Lessons from my undergraduate research students

From very early on, my personal/professional life has been shaped by teachers in many different settings. Teaching and learning form a two-way street. In the process of teaching undergraduate students, particularly in the research lab, I have learned some profound lessons about the importance of listening to them, challenging them, giving them autonomy, and allowing them to enjoy success and to risk failure. I am now working with a team of faculty members to implement these lessons in a course-based undergraduate research experience in the biochemistry teaching laboratory. Our goal is to seek answers to the question How do students become scientists? and to implement those answers with our future students.

从很早开始，我的个人生活和职业生活就在许多不同的环境中受到了教师的影响。教学是一个双向的过程。在教授本科生的过程中，尤其是在研究实验室里，我深刻地认识到倾听他们、挑战他们、给予他们自主权以及让他们享受成功和敢于面对失败的重要性。我现在正与一组教师合作，在生物化学教学实验室的基于课程的本科生研究实践中应用这些经验。我们的目标是寻求“学生如何成为科学家？”这一问题的答案，并将这些答案应用于我们未来的学生。