ANNOUNCEMENT: MODELING WORKSHOPS
March 8, 2011
Modeling Workshops in high school physics, chemistry, and/or physical
science will be held in summer 2011 in many states.
These locations will offer workshops: Tempe AZ, Miami FL, Chicago IL,
three cities in Indiana, Ames Iowa, two locations in Kansas, Maine,
Detroit MI, central and southern New Jersey, Buffalo New York,
Columbus OH, central PA, northern Pennsylvania, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Dallas TX, Seattle WA, Spokane WA, and Oshkosh WI.
A Modeling Workshop in 11th grade biology will be held in Tennessee,
for teachers in Physics First/Capstone Biology sequences.
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.