Re: 2 million teachers in 2007!

[Joseph Bellina <jbellina@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

Lillian is Lillia  McDermott who runs a physics education group at U. of
Washington.  For the last twenty years they have been investigated how
students learn and how to best help them learn.  Their focus has been on
teaching prospective, and inservice  teachers.  The text associated with
this is Physics
by Inquiry, by Wiley.  The research results have been published often in
The American Journal of Physics and in The Physics Teacher, but
elsewhere as well.  Definitely worth a good look.

joe

  On Fri, 13 Aug 1999,
Lois Breur Krause wrote:

> > I can only speak for Indiana, and then not in an official way.  At least
> > on paper the state is moving in the right direction.  It is one of the
> > few states that accepted the AAAS's recommendations for k-12 as their
> > own.  The result is an increased interest in inquiry based learning,
> > which is how I have gotten into the process.  I am thoroughly sold on
> > Lillian's work and her text Physics by Inquiry for teaching eled majors
> > and inservice teachers, and as a first course for secondary ed majors in
> > math and science...I gotta tell you, its a work of art...I know there is
> > not silver bullet, but this thing is damn close....or at least that is
> > how I see it.
>
>
> more info please...  is Lillian a first or last name for the author?  who's
> the publisher?
> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
>
> Dr. Lois Breur Krause
> Department of Geological Sciences
> 442 Brackett Hall
> Clemson University
> Clemson SC  29634
>
> teaching chemistry, physics, astronomy and geology to elementary education
> majors.
>
> How We Learn and Why We Don't: Student Survival Guide,
> available from International Thompson Publishing, ISBN 0324-011970
>
> http://home.earthlink.net/~breurkrause
>
> krause@clemson.edu