In this BCCE Community Conversation preview, Melissa talks with chemistry education researcher Ellen Yezierski about scholarly teaching: making evidence-guided decisions about how we teach and how students learn. They discuss why content knowledge alone isn’t enough, how educators can improve their teaching without becoming full-time researchers, and why some of the best chemistry teaching ideas come from asking better questions about learning.

 

 

2:50 – Meet Ellen Yezierski and the idea of scholarly teaching

4:00 – Moving beyond intuition and using evidence to improve teaching

6:35 – What chemistry educators can learn from cognitive science and education research

8:30 – The biggest challenge: finding time to improve your teaching

11:00 – Why conferences and community matter for innovation

13:45 – Barriers to evidence-based teaching and the risk of changing what’s familiar

16:20 – Applying the same scientific scrutiny to old teaching methods

19:40 – A practical first step toward scholarly teaching

21:00 – Finding useful teaching research without getting overwhelmed

25:20 – Meet the panelists and the ideas they’ll bring to BCCE

29:10 – How the Community Conversation will work

32:35 – Why good teachers are made, not born

34:00 – Filling your teaching cup back up at BCCE

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