About: Learning Assistant Model

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The Learning Assistant Model supports curriculum and course transformation, discipline-based education research, institutional transformation, and teacher recruitment. The LA Model supports transforming courses to align with research-based instructional strategies through hiring Learning Assistants to facilitate evidence based, small group learning activities. Learning Assistants are undergraduate students who, through the guidance of weekly preparation sessions and a pedagogy course, facilitate discussions among groups of students in a variety of classroom settings that encourage active engagement. The LA Model is adopted by and implemented at local institutions who create their own LA Program.

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  • The Learning Assistant Model supports curriculum and course transformation, discipline-based education research, institutional transformation, and teacher recruitment. The LA Model supports transforming courses to align with research-based instructional strategies through hiring Learning Assistants to facilitate evidence based, small group learning activities. Learning Assistants are undergraduate students who, through the guidance of weekly preparation sessions and a pedagogy course, facilitate discussions among groups of students in a variety of classroom settings that encourage active engagement. The LA Model is adopted by and implemented at local institutions who create their own LA Program. Laurie S. Langdon, Valerie K. Otero, Steven Pollock, Steven Iona, and Richard McCray received the American Physical Society 2019 Excellence in Physics Education Award "For the development of the Learning Assistant (LA) model and the associated LA Alliance, which has enhanced physics teacher education and recruitment, supported undergraduate course transformation, and physics instructor professional development." (en)
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  • The Learning Assistant Model supports curriculum and course transformation, discipline-based education research, institutional transformation, and teacher recruitment. The LA Model supports transforming courses to align with research-based instructional strategies through hiring Learning Assistants to facilitate evidence based, small group learning activities. Learning Assistants are undergraduate students who, through the guidance of weekly preparation sessions and a pedagogy course, facilitate discussions among groups of students in a variety of classroom settings that encourage active engagement. The LA Model is adopted by and implemented at local institutions who create their own LA Program. (en)
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  • Learning Assistant Model (en)
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