Postdoc Seminar in Innovative Teaching: Learn how to apply Inclusive and Innovative Science teaching in higher education

As teachers, we often face students that are unable to follow our classes. What is worse, when teaching science there are these gender and racial gaps when performing that are not due to the student capabilities, and that we need to learn how to overcome. But do not despair! There are strategies to engage the whole classroom. Come to this seminar to learn about Inclusive teaching to close these gaps, and innovative teaching to increase the overall performance of all your pupils.   

Teaching methods have evolved throughout last decades. In order to learn the different possibilities that Innovative Teaching offers, this seminar will explore how each field can provide ideas that can be applied in other areas. In this way, both participants and assistants will improve their knowledge concerning to how to teach and how to create a better environment in the class, in which students play a more dynamic role. These activities will be held mainly by predoc and postdoc fellows of RCC. 

Speaker: Marta Pérez Rando, RCC Postdoctoral fellow at the MassGeneral Institute of Neurodegenerative Disease (MIND) and affiliate of Harvard Medical School.

Sponsors: RCC; Postdocs@RCC.