[neact] Fwd: Professional Development opportunity Summer 2015 - Modeling instruction
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This is particularly valuable for chemistry teachers, even though it began in
physics.
WCK
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instruction
Fellow teachers:
fyi
Dawn Meredith
UNH Physics
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From: Gary Garber <ggarber@xxxxxx>
Subject: Fwd: Professional Development opportunity Summer 2015
Date: December 27, 2014 at 8:17:48 PM EST
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Dear leaders of the science education community,
We have compiled the advertisement (see below) for theModeling™ workshops we
hope will be offered for the summer of 2015. We wouldappreciate it if you can
share it with your members.
If you have questions, comments or other remarks, pleasecontact me. If you are
no longer the contact person, please inform me so I canapproach the correct
contact person and update my database wendy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Thank you for all you do for the science educationcommunity,
Sincerely,
Wendy
Wendy Hehemann
American Modeling Teachers Association
Modeling Workshop and Outreach Coordinator
wendy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
gheheman@xxxxxxx
480-854-4764
www.modelinginstruction.org
Modeling™ Instruction, under development since 1990 underthe leadership of
David Hestenes (Emeritus Professor of Physics, Arizona StateUniversity),
corrects many weaknesses of the traditional lecture-demonstrationmethod,
including fragmentation of knowledge, student passivity, andpersistence of
naive beliefs about the physical world. Unlike the traditionalapproach, in
which students wade through an endless stream of seeminglyunrelated topics,
Modeling ™Instruction organizes the course around a smallnumber of scientific
models, thus making the course coherent. It appliesstructured inquiry
techniques to the teaching of basic skills and practices inmathematical
modeling, proportional reasoning, quantitative estimation andtechnology-enabled
data collection and analysis.
Each summer, Modeling™ workshops are held all over thecountry. In 2014, almost
1200 teachers took one of the 75+ workshops in 20states. The content areas of
the workshops (depending on location) aremechanics (physics I), E&M, CASTLE,
waves, light (physics II), chemistry Iand II, biology, physical science, and we
are proud to now offer workshopsespecially geared to middle school science
teachers!
On the website of the American Modeling Teachers Association(AMTA) we have a
list of workshops we hope will be offered next summer, theinformation is
subject to change so check the site every so often to see if nowyour state
offers a Modeling™ workshop! http://modelinginstruction.org/workshops-2015/
Workshops are scheduled for the following states:
Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Connecticut,Florida, Georgia, Illinois,
Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maine,Michigan, Minnesota, New
Jersey, new York, Ohio, South Carolina, and Texas.Internationally in Hong Kong.
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