Futures Initiative at CUNY Inspires New Teaching Styles (originally posted on CHE)

By Cathy Davidson. In a science course underway this semester at City University of New York’s Lehman College, the instructor used a teaching technique called "think-pair-share" one week. Each student took 90 seconds to write on an index card three ideas about an assigned reading. Then the students paired up, took turns reading aloud to each other what they had written, and decided on the single most important idea to share with the class. Later students wrote one another follow-up questions using the website for the course, "Anatomy and Physiology of the Speech Mechanism." More...