[Phys-l] update: Modeling Workshops this summer: HS physics, chem, phys sci, biology teachers

[jane.jackson@asu.edu (Jane Jackson)]

(Please forward to high school science teachers.)

     ANNOUNCEMENT: MODELING WORKSHOPS
          Feb. 17, 2012
Modeling Workshops in high school physics, chemistry, and/or physical 
science will be held in summer 2012 at  ~28 sites in ~20 states.

These locations will offer workshops: 4 in Tempe AZ, San Francisco 
Bay area, 2 in Miami FL, 2 in Chicago IL, multiple locations in 
Indiana;  Iowa, Kansas, southern Maine, Detroit MI, Winona MN, Omaha 
NE, 3 in southern New Jersey, Albuquerque NM, 2 in Buffalo NY, 3 in 
North Carolina, 3 in Columbus OH, Bowling Green OH, 5 in central & 
northern Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, South Dakota, 3 in Tennessee, 
Houston TX, Virginia, and 3 in Oshkosh WI (and possibly others).

A Modeling Workshop in 9th - 10th grade biology will be held in New Jersey.

Visit http://modeling.asu.edu for details. Click on "Modeling 
Workshops Nationwide in Summer 2011".
         http://modeling.asu.edu/MW_nation.html

Some of these Modeling Workshops are described in detail at 
http://www.ptec.org/pd .


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.

Some sites have stipends, usually for in-state teachers.
Graduate credit is available at most 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.
*  Modeling has changed the fundamental way I teach. I believe 
eventually, maybe even in our lifetimes, all science will be taught 
this way.

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cheers,
Jane
Jane Jackson, Co-Director, Modeling Instruction Program
Box 871504, Dept.of Physics, ASU, Tempe, AZ 85287
480-965-8438/fax:965-7565 http://modeling.asu.edu
Jane.Jackson@asu.edu
   For 21 years, the Modeling Instruction Program has been
helping teachers attain knowledge and skills needed
to benefit their students. Modeling Instruction is
designated as an Exemplary K-12 science program
by the U.S. Department of Education.