Dr. Edward Prather, University of Arizona

Every year tens of thousands of students learn how to think like an astronomer by engaging in small-group discussions guided by Lecture-Tutorials. In this session you will learn about how to successfully bring these active-learning strategies into your classroom. Whether it’s a large enrollment lecture course, a hybrid or flipped classroom, a lab or a recitation session, Lecture-Tutorials have been successfully implemented into hundreds of courses across the US and have been shown to significantly increase learners’ discipline literacy and enjoyment of learning astronomy.