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

(please forward to high school teachers)

ANNOUNCEMENT: MODELING WORKSHOPS
March 28, 2011
Modeling Workshops in high school physics, chemistry, and/or physical science will be held in summer 2011 at 26 sites in 20 states.

These locations will offer workshops: Tempe AZ, Miami FL, Chicago IL, four cities in Indiana, Ames Iowa, two locations in Kansas, New Orleans LA, southern Maine, Detroit MI, Winona MN, central and southern New Jersey, Albuquerque NM, Buffalo NY, Columbus OH, central PA, northern Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Tennessee, Dallas TX, Seattle WA, and Oshkosh WI.

A Modeling Workshop in 11th grade biology will be held in Tennessee in July.

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

NEW! Most 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:
* David Braunschweig, Madison, WI (retired; consultant for Vernier Software & Technology) wrote: "After the first year of teaching using the modeling method, I wished I had learned about modeling years ago."
* In the one year that I have been modeling, I have seen wonderful results.
* [As a graduate student in physics], I discovered the modeling method
of instruction to be a rigorous approach to physics instruction on the high school level, and one that is consistent with the way physicists understand the universe. (Doug Vallette)
* 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. (Ray Howanski)