ANNOUNCEMENT: MODELING WORKSHOPS
March 26, 2010
Modeling Workshops in high school physics, chemistry, and/or physical
science will be held in summer 2010 in 24 states: Arizona, Alabama,
Miami FL, Georgia, Chicago IL, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, New Orleans LA,
Maine, Michigan, Minneapolis MN, New Jersey, Albuquerque NM, New
York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pittsburgh PA, northern Pennsylvania,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Dallas TX, Spokane WA, and Wisconsin. (Also
in Missouri, pending funding.)
Modeling Workshops in 11th grade biology will be held in Pittsburgh
PA and Tennessee, for teachers in Physics First/Capstone Biology
sequences.
Modeling Workshops are peer-led. 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.