NSF Chatauqua Courses

During the years 1994, 1995 and 1997 I taught an NSF Chautauqua Course titled "Promoting Reflective Thinking in Science Classes."  I taught this course in San Francisco and in Puerto Rico.  This short course led faculty through a process by which they considered what skills and attitudes their students are bringing to the classroom and the cognitive abilities and assumptions of their students (using the Reflective Judgment Model of Cognitive Development).  From this basis, participants were encourage to design new course goals that had an appropriate mixture of process and content for their science courses.