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Elevate student engagement by turning course content into meaningful connections that help non-major students understand the real-world relevance of biology.
Helping Non-Majors Biology students see the relevance of course content can make all the difference in engagement and understanding.
During this webinar, Relevancy in Action: Engaging Non-Majors Biology Students, you’ll hear directly from an experienced biology professor as she shares how she brings relevancy into her classroom to connect with students.
During this session, Professor Elizabeth Mays from Illinois Central, discusses how she:
• Connects biology concepts to students’ everyday lives and real-world issues
• How to engage reluctant learners
• Discuss resources that help students understand why biology matters
Elizabeth Mays is a full-time tenured biology professor at Illinois Central College, whose love for teaching began as an undergraduate teaching assistant at Illinois Wesleyan University, where she learned the importance of connecting to students on a personal level. While her current teaching load at Illinois Central College includes non-majors biology along with anatomy and physiology, she has also instructed developmental biology, cell biology, marine biology, and ecology. At ICC, she has focused on incorporating simple activities and practices into her teaching that encourage student ownership of learning, mindfulness, and content relevancy to promote student success. Elizabeth has recently led the redesign of ICC's non-majors biology course to focus on relevancy, including authoring an institution-specific lab manual. She has also authored and edited several projects for McGraw Hill associated with their LearnSmart® and SmartBook® products.
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