Almanac : Poems / / Austin Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910452970903321
• Autore: Smith Austin
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2013]; ©2014
• ISBN: 1-4008-4803-2
• Edizione: [Course Book]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (93 p.)
• Collana: Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets ; ; 63
• Disciplina: 811/.6
• Soggetti: English poetry; Poems; Poetry; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- The Silo -- Queen-Anne's Lace -- Fort-Da -- Thistles -- The Night My Mother -- How a Calf Comes into the World -- Lightning -- Autumn's Velocity -- The Brinkmeiers -- Aerial Photograph, Glasser Farm, 1972 -- Dean -- Coach Chance -- The Man Accused of Fucking Horses -- The Bait Shop -- Memoir of My Imaginary Sister -- Neon Apotheosis -- Bingo -- Stephenson County Fair in Wartime -- Nancy and Dwayne, Danville, Virginia, 1970 -- Romeo and Juliet in the Tomb -- The Battlefield -- The Pit -- The Man Who Poisoned Robert Johnson -- Nazi Soldier with a Book in His Pants -- Sharpener of Knives -- Overlord -- The Hotel -- The Equation -- Resonance -- Postcards to Andrew Wyeth -- Recollection -- Letter to My Father Written in a Bar in Mitchell, South Dakota -- On a Greyhound Bus in America -- Mission -- The Scythe -- The Mummy in the Freeport Art Museum -- Sirens -- A Serious House on Serious Earth -- Poem for Les, Homeless -- Elegy for Missing Teeth -- Directions for How to Use Crest Whitening Strips -- The Trencher -- Instructions for How to Put an Old Horse Down -- The Key in the Stone -- Wake -- Notes -- Acknowledgments
• Sommario/riassunto: Almanac is a collection of lyrical and narrative poems that celebrate, and mourn the passing of, the world of the small family farm. But while ; the poems are all involved in some way with the rural Midwest, particularly with the people and land of the northwestern Illinois dairy farm where Austin Smith was born and raised, they are anything but merely regional. As the poems reflect on farm life, they open out to speak about childhood and death, the loss of tradition, the destruction of the natural world, and the severing of connections between people and the land. This collection also reflects on a long poetic apprenticeship. Smith's father is a poet himself, and Almanac is in part a meditation about the responsibility of the poet, especially the young poet, when it falls to him to speak for what is vanishing. To "e another Illinois poet, Thomas James, Smith has attempted in this book to write poems "clear as the glass of wine / on [his] father's table every Christmas Eve." By turns exhilarating and disquieting, this is a remarkable debut from a distinctive new voice in American poetry.______ From Almanac: THE MUMMY IN THE FREEPORT ART MUSEUM Austin Smith ? Amongst the masterpieces of the small-town Picassos and Van Goghs and photographs of the rural poor and busts of dead Greeks or the molds of busts donated by the Art Institute of Chicago to this dying town's little museum, there was a mummy, a real mummy, laid out in a dim-lit room by himself. I used to go to the museum just to visit him, a pharaoh who, expecting an afterlife of beautiful virgins and infinite food and all the riches and jewels he'd enjoyed in earthly life, must have wondered how the hell he'd ended up in Freeport, Illinois. And I used to go alone into that room and stand beside his sarcophagus and say, "My friend, I've asked myself the same thing."

