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Improve Teaching Practice

Teaching Activities

Browse through several thousand teaching activities that have been developed by SERC-hosted projects across many STEM disciplines (biology, chemistry, earth science, physics, etc.) and teaching contexts.

Strong Pedagogy

Browse resources for enhancing student engagement, higher-order thinking, quantitative reasoning and problem-solving skills in every course, through effective curriculum design, active pedagogy, and professional development opportunities.

Teaching by Discipline

Browse through discipline-specific collections of materials and guidance developed through SERC-hosted projects. Resource include course descriptions, essays, project sites, and more.

Strengthen Programs and Systems

Facilitate Career Pathways

Faculty and students alike are on career pathways and there are rich guideposts available for both. Find resources for academic career development, preparing for the workforce, and what employers are looking for.

Make and Sustain Change

Change efforts in higher education take many forms but there are common elements that change agents can utilize. Several programs have developed exemplars that can help guide future work.

Engage with Networks

Working at scales larger than the individual or a single department is an important part of improving the whole undergraduate education system. Networks are tackling pressing issues that can't be addressed in isolation.

Utilize Quantitative Approaches

Infusing quantitative competencies across programs and curricula is increasingly critical across all STEM disciplines and beyond. Find teaching materials, tutorials, and advice for teaching basic skills, computation, and data analysis.

Support All Students

Higher education systems have a responsibility to ensure that all students have the opportunity and support to succeed. Impactful practices can help institutions and programs set students up for success.

SERC is a grant-funded office at Carleton College, founded to improve education in the Earth sciences and beyond. We are a team of educators, researchers, and technical specialists who have worked with over 300 education projects across the STEM disciplines and allied fields. Engaging participants from more than 1,400 institutions of higher education, as well as K-12 curriculum developers and teachers, we have created one of the world's largest collections of pedagogic resources.

We work with many different types of partners on a wide variety of project types, durations, and sizes. Our partners are individual collaborators, departments and institutions, national and international educator collectives, professional organizations, multi-institutional consortia, industry partners, and more. Partner with SERC »