Dr. David Fortus, associate professor at Weizmann Institute of Science, will present "Motivating Meaningful Learning."

The characteristics identified with meaningful learning (self-regulation, effort, long-term memory, transfer, positive attitudes, etc.) are remarkably (or perhaps not so remarkably) similar to the characteristics associated with mastery orientation. Perhaps our efforts to support meaningful learning in science should focus not only on core disciplinary and crosscutting ideas, scientific practices, scaffolding, representations, and curricular coherence, but also on helping students develop a mastery orientation toward science?

This is a brown bag lunch event.

Seminar series events feature an nterdisciplinary audience of faculty, postdoctoral fellows, graduate students in STEM with a broad interest in Discipline-Based Education Research (DBER), Science Teacher Education, and K-12 STEM Education Research at MSU.

Location:	252 Erickson Hall [map]
Price:	free
Sponsor:	CREATE for STEM Institute
Contact:	Rachel Kramer rkramer@msu.edu 517-432-0816
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