Peer-Led Team Learning is an innovative model in science education. Student-leaders (peers) guide the activities of small groups of students in weekly Workshop meetings. The students work through challenging problems that are designed to be solved cooperatively. The peer leaders are trained to ensure that the students are actively and productively engaged with the material and with the each other. This methodology offers a number of educational opportunities: the supportive format encourages questions and discussions that lead to conceptual understanding; students learn to work in teams and to communicate more effectively; peer leaders learn teaching and group management skills. Designed exclusively for instructors, this unique book explains the theory behind peer-led team learning, offers suggestions for successful implementation (including how to write effective group problems and how to train peer leaders), discusses how to evaluate the success of the program, and answers frequently asked questions.

This product accompanies:
Varma-Nelson & Cracolice,  Peer-Led Team Learning: General, Organic, and Biological Chemistry

• Comprehensive.

  • Contains all the material an instructor would need to learn about, implement, and evaluate a peer-led team learning workshop in any chemistry course. Ex.___

• Versatile—This book discusses issues related to the educational methodology and not to specific courses.

  • Instructors of any chemistry course can use this book. Ex.___

• Evaluation is specifically addressed—If such programs are going to be implemented, they need to be shown to be successful.

  • The authors discuss how and what to evaluate to satisfy external reviews of the program. Ex. ___

• Extensively class-tested—The material in the guidebook has been tested and evaluated on students at a variety of institutions and fine-tuned for efficacy and accuracy.

  • The material in this guidebook forms a strong base of material that can be used as is and at once. Ex.___

• Instructor Website allows constant updating.

  • As this material is refined, users can receive updates and interact with those at other institutions who are implementing similar workshops. Ex.___

 1. The Peer-Led Team Learning Workshop Model.


 2. The Students' Perspectives.


 3. Writing Workshop Materials.


 4. Workshop Leader Training.


 5. Institutionalizing the Workshops.


 6. Workshop Evaluation.


 7. Vygotsky's Theories of Education: Theory Bases for Peer-Led Team Learning.


 8. An Introduction to Theory and Research on Promoting Student Motivation and Autonomous Learning in College-Level Science.


 9. The View from Industry.


Appendix I: Group Methods for Workshops: Specific Practice.


Appendix II: Workshop Leader Training: Specific Practice.


Appendix III: Evaluation: Specific Practice.

Cooperative Learning  (Chemistry)
General Chemistry (2 - Semester)  [OTHER TEXTS OF INTEREST]   (Chemistry)

The Workshop Project is a collaboration of teachers, learning specialists and students that develops and implements a Peer-Led Team Learning model of teaching science. Students who have done well in the course are selected and trained for leadership roles. These peer leaders guide the work of teams of 6-8 students to solve carefully structured problems in weekly Workshop sessions.

For the Chemistry Discipline

Framework Molecular Model Student Kit
Brumlik
©1965   |   Prentice Hall   |   Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap   |   Instock
ISBN-10: 0133300765   |   ISBN-13: 9780133300765
Suggested retail price: $57.27  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $42.95  (What's this?)

Introductory Chemistry Math Review Toolkit
Long
©2009   |   Prentice Hall   |   Paper; 64 pp   |   Instock
ISBN-10: 0136018580   |   ISBN-13: 9780136018582
Suggested retail price: $17.27  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $12.95  (What's this?)

Show Downloadable Files

Hide Downloadable Files

|

More Info

Lab Experiments, 8/E
Nelson & Kemp
©2000   |   Prentice Hall   |   Paper; 560 pp   |   Instock
ISBN-10: 0130841013   |   ISBN-13: 9780130841018
Suggested retail price: $52.63Net price: $39.47  (What's this?)

Organic & Inorganic Molecular Model Kit
Darling
©2007   |   Prentice Hall   |   Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap   |   Instock
ISBN-10: 0132334704   |   ISBN-13: 9780132334709
Suggested retail price: $36.20  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $27.15  (What's this?)

Organic Molecular Model Kit
Darling
©2007   |   Prentice Hall   |   Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap   |   Instock
ISBN-10: 0132334712   |   ISBN-13: 9780132334716
Suggested retail price: $28.47  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $21.35  (What's this?)

Prentice Hall Molecular Model Set for General and Organic Chemistry
Pearson
©1998   |   Prentice Hall   |   Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap   |   Instock
ISBN-10: 0139554440   |   ISBN-13: 9780139554445
Suggested retail price: $72.33  Buy from myPearsonStoreNet price: $54.25  (What's this?)