High school physics teachers:
Don't delay - take a Modeling Workshop THIS summer, before grants end.
1800 HS physics teachers have learned Modeling Instruction. Most prefer it
to conventional instruction. It corrects many weaknesses of the traditional
lecture-demonstration method, including fragmentation of knowledge, student
passivity, and persistence of naive beliefs about the physical world.
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Modeling Workshops in summer 2005 are listed alphabetically below, by
state. Workshops thoroughly treat the pedagogy and content for the
mechanics portion of a physics course, or for physical science. 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 was recognized in 2001 as an Exemplary K-12
science program and a Promising K-12 educational technology program by the
U.S. Dept. of Education.
Teachers receive stipends and/or tuition waivers, instructional
materials, sometimes free housing, at most workshops. (State-funded
workshops provide these only for in-state teachers.)
A Modeling Workshop can be an excellent investment for your school
because you can become a valuable resource for teaching science effectively
with technology!
For underprepared teachers, a Modeling Workshop provides content
remediation.
ARIZONA
Arizona State University - Tempe
Funded by the National Science Foundation for teachers nationwide. The last
summer of NSF funding!
PHS 530/PHY480: Methods of Physics Teaching I.
Full day Modeling Workshop in mechanics.
Choose June 13-July 1 or July 5-29
PHS 531: Methods of Physics Teaching II.
Full day Modeling Workshop in 2nd sem content.
Prerequisite: PHS 530
Choose June 13-July 1 for Modeling-adapted CASTLE electricity (Rich
McNamara) or microscopic models in E&M (Michael Crofton), or
July 6-28 for Mechanical Waves (Michael Crofton) or Models of Light (Tim
Burgess).
PHS 534: Methods of Teaching Physical Science (June 13-July 1 or July 5-Aug. 2)
Download the financial aid application at "ASU's Graduate Program for High
School Teachers ...": <http://modeling.asu.edu/MNS/MNS.html>
Contact <jane.jackson@asu.edu> if you have questions.
FLORIDA
Florida International University, Miami
Funded by the National Science Foundation
July, three weeks. Two modeling workshops.
Content: mechanics; 2nd semester topics
The mechanics workshop is prerequisite to the 2nd semester workshop.
Local teachers have priority, then Florida teachers, then teachers
nationwide. Math teachers are encouraged to participate too.
Contact Prof. Laird Kramer <Laird.Kramer@fiu.edu> for details.
Information at <http://modeling.fiu.edu>
GEORGIA (pending state funding)
Spelman College - Atlanta
Probable Dates: June 6 - 24
For high school physics teachers in metro Atlanta area, other areas of
Georgia as space is available. Out of state teachers can attend if space is
available.
Content: mechanics, aspects of cognitive and developmental
psychology as they relate to acquisition of physics concepts.
Peer leaders: Dr. Walter Snow, Janice Hudson
Contact Prof. Paul Camp <PCamp@spelman.edu> for details.
ILLINOIS (pending state funding)
Chicago
Three weeks.
For high school physics, physical science, and math teachers.
Content: Mechanics.
Peer leader: Jim Stankevitz
Contact Prof. Carl Wenning <wenning@phy.ilstu.edu> for details. (309) 438-2957.
KANSAS (pending state funding)
Fort Hays State University and
Emporia State University
Three weeks.
For middle school science and math teachers.
Content: Scientific thinking skills, structure of matter, energy, force,
and motion, all integrated with mathematics
Contact Earl Legleiter <eLegleiter@mcrel.org> for details.
MASSACHUSETTS (received state funding)
Bridgewater State College - Bridgewater
August 15 - 25, 2005.
For 40 high school and middle school teachers of physical science and
physics (3 sections of different paces)
Content: kinematics, introductory dynamics
Peer leaders: Louis Turner, Jamie Vesenka, Jeff Steinert
Participants must teach in Massachusetts.
