IU East Professor George Avirappattu (left) with colleague Joan Esterline Lafuze
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IU East Professor George Avirappattu (left) with colleague Joan Esterline Lafuze |
Biology, IU East
One of her students describes the first day of class: "Dr. Lafuze requested that all students list on 3 x 5 cards their preferred learning styles. I thought this was a waste of paper and time. But to my surprise, these cards were used during lecture and lab to complement everyone's learning preferences." She employs slides, overhead projector, computer interfacing, student cards, outside reading reports, worksheets, group assignments, guest speakers and other activities in the classroom. Lafuze learns her students' names, majors and special interests early in the semester.
She is also a practitioner of an evaluative technique called "feedback loop assessment" in which she tracks her students after graduation and surveys them once they are in their careers.
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