Weekly Flow: an Effective Organizational Tool for Structuring Biology Courses and Supporting Student Learning.

Here, I describe a "Weekly Flow" strategy for structuring college biology courses and making organization transparent to students. Building a course around an established weekly schedule that consists of the same, or similar, elements (for example, assessments, readings, assignment types, and/or class activities) provides structure and predictability that helps students with time management and therefore enables them to engage more deeply with the course material. This flexible framework can be applied in a wide variety of course types and teaching modalities.