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Skilled plumbers or skilled electricians can be trained.
Is it possible to train skilled inquiry teachers also?
Herb Gottlieb from New York City
(Where skilled teachers must be are born with the where-with-all
before we can train them.)
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 11:28:06 -0500 Sam Sampere
<sampere@SUHEP.PHY.SYR.EDU> writes:
I thought that's what the education departments were supposed to be
churning
out. Do teachers in training need more methods classes, more media
classes,
etc. Don't get me started on teacher training. Or should we discuss
that??
Sam
Herbert H Gottlieb wrote:
On Thu, 17 Dec 1998 09:44:05 -0500 "John W. Layman"<jl15@UMAIL.UMD.EDU>
writes:Laboratory
Conceptual Software
The richest conceptual software is the Microcomputer Based
thesoftware which allows students to study and record the behavior of
physical
systems, and to transform this into personal understanding under
tutelage of the skilled inquiry teacher. Unfortunately the secondJohn...
element
in not available via the computer.
Where does one find such teachers?
Herb
--
Sam 'No snow, so we're making mud angels!' Sampere
Syracuse University
Department of Physics
Syracuse, NY 13244
315-443-5999