I am in Pittsburgh at the American Physical Society (APS) March meeting until Tuesday. Today was a series of workshops and talks on Physics Education Research (PER) as part of the pre-APS meeting for the Physics Teachers Education Coalition (PTEC).
First, I arrived last night (Saturday) and spent the evening the same way I always spend [...]
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Tags: APS, Ed Prather, peer instruction, PER, PTEC, ranking tasks, Tutorials
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Next semester I will be attempting something new in our general education, conceptual physics course here at Longwood University. I plan on implementing Lillian McDermott’s Physics by Inquiry (PbI) … with a twist. The suggested enrollment for such a course is 20 students, with 1 instructor and 1-3 teaching assistants. My course next semester will [...]
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Tags: Lillian McDermott, PbI, PER, Physics by Inquiry, teaching assistant
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