Learning Actively Mentoring Program

LAMP is a comprehensive, sustained mentoring and professional development program with an emphasis on how to best adopt active learning strategies in large-scale active learning classrooms at UW.  It is a UW Top-Tier Science Initiative Program. Program goals include:

• Improving student retention, success, and engagement in STEM classrooms.

• Enabling all new and most existing STEM teaching faculty and teaching assistants to become trained in best practices and active learning strategies by 2022 by providing time and support, adequate teaching spaces, mentoring, and access to and interpretation of teaching and learning best practices and innovations.

• Conducting "second generation" research on active learning in STEM in all classrooms, with an emphasis on what is working in AL classrooms, to investigate relationships between teaching practices and student success, literacy, engagement, and feelings of inclusion. 

• Establishing professional development/collaboration opportunities for science instructors across the State with the goal of improving learning experiences for all Wyoming students as they transition through educational levels.

To learn more about LAMP's goals and achievements, refer to our 2022 Strategic Plan, our 2021 Progress Update and our 2026 Strategic Plan.

Active Learning Spectrum There are many techniques to engage students in constructing their own knowledge. We envision these as a spectrum!	Meet LAMP Director Rachel Watson

 

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Programs and Activities

 

Summer Institute and Yearlong Training on Active Learning	LAMP Educator Learning Community	Learning Assistants Program	LAMP Community College Network
Supports UW PhD students, UW faculty, and WY community college faculty in incorporating active learning techniques and methonds into their STEM curricula during an intensive summer retreat and year-long workshops	Click to read about the scholarship of teaching and learning done by members of the LAMP ELC!	Supports undergraduate and post-baccalaureate students as learning assistants in large gateway science courses taught in active learning classrooms.	Learning Communities for Pedagogies of Innovative Excellence.

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Campus & Statewide Engagement

LAMP Trains Faculty in Community-Engaged Service Learning

LAMP Supports Fellows' NSF Grants

 

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Resources and Materials

Publications & Awards	Teaching Philosophy Rubric	Critical Thinking
LAMP Fellows Publications & Awards	Assessment Tool	Questions that stimulate critical thinking
Why Do Active Learning	LAMP Lite Bytes	Active Learning Spectrum
Measurable Outcomes	Short Instructional Tutorials	Strategies and Philosophies

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Interested in giving to the Learning Actively Mentoring Program?

Give here https://www.uwyo.edu/science-initiative/si-giving-page.html 

Please remember no gift is too small to make a difference, and we thank you for your support!

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