Teaching
Coursera
A Cohort with the acclaimed Instructor Barbara Oakley with 4+ million learners worldwide. This course weaves late-breaking insights from neuroscience with practical new approaches from the classroom.
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1. Online Course
The course we’ll take. This will be found on an external provider site.
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2. Discussion Forum
Where we support each other as we take the course.
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3. Weekly Live Streams
Where we learn from instructors, experts, or each other.
Cohort Details
- Jan 17, 2022 – Feb 12, 2022
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3-5 hours a week
4 weeks - Weekly live sessions
Course Details
Do your students spend too much (or too little) time learning, with disappointing results? Do they procrastinate in their study because it’s boring and they’re easily distracted? Are you working to make your teaching even more inclusive? Uncommon Sense Teaching will give you practical new insights that will help you solve these goals and challenges, and many more.
This is like no other course on teaching—it weaves late-breaking insights from neuroscience with personal insights from the classroom to provide unexpected, yet practical, new approaches. You’ll discover how to bring out the best from all your students in today’s diverse teaching environment, where students often have a wide range of abilities.
Uncommon Sense Teaching will take your teaching to a higher level for whatever subjects you teach, whether math, physics, literature, dance, art, or anything else; and whether you are teaching K-12, university, business, vocational, or at home.
Join us today to move into the new era of education!
Meet the Instructor
Barbara Oakley
@barb
Barbara Oakley, PhD, PE is a Professor of Engineering at Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan and Coursera’s inaugural “Innovation Instructor.” Her work focuses on the complex relationship between neuroscience and social behavior. Dr. Oakley’s research has been described as “revolutionary” in the Wall Street Journal—she has published in outlets as varied as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. She has won numerous national teaching awards, including the American Society of Engineering Education’s Chester F. Carlson Award for technical innovation in engineering education. Together with Terrence Sejnowski, the Francis Crick Professor at the Salk Institute, she co-teaches Coursera – UC San Diego’s “Learning How to Learn,” one of the world’s most popular massive open online course.
Schedule Jan 17, 2022 – Feb 12, 2022
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Week 1
Monday, Jan 17 – Sunday, Jan 23
- 1.1 Active Learning for All
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Week 2
Monday, Jan 24 – Sunday, Jan 30
- 2.1 Helping the Brain Build Better Links for Learning
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Week 3
Monday, Jan 31 – Sunday, Feb 06
- 3.1 Practice, Passion, and Procrastination
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Week 4
Monday, Feb 07 – Saturday, Feb 12
- 4.1 How Human Brains Evolved—and Why This Matters for your Teaching
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