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Title: Peer Instruction Methods for Teaching in Satellite Engineering


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Peer Instruction Methods for Teaching in
Satellite Engineering
Dr. Vaios Lappas Lecturer in Space Vehicle
Control SCEPTrE Fellow Surrey Space
Centre FEPS Email v.lappas_at_surrey.ac.uk
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The Art of of Teaching
  • Most teachers waste their time by asking
    questions which are intended to discover what a
    pupil does not know, whereas the true art of
    questioning has for its purpose to discover what
    the pupil knows or is capable of knowing.
  • Albert Einstein

3
SCEPTrE Fellowship
  • PGCAP The Beginning
  • SCEPTrE Becoming a Better Teacher
  • SCEPTrE Education and Leadership
  • Enquiry Based Learning Hands-On Teaching
  • Enquiry through Peer Instruction can produce a
    measurable improvement in teaching and student
    understanding

4
Enquiry for Teaching and Learning
  • Enquiry for Teaching and Learning To bring a
    creative, motivational and effective level of
    understanding to solve complex problems through
    collaboration and hands on teaching and
    learning
  • Teachers need to
  • Be creative, enhancing the learning process
  • Be motivational, inspire, attract student
    attention
  • Be effective, a lot of complex material to be
    taught and learned in a short time
  • Can Enquiry help us make a difference?

5
Peer Instruction E. Mazur
  • July 15-27 and December 1-7 visits to Harvard,
    Study Enquiry, Complex Learning
  • Seminar at Surrey, March 7, 2008

6
Hands-on Satellite Simulator
7
ConcepTest Scores Before and After Discussion
8
Feedback Scores-Teaching
  • Average (2007) 4.67/5.0, Sample of 100 Students
  • Average in past years (2002-2006) 4.0-4.3,
    Sample of 362 Students

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SCEPTrE Fellowship Outcomes
  • Peer Instruction methodologies for teaching
    Satellite Engineering
  • Lecturing Material
  • Measurable improvement in teaching and student
    understanding
  • Journal papers
  • IEEE Journal of Education
  • Research Collaboration with the Harvard
    Education Group
  • Appointed Research Fellow at Harvard University
  • Prof. Mazur Seminar, March 7, 2008
  • Working towards a Certificate in Education and
    Leadership at the MIT Sloan Business School
  • Short Course in Complex Problem Solving
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