Teaching+Pedagogy

==**All those physics teachers who are thinking of how to change their teaching strategy so that students can benefit the most from it .......follow the following...it may change your life...............** ==


 * [|The modelling method of teaching High School physics]was developed at Arizona State University since 1990 under the leadership of David Hestenes, Professor of Physics. The program cultivates physics teachers as school experts on effective use of guided inquiry in science teaching, thereby providing schools and school districts with a valuable resource for broader reform. The Modeling Method corrects many weaknesses of the traditional lecture-demonstration method, including fragmentation of knowledge, student passivity, and persistence of naive beliefs about the physical world. Unlike the traditional approach, in which students wade through an endless stream of seemingly unrelated topics, the Modeling Method organizes the course around a small number of scientific models, thus making the course coherent.
 * [|Mark Schober's website] is a goldmine! It is a coherent course: includes modeling syllabus, worksheets, projects, readings, etc. for an entire year of high school physics (the 9 mechanics units, electric charge, sound & music, 3 models of light, and Six Flags Amusement Park physics). Accompanying each unit for the entire year are: key ideas, online simulations, practice problems, and relevant web links. Mark is a Modeling Workshop leader, and he helped develop the "models of light" workshop materials.