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[Phys-l] openings in Modeling Workshops for HS physics, chem, phys sci teachers

(please forward to high school teachers)

ANNOUNCEMENT UPDATE: MODELING WORKSHOPS
May 28, 2010
Modeling Workshops in high school physics, chemistry, and/or physical science will be held in summer 2010 in 25 states.

These locations still have openings, to the best of my knowledge: Alabama, Miami FL, Georgia, Chicago IL, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, New Orleans LA, Maine, Minneapolis MN, New Jersey, Albuquerque NM, New York, Pittsburgh PA, northern Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Dallas TX, Spokane WA, and Wisconsin. (And 3 days in San Diego.)

Modeling Workshops in 11th grade biology will be held in Pittsburgh PA and Tennessee, for teachers in Physics First/Capstone Biology sequences.

(Other workshop sites where the inverted sequence is used by peer leaders are Alabama, New Orleans, Missouri, and New Jersey. All workshops are open to teachers in any science course sequence.)

Visit http://modeling.asu.edu for details. Click on "Modeling Workshops Nationwide in Summer 2010".
http://modeling.asu.edu/MW_nation.html


Modeling Workshops are peer-led. Content is reorganized around basic models to increase its structural coherence. Participants are supplied with a complete set of course materials and work through activities alternately in the roles of student or teacher, as they practice techniques of guided inquiry and cooperative learning.

Modeling Instruction is one of two K-12 science programs designated by the U.S. Department of Education as EXEMPLARY.

Stipends at most sites, usually for in-state teachers.
Graduate credit available at some sites.

Comments by teachers:
* In thirty years of teaching, nothing has impacted my teaching like the ideas I've learned in modeling. It is the best idea to enter the teaching methods I have ever seen. (Jane Nelson, retired national leader in physics teaching)
* Most useful course I have taken since becoming a teacher.
* Thanks to taking physics modeling course work, I am highly qualified in physics.
* In the one year that I have been modeling, I have seen wonderful results.
* Modeling has changed the fundamental way I teach. I believe eventually, maybe even in our lifetimes, all science will be taught this way.
* We have had 3 physics teachers and 5 chemistry teachers enhance their professional development at your ASU modeling workshops. Modeling has made a world of difference in our science courses.