That sounds more like a problem of the teaching style than school in particular. Instead of assigning textbook pages to be read, a better way is to give the students problems to solve and tell them that those textbook pages are relevant to solving the problem. That’s how my biology and biochemistry classes went. We were never assigned to read particular pages of the book.
a better way is to give the students problems to solve and tell them that those textbook pages are relevant to solving the problem. That’s how my biology and biochemistry classes went. We were never assigned to read particular pages of the book.
That does sound like a better way. Personally, I’m halfway through my biomedical engineering MS and have never experienced a STEM class like this. If you don’t mind my asking, where did you take your bio/biochem classes (or what type of school was it)?
I studied bioinformatics at the Free University of Berlin. Just like we had weekly problem sheets in math classes we also had them in biology and biochemistry. It was more than a decade ago. There was certainly a sense of not simply copying what biology majors might do but to be focused more on problem-solving skills that would presumably be more relevant.
That sounds more like a problem of the teaching style than school in particular. Instead of assigning textbook pages to be read, a better way is to give the students problems to solve and tell them that those textbook pages are relevant to solving the problem. That’s how my biology and biochemistry classes went. We were never assigned to read particular pages of the book.
That does sound like a better way. Personally, I’m halfway through my biomedical engineering MS and have never experienced a STEM class like this. If you don’t mind my asking, where did you take your bio/biochem classes (or what type of school was it)?
I studied bioinformatics at the Free University of Berlin. Just like we had weekly problem sheets in math classes we also had them in biology and biochemistry. It was more than a decade ago. There was certainly a sense of not simply copying what biology majors might do but to be focused more on problem-solving skills that would presumably be more relevant.