Trends in Teaching Experimentation in the Life Sciences : Putting Research into Practice to Drive Institutional Change / / edited by Nancy J. Pelaez, Stephanie M. Gardner, Trevor R. Anderson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910568278503321
• Autore: Pelaez Nancy J.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2022
• ISBN: 9783030985929; 303098592X
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2022.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (572 pages)
• Collana: Contributions from Biology Education Research, , 2662-2327
• Disciplina: 570.78
• Soggetti: Science - Study and teaching; Education - Curricula; Educational tests and measurements; Teaching; Science Education; Curriculum Studies; Assessment and Testing; Didactics and Teaching Methodology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Part I. Vision and Initiation Phase: Envisioning What, When, and How Students Learn about Biological Experimentation -- 1. The problem with teaching experimentation: Development and use of a framework to define fundamental competencies for biological experimentation -- 2. Using data to identify anticipated learning outcomes for new and existing curricula -- 3. ACE-Bio experimentation competencies across the biology curriculum: When should we teach different competencies and concepts? -- 4. Integrating the five core concepts of biology into course syllabi to advance student science epistemology and experimentation skills -- Part II. Operationalizing and Planning: Designing Instruction to Promote Learning of Biological Experimentation -- 5. Backward designing a lab course to promote authentic research experience according to students’ gains in research ; abilities -- 6. Using the ACE-Bio Competencies resource as a course planning tool to guide students in independent research -- 7. Experiments in data mining: Using digitized natural history collections to introduce students to data science -- 8. A framework for teaching and learning graphing in undergraduate biology -- Part III. Implementation and Student Engagement: Guiding Learners to Do Experiments and Use Representations in Biological Research -- 9. Teaching undergraduate students how to identify a gap in the literature: Design of a visual map assignment to develop a grant proposal research question -- 10. Virtual Microscope: Using simulated equipment to teach experimental techniques and processes -- 11. Introductory biology students engage in guided inquiry: Professional practice experiences develop their scientific process and experimentation competencies -- 12. Feedback and discourse as a critical skill for the development of experimentation competencies -- 13. Engaging students with experimentation in an introductory biology laboratory module -- Part IV. Assessment, Evaluation, and Grading What Students Learn about Biological Experimentation -- 14. Comparison of published assessments of biological experimentation as mapped to the ACE-Bio Competence areas -- 15. Research Across Curriculum Rubric (RAC-R): An adaptable rubric for the evaluation of journal article style lab reports -- 16. Assessing undergraduate research, a high impact practice: Using aligned outcomes to detail student achievement to multiple stakeholders -- 17. Assessment of evidentiary reasoning in undergraduate biology: A lit review and application of the Conceptual Analysis of Disciplinary Evidence (CADE) framework -- Part V. Complementary Frameworks for Guiding Students' Experimentation Practice -- 18. Hybrid labs: How students use computer models to motivate and make meaning from experiments -- 19. Electronic laboratory notebook use supports good experimental practice and facilitates data sharing, archiving and analysis -- 20. Growing innovation and collaboration through assessment and feedback: A toolkitfor assessing and developing students’ soft skills in biological experimentation -- 21. Biological reasoning according to members of the faculty developer network for undergraduate biology education: Insights from the Conceptual Analysis of Disciplinary Evidence (CADE) framework -- Part VI. Approaches to Biological Experimentation Instruction of Relevance to Biology Education Programs in General -- 22. Teaching successful student collaboration within the context of biological experimentation -- 23. Biochemistry and art: Incorporating drawings, paintings, music, and media into teaching biological science -- 24. Strategies for targeting the learning of complex skills like experimentation to different student levels: The intermediate constraint hypothesis -- 25. Implementing innovations in undergraduate biology experimentation education.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book is a guide for educators on how to develop and evaluate evidence-based strategies for teaching biological experimentation to thereby improve existing and develop new curricula. It unveils the flawed assumptions made at the classroom, department, and institutional level about what students are learning and what help they might need to develop competence in biological experimentation. Specific case studies illustrate a comprehensive list of key scientific competencies that unpack what it means to be a competent experimental life scientist. It includes explicit evidence-based guidelines for educators regarding the teaching, learning, and assessment of biological research competencies. The book also provides practical teacher guides and exemplars of assignments and assessments. It contains a complete analysis of the variety of tools ; developed thus far to assess learning in this domain. This book contributes to the growth of public understanding of biological issues including scientific literacy and the crucial importance of evidence-based decision-making around public policy. It will be beneficial to life science instructors, biology education researchers and science administrators who aim to improve teaching in life science departments. Chapters 6, 12, 14 and 22 are available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.