Students interact in class thoughtfully and respectfully. Teacher encourages students to work together outside of lecture and during laboratory. Teacher encourages students to work individually with instructor and laboratory teaching assistant. Understand themselves better as learners. Students learn to organize geological concepts and terminology so they can use them to interpret the natural landscape.
Teacher provides daily outline in lecture to help students organize their geological knowledge.
Teacher poses written questions during each lab exercise and a practice quiz at the end of each laboratory exercise. Evaluate their own strengths, limitations, and interests. Students examine their graded lecture and laboratory tests to determine if they are making consistent or systematic errors Teacher encourages students to go over their work and look for patterns of errors. Teacher gives students regular and frequent feedback on performance on tests. All graded materials are returned to students with scores as a percentage listed.