Meeting: Lesson Study. What is lesson study?
Mission meeting.
Summer Organizational Meeting.
Marc McGuigin: "Education in the United States and No Child Left Behind." See his presentation.
Andrew Inglis on how universities can elevate the quality of primary education in the United States. Talk slides.
Andrew Duffy on textbook and curriculum development for Essential Physics.
Jon Neihof and Cara Battersby: summary of Jose Mestre's UMB talk on Physics Education Research and expert verses novice learning.
Rachele Dominguez on Tutorials in Introductory Physics from the University of Washington.UW tutorials.
Organizational Meeting.
Travel to University of Massachusetts Boston to attend the biannual Science Education Colloquium hosted by UMB's Center on Science and Math in Context (COSMIC) by Dr. Jose Mestre titled "Using Learning Research to Transform the Way We Teach Science".
Mark Dickison discussing the question: "Why teach physics to non-physics majors?".
James McNerney discussing the issue of cheating in physics classes.
Eric Pinnick discussing the paper: "Interactive-engagement versus traditional methods: A six-thousand-student survey of mechanics test data for introductory physics courses." You can find the paper here.
Organizational Meeting.