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Students Teaching Students: Changing The Uri Honors Program Pedagogy, Bridget C. Griffith
Students Teaching Students: Changing The Uri Honors Program Pedagogy, Bridget C. Griffith
Senior Honors Projects
The myriad lecture courses I have completed as a microbiology major have convinced me that lecturing does not create an optimal learning environment. Therefore, my Senior Honors Project is the initiation of a Students Teaching Students (STS) program in the URI Honors Program. The excitement of a student-run course option at URI became apparent to me early in my academic career. The STS model has been used at other universities for over 55 years, including at Tufts University, Oberlin College, and The Rubenstein College of the Environment at the University of Vermont. The program being put into place at URI …