Core Foundations of Teaching and Learning

Description from DukeHub

Through investigating research in cognitive psychology, educational psychology, and learning sciences students will learn how to develop inclusive education environments and implement practices that support all learners. Students will reflect on their own experiences and that of their peers to examine how research-based methods and individual diversity and privilege impacts learning. Additionally, students will implement and apply new understandings through TA/ULA roles during the semester. Recommended prerequisite - Concurrently enrolled as a TA/ULA.

Skills

• fieldworkAI review: "implement and apply new understandings through TA/ULA roles"

AI-resilient: 1 of 5 1/5

• No: Physical, lab or field work
• ✓Yes: Live work with people · "teaching"
• No: Judgment someone is accountable for
• No: A craft you practice with your hands or body
• No: Small, in-person format

The checks lean on Microsoft Research, Working with AI (2025), which found generative AI applies least to physical work and hands-on work with people. A signal, not a promise. How the score works

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