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Michelle Smith leads a faculty professional development session on encouraging peer discussion.
Michelle Smith leads a campus-wide faculty professional development session on encouraging peer discussion in the classroom. At the University of Maine the focus of these professional development sessions is based on data collected from classroom observations. To date, over 60 courses from 13 different STEM departments have been observed.
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