Academic English Seminars

The OIST Interdisciplinary Academic Word List

The most frequently used words at OIST - Click here for the Cambridge Dictionary Word List

The most frequnelty used words at OIST as flash cards - Click here for the quizlet flash cards

Video Seminars

Teaching Basics for Scientists

In this video you will:

• learn 6 simple active learning techniques you can adapt to any classroom
• practice adapting science textbook material to an active learning style

In this video you will:

• learn terminology related to goals and objectives
• write goals and objectives using Bloom's taxonomy
• practice writing goals and objectives for a lesson based on textbook material

In this video you will:

• learn about summative and formative assessment
• understand how to use different kinds of rubrics
• learn advantages and disadvantages to different types of assessment