The content of the class is not only about how people learn in classrooms, but how humans and non-human animals learn from their entire life experience.
Open discussion is encouraged in the classroom, and is a vital element of the lab.
There are opportunities for students to learn and contribute as research assistants in my lab. My approach is to work closely with students, but with the goal of incrementally increasing independence. Students are encouraged to take charge of projects in every way they can, and to develop their own interests and projects, so that when their training is completed, they are capable of developing an idea from a germ to a publication entirely on their own. An experientially derived base-rate error in humans. Learning to commit or avoid the base-rate error.