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Professional Development in Evidence-Based Teaching Series

SABER is pleased to announce a new opportunity: the Professional Development in Evidence-Based Teaching (PDET) Seminar Series, which will run from the fall of 2024 through the spring of 2025. This new seminar series was conceptualized in response to member requests for SABER to 1) offer more year-round programming, and 2) provide more opportunities for professional development that connect the Biology Education Research (BER) findings that characterize the organization with the mission of SABER to improve post-secondary biology education. Seminars will be given by experts in the field who have demonstrated translatable research and sometimes sponsored by education-centered companies that offer products to further enhance evidence-based pedagogy.


Upcoming events

    • 10/18/2024
    • 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM
    • Virtual
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    Professional Development in Evidence-Based Teaching:

    Leveraging technology to help students succeed—a conversation with Codon Learning

    Join a conversation with Scott Freeman, Jenny Knight, and Alexa Clemmons on leveraging technology to help students succeed


    Friday, October 18, 2024

    11:00 am PT/12:00 pm MT/ 1:00 pm CT/ 2:00 pm ET


    Education studies show that high-structure courses can cut grade inequities by 40+%. What’s next after high structure? 

    Over the course of an hour, we’ll take a deeper dive into three core questions:

    • What is high structure and how do we know it promotes equity in student outcomes?

    • How can technology help students in high-structure courses spend their study time most productively? 

    • Can this approach reduce grade inequities even further?

    We’ll highlight key literature, share new findings, and give an overview of how Codon Learning leverages technology to promote evidence-based practices at each stage of the learning cycle. 

    This seminar is sponsored by Codon Learning

    This is a free event! Registration is required. 
    Attendees will receive a Zoom link for the event in their confirmation email. 


    Dr. Scott Freeman is Lecturer Emeritus at the University of Washington. The recipient of a UW Distinguished Teaching Award, he has published research on how innovative approaches to teaching science benefit all students, but particularly students from disadvantaged backgrounds. He is the author of the textbooks Biological Science and Evolutionary Analysis, which have sold over 500,000 copies and been translated into multiple languages, and the popular book Saving Tarboo Creek, which is for general audiences. He is the course director of Codon’s Learning’s majors biology curriculum: Introducing the Life Sciences

    Dr. Jenny Knight has been teaching biology courses at all levels in the Department of Molecular Cellular and Developmental Biology at the University of Colorado Boulder for 25 years. Her work as a Biology Education Researcher has included developing concept assessments to diagnose student misunderstandings and measure learning gains, developing and  facilitating workshops on scientific teaching (withNIST), and studying how students learn by engaging in complex problem solving, reasoning, and self-regulation.  She was a founding member of the Society for the Advancement of Biology Education Research (SABER), and its president (2019-2020). She is the course director of Codon Learning’s genetics curriculum: Principles of Genetics

    Dr. Alexa Clemmons is Codon’s Director of Product. After earning her Ph.D. in genetics at the University of California San Diego, Alexa transitioned to discipline-based education research at the University of Washington. Her postdoctoral work unpacked the AAAS Vision and Change core competencies by first defining measurable learning outcomes and then developing curriculum mapping tools. During her PhD and postdoc, Alexa got to teach a variety of courses, trying her hand at the evidence-based teaching approaches that Codon promotes and learning their joys and challenges. At Codon, Alexa directs the platform’s feature development, with the goal of making evidence-based teaching and learning practices more effective and easier to use.

Sponsor SABER’s Professional Development Series

SABER welcomes partners to support this professional development series. Sponsoring this initiative allows your organization to make a direct impact while showcasing your products and services to a highly engaged audience of professionals and educators. Contact emily@saberbio.org for details. 

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