ST3S

Students Teaching Teachers Teaching Students

Students often have very good instincts about what works and what doesn’t in the classroom; however, great student ideas for improving teaching often get lost and are rarely published openly. The Students Teaching Teachers Teaching Students (ST3S) programme gives students a way to publish their ideas for how to improve teaching in an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Embedded within the Masters of Research in Neurocience programme at the University of St Andrews, and in collaboration with the Journal of Undergraduate Neuroscience Education, the ST3S programme empowers young neuroscientists at the earliest stages of their careers to take the initiative to change the way neuroscience is taught, while at the same time developing their own career profiles as independent scientists. ST3S publications review ‘amazing papers’ in neuroscience – these are papers that represent important advances in neuroscience, but also have exceptional value for teaching. ST3S publications since 2017 are shown below:

  1. Hooper FW, Morrow J, Rodriguez J, Webb C . Teaching the Applications of CRISPR/Cas9: Using the African Turquoise Killifish as a Novel Model of Aging and Age-Related Diseases. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. (JUNE), Spring 2022, 20(3):R5-R8  
  2. Sane VA. Teaching Principles of Place Cells. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2021 Jun 20;19(2):R23-R27.  
  3. Strathern L. Getting Graded: Teaching Principles of Chemical Synaptic Transmission Without Action Potentials. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2021 Jun 20;19(2):R28-R30.  
  4. McManus J. Sparse Neural Representation of Odor Predicts Learning. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2020 Dec 31;19(1):R1-R3.  
  5. Delgado-Sánchez A. Does It Feel Right or Wrong? The Neuroscience of Moral Judgement. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2020 Dec 31;19(1):R4-R6.  
  6. Elliott D. The Legacy of the Kennard Principle. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2020 Dec 31;19(1):R11-R14.  
  7. Housman HAR. Exploring Neuroplasticity in the Classroom: Teaching Cortical Reorganization in the Visual System with a Stroke Patient Study. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2020 Dec 31;19(1):R15-R18.  
  8. Riegel DC. Discovering Memory: Using Sea Slugs to Teach Learning and Memory. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2020 Dec 31;19(1):R19-R22.  
  9. Takemori T. Exploring the Genetic Underpinnings of Aggression in Drosophila melanogaster. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2021 Jun 20;19(2):R31-R34.  
  10. Wilson JM. Examining Empathy Through Consolation Behavior in Prairie Voles. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2021 Jun 20;19(2):R35-R38.  
  11. Rosen V. One Brain. Two Minds? Many Questions. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2018 Jun 15;16(2):R48-R50.  
  12. Thompson BM. The Grasshopper Mouse and Bark Scorpion: Evolutionary Biology Meets Pain Modulation and Selective Receptor Inactivation. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2018 Jun 15;16(2):R51-R53.  
  13. Scurfield AK. Reviewing the Diverse Effects of Protein Phosphorylation in Neural Signaling Transduction. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2018 Jun 15;16(2):R54-R56.  
  14. Febery J. Faces in the Brain: The Discovery of a Neuronal Subpopulation Selective for Face Recognition. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2018 Jun 15;16(2):R57-R58.  
  15. Dunlavey CJ. Introduction to the Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis: Healthy and Dysregulated Stress Responses, Developmental Stress and Neurodegeneration. J Undergrad Neurosci Educ. 2018 Jun 15;16(2):R59-R60.