Contact Dr. Jeff Williams <J7WILLIAMS@bridgew.edu>, 508-531-2081
NEW YORK
SUNY-Buffalo State College - New York
July 6 - 22, 2005
Content: electricity
For thirty HS Physics teachers. New York teachers have priority.
PHY 622: Powerful Ideas and Quantitative Modeling in Electricity &
Magnetism (6 credits)
Instructors: Dan MacIsaac/Chris Filkins
Contact Dan MacIsaac <macisadl@buffalostate.edu>, 716-878-3802
Limited scholarship funds are available (see the site).
See also other SUNY-BSC Summer Physics Teachers' Academy courses
<http://PhysicsEd.BuffaloState.edu>
OHIO (pending state funding)
The Ohio State University - Columbus
For 24 central Ohio-area teachers of physical science and/or physics, who
have taken at least one modeling workshop.
June 13 - July 1, 2005, held at Thomas Worthington High School
Content: Energy and other physical science topics for Ohio graduation test.
Leaders: Jason Cervenec, Kathy Harper (OSU), Andrew Heckler (OSU)
(6 free graduate credits in physics,free lunches, classroom equipment).
Contact Dr. Kathy Harper <harper.217@osu.edu> for details.
WISCONSIN (received state funding)
University of Wisconsin - Oshkosh (north of Milwaukee)
June 13 - July 1, 2005.
For High School teachers of physics and physical science.
Content: math modeling, particle model of light, some chemistry models.
Peer leaders: Jeff Elmer, Patricia Westphal, Jim Schmitt.
3 semester hours graduate credit. Free tuition for Wisconsin teachers.
$1000 for classroom technology.
Free room & board on UWO campus.
2 days follow-up during the academic year.
Out of state teachers can attend if space is available.
Vernier MBL probes will be used with computers.
Contact Prof. Mark J Lattery <lattery@uwosh.edu>, (920)424-7105
Download the application at
<http://planck.phys.uwosh.edu/lattery/mps/mps.htm>
DEADLINE: MARCH 1
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For information on Modeling Instruction, visit <http://modeling.asu.edu>.
QUOTES BY TEACHERS:
Jane Nelson, Orlando, FL (Disney high school math/science awardee,
Presidential science awardee):
In thirty years of teaching, nothing has impacted my teaching, since my
first days of learning how to teach science in undergraduate school, like
the ideas I've learned in modeling. It is the best idea to enter the
teaching methods I have ever seen. The ideas are so practical, but have
not been made real before. I thank David Hestenes from the bottom of my
heart for adding a new and wonderful dimension to my teaching.
Louis Turner, retired from Western Reserve Academy, Ohio:
I have changed everything I do in the classroom. Modeling Instruction
moves students in the direction of being independent learners, and it puts
the responsibility for learning where it belongs--on the students.
Brad Katuna, north of San Francisco:
I'm a better teacher after modeling, I like my job more, I feel the kids
walk away with real transferable skills, I feel better about what I do.
Roger John Siegel, Atlanta, Georgia:
I love modeling!
Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2004
From: Larry Dukerich (Modeling Workshop leader in Mesa, AZ)
Students who are used to having the instructor serve as the
dispenser of information are sometimes quite unhappy when they have to
think for themselves. Yet in schools which have developed a modeling
tradition, the students get annoyed/frustrated when the mode of instruction
returns to the standard lecture/demo.
Date: Mon, 05 May 2003
From: Glenn Wagner (Ontario, Canada)
Modeling Instruction is a TERRIFIC program and I highly recommend it.
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Jane Jackson, Co-Director, Modeling Instruction Program
Box 871504, Dept.of Physics & Astronomy,ASU,Tempe,AZ 85287
480-965-8438/fax:965-7331 <http://modeling.asu.edu>
"Scientists explore the physical world for REPRODUCIBLE
PATTERNS, which they represent by MODELS and organize
into THEORIES according to LAWS." - David Hestenes
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