Re: [Phys-l] how to spend professional development money

[Brian Whatcott <betwys1@sbcglobal.net>]

At 10:00 AM 6/11/2008, you wrote:
> Just for fun:
> Let's assume you were a high school teacher teaching conceptual
> physics, AP Physics B and robotics.
> If you had $5,000 per year for three years ($15k total) to spend on
> professional development, how would you spend it?
>
> - Owen
> (applying for prof dev grant $)

Let's further suppose that there is some metric for measuring
success in teaching conceptual physics, AP Phys B, and Robotics,
listed by school. It would be interesting to visit with the top
three schools so measured, to check out the methods of the physics
teachers there.

And, my predilection; visit the folks at Cornell, MIT, etc.,
or even better, Clarendon lab, Cavendish lab, and Faraday's lab
at the Royal Institution, to revisit your roots.


Brian Whatcott    Altus OK    Eureka!