[Physltest] [Phys-L] Re: "Effective" teaching methods

[Joseph Bellina <jbellina@SAINTMARYS.EDU>]

Isn't this saying about educators what the research shows about
students, telling them to change their model of how the world works does
very little.  That is why we designed a workshop to help elementary
teachers experience guided inquiry as students, and in so doing confront
their own flawed model of electric circuits and their own flawed model
of how it is that they learn. In other words we use guided inquiry to
teach them the power of guided inquiry.

Anecdotely it is most effective with K-5 teachers and less so with 6-8.

On
Tue,
16 Nov 2004, John Clement wrote:

> I would refer to the latest JRST Nov 2004 which has a very interesting
> article about why and how teachers use reformed pedagogy, "An Investigation
> of Experinece Secondary Science Teacher' Beliefs About Inquiry: An
> examination of Competing Belief Sets", C. Wallace, N. Kang, JRST 41 (9) pp
> 936-960.  The important idea is that teachers implement inquiry according to
> their paradigm of education, and that often they call things inquiry even
> when it is not.  Essentially it is not possible to get educators to change
> their paradigm by just telling them it is not working.  A few rare
> individuals will do it, but the majority will not without extensive
> experience with the new paradigm.
>
> In addition there are powerful institutional pressures that prevent changes.
> I would suggest that what will work for the conventional educator will just
> be more of the same, and that to implement reformed pedagogy they also need
> to reform their paradigm.  The doctors who rejected the paradigm of
> cleanliness often never changed.  They just retired and the newer doctors
> with the new paradigm took over.
>
> John M. Clement
> Houston, TX
> > Not to mention that many of these 15-yr cycles include repackaged and/or
> > renamed 'new and improved' teaching methods we did 30 years ago. Many of
> > these packages are the same ole thing with new bells and whistles to
> > impress
> > the newbees.
> >
> > We all need to find a 'method' that works for us. Key words there "FOR
> > US".
> > If what you are doing ain't working, improve or change. If it IS working,
> > improve.
> >
> >
> > Daryl L. Taylor, Fizzix Guy
> > Greenwich HS, CT
> > PAEMST '96
> > International Internet Educator of the Year '03
> > NASA SEU Educator Ambassador
> > www.DarylScience.com

Joseph J. Bellina, Jr.               574-284-4662
Professor of Physics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
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