Every year, I give lectures to graduate students, and I will have some experience and reflection.Although there is always confusion as to how much knowledge the postgraduate curriculum has to say, at the same time as the postgraduate tutor and teaching teacher, some intuition is very meaningful.
I always believe that postgraduate teaching should focus on ability training, regardless of introduction of a concept, a theory, a theory, a research, etc. , ability to think and analyse logic is important.What is the context for a new concept?What is the background of the author's research?What's the point of the new concept?What is the contribution to the development of disciplines?Introduce a study. What is the background and theoretical significance?What are the key scientific questions?How to raise scientific questions?How is it designed? What are the new experimental methods?How do I interpret data and charts?What are the main results and conclusions?What are the contributions to the discipline?What other issues need to be addressed further?And so on. In graduate school, have acquired basic reading and analysis skills, as long as there is a desire to learn, to actively consult literature, books, knowledge is easy to obtain.But when teachers with scientific experience teach, they will pay attention to the process of acquiring knowledge, and will also dispel some doubts and uncertainties in their own reading.
Yesterday was the first seminar of this year's graduate course. Three groups of students were arranged to report, one group was four students took turns reporting, and four people cooperated to complete the adaptation of marine mammals.Although there are some details, methods, parameters, etc., graduate students may not be able to understand clearly, but the overall content of marine mammals faced with stress, food, oxygen, osmotic pressure, body temperature regulation and so on.During the discussion, I consciously led questions in many ways, such as what is the main stress on mammals in the marine environment?How do I get food?What factors determine the depth and duration of the dive?Why is the water temperature of the marine environment an influential factor?How to adjust osmotic pressure?How is kidney function measured?How to determine metabolic rate?What is the most important ingredient in the body of marine mammals?How do whales sleep while exercising?Application of kinetic models in animal motion analysis, etc.This allows students to truly understand two main aspects of animal physiology and ecology: survival and reproductive function.Faced with environmental changes and challenges, how do animals adapt in behavior and physiology, which are adaptable in life cycle, and which are adaptable in species evolution.What laws are universal and what are species-specific? Think about and analyze adaptability convergence and adaptability convergence, and understand the meaning of integrative ecology (biology, zoology, zoology, etc.).Although the discussion lasted far more than five minutes, from everyone's eyes, everyone liked it.I also think that according to the students' knowledge, consciously and purposefully to explain scientific research ideas, analysis methods and so on, should be the most effective.
The other group introduces the wintering strategies of insects, including physiological, biochemical and molecular aspects. The knowledge is comprehensive and the information is large.Similarly, what adjustments do insects make in the face of low temperature stress in winter as variable temperature animals?Furthermore, what impact will global climate change have on insect wintering?
Another set of topics, based on the "Phenomenological Pattern – Question(s) – Hypothesis – Prediction – Experimental Design" steps in class, pondered an interesting question about why some fish flock in the face of sudden weather changes.Scientific research methods need to be mastered by graduate students. Many students have never quite understood the hypothesis that hypothesis is an idea or an explanation, and are easily confused with prediction.
And then back to graduate courses to learn, so through thinking training, whether should be better than simple teachers full house irrigation effect.I always feel that graduate students need ability training, is thinking training, need to do scientific research basic literacy training.
Curriculum teaching thinking, recording, communication and consultation.