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All workshops
will be held Friday morning, April 7, 2006, 10:30-12:00. |
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Workshop
W1. "Guiding Instruction and Learning with an STS
Approach", Larry Kellerman and Jeff Constable, Illinois Central
College. This workshop will focus on the initial steps involved in
developing a project or unit in physics and/or physical science utilizing
the Science/Technology/Society approach. The workshop leaders will also
share materials and experiences from a recent state-funded STS project
with which they worked. Cost: $2 |
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Workshop W2.
"Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research (TIPERs)", Curtis
Hieggelke, Joliet Junior College. This workshop will feature
materials from a collection of new instructional materials for the topics
and concepts in electrostatics and magnetism. These materials employ
various TIPER formats that include: Ranking Tasks; Working Backwards
Tasks; What, if anything, is Wrong Tasks; Qualitative Reasoning Tasks; Bar
Chart Tasks; Conflicting Contentions Tasks; Linked Multiple Choice Tasks;
Changing Representations Tasks; and other types of alternative task
formats. The tasks are arranged into sets of issues or questions that
provide ways of asking the same or connected questions in different ways.
TIPERs can be readily deployed in an active learning mode as well as in a
traditional lecture mode. They require little student learning to handle
the task format, and these tasks can be used as tools for assessment. They
are designed to provide small incremental changes as they are implemented,
so teachers should find them fairly easy to incorporate into their
classes. Participants will be provided copies of published materials and a
CD on TIPERs
Cost: $2 |
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Workshop W3. "Cracker
Barrel Discussion - Recruitment, Preparation, and Retention of High School
Physics Teachers", David Sykes, Lincoln Land Community College
and Carl Wenning, Illinois State University. The discussion will
focus on recent developments in the topic areas. Participants will
review a tentative ISAAPT Web page and brochure, and work to develop a
recruitment handbook for science teachers to be disseminated statewide
working with other science teacher associations. Planning of future
activities will be addressed also. Free |