Flower Darby celebrates and promotes effective teaching in all class formats to be inclusive, welcoming, and support all students as they learn and succeed. As faculty and an instructional designer, she’s taught community college and university classes for over 24 years in a range of subjects including English, Technology, Leadership, Dance, and Pilates. A seasoned face-to-face and online educator, Flower loves to apply learning science across the disciplines and to help others do the same.
Flower speaks, writes, presents, and consults on teaching and learning theory and practice both nationally and internationally. She has helped educators all over the world become more effective in their work. She is the author, with James M. Lang, of Small Teaching Online: Applying Learning Science in Online Classes, and she’s a columnist for the Chronicle of Higher Education. Her new book on emotion science and teaching with technology is forthcoming from West Virginia University Press.
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Website: flowerdarby.com
Becoming an expert takes practice, and it also means responding to feedback. In this course, we look at how to take create moments for students to practice skills in ways that will benefit from your expert observations.
One of the things that distinguishes an expert from a novice is the density of connections between facts, concepts and skills. This course explores how we can help student make those connections that deepen understanding.