Dr. Price presents a seminar in the Department of Genome Sciences

Photograph of Dr. Price

presented a talk titled 鈥淪cientific teaching: impacts on service, professional development, and faculty affairs鈥 to the Department of Genome Sciences at the University of Washington Seattle. Invited by the , Dr. Price spoke about connections among curriculum development, faculty affairs, and research on teaching and learning. She connected scientific methods to how we teach our classes, noting that 鈥淓very time we enter a classroom, we鈥檙e testing the hypothesis that our students are learning something. Let鈥檚 collected the data we need to test that hypothesis.鈥 This approach to teaching is aligned to new changes in the faculty code defining core elements of effective teaching. As a community of educators, UW faculty can support each other adopting these approaches.