Title: Advanced and Intermediate Instructional Labs
Description: This workshop is appropriate for college and university instructional laboratory developers. At each of six stations, presenters will demonstrate an approach to an advanced or intermediate laboratory exercise. Each presenter will show and discuss the apparatus and techniques used. Attendees will cycle through the stations and have an opportunity to use the apparatus. Handouts will be provided containing sample data and ideas on how to construct or where to purchase the apparatus.
Organizer: Van D. Bistrow
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Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Laboratories
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Apparatus

Title: Curricular Materials for Using Visualization in Teaching Introductory E&M
Description: Electromagnetism is one of the most troublesome topics for students to learn. In this workshop, we present an integrated introductory electricity and magnetism curriculum that features three-dimensional visualizations embedded in a guided inquiry environment. Workshop participants will explore a suite of stunning visualizations [http://web.mit.edu/8.02t/www/802TEAL3D/] and will be actively engaged in group work assignments that bridge a pictoral representation to a facet of knowledge. Our goal is to introduce physics educators to these visually enhanced curricular materials and to encourage physicists everywhere to adopt some of these learning modules in their classrooms. Supported under NSF Grant DUE-0618558.
Organizer: John Belcher
Co-organizer: Carolann Koleci, Sahana Murthy, Peter Dourmashkin, Jennifer George-Palilonis
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Research in Physics Education
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Title: Designing a Diagnostic Learning Environment: A Workshop for Teacher Educators
Description: While many teachers engage in frequent assessment, typically this means that they identify whether the student has the "right" idea, and if not, the instruction presents more of the right idea. A diagnostic learning environment is one in which assessments are used for formative purposes, i.e., to identify the fine structure of students' understanding and reasoning, and to help the teacher decide which aspects of student thinking might be troublesome so that she/he may address specific student ideas with targeted instruction. To employ formative assessment effectively, teachers need deep subject matter knowledge coupled with robust pedagogical content knowledge. Participants of this workshop will experience a diagnostic learning environment and learn about issues that arise in setting up teacher professional preparation programs that are focused on formative assessment. In addition, participants will learn about the Diagnoser Project's free instructional tools to help diagnose pre-college student thinking and guide instructional decisions.
Organizer: Stamatis Vokos
Co-organizer: Lane Seeley and Pam Kraus
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Research in Physics Education
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Teacher Preparation

Title: Developing Physics Teacher Knowledge
Description: Lee Shulman identified pedagogical content knowledge (PCK) as a necessary component of teacher knowledge -- a blend of content and pedagogy that distinguishes the understanding of a content specialist from that of the pedagogue. PCK involves knowing students' original ideas and potential difficulties, alternative ways to represent those ideas, and various effective instructional and assessment methods within a particular discipline. What constitutes physics PCK and how can prospective and practicing physics teachers construct and improve theirs? What specific activities help physics teachers develop their PCK? How does one assess physics PCK? In this interactive workshop participants will tackle the above questions, reflect on their own PCK, and develop some strategies for incorporating the building of teacher PCK into their physics courses, methods courses, and teacher preparation programs. The workshop is intended for those who wish to improve their own PCK and for those who are involved in teacher preparation.
Organizer: Eugenia Etkina
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Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Teacher Preparation
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Title: Effectively Addressing Diversity in Science Courses: Resources and Examples
Description: Engage in four separate activities and leave with an increased awareness of and access to approaches and resources to improve your ability to embrace diversity in your undergraduate and graduate science classrooms. We will work through complex issues of diversity and learn how to address them effectively.
Organizer: Christine Pfund
Co-organizer: Brett Underwood
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Minorities in Physics
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Title: EJS and Tipers
Description: TIPERs (Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research) are a type of problem that is designed to probe student conceptual understanding and help students build their problem-solving skills. Easy Java Simulations (EJS) are modeling and authoring tools that can be used to create dynamical simulations of physical phenomena for teaching. These simulations can be used for computer demonstrations or virtual laboratories, or serve as programming examples and tasks for computational physics. These two pedagogical tools fit together to provide enhanced interactive engagement for students in the classroom. Participants in this workshop will learn how to use and design TIPERs exercises using EJS for their own students.
Organizer: Tom O'Kuma
Co-organizer: Karim Diff, Anne J. Cox
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in Two-Year Colleges
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Title: Energy in the 21st Century
Description: We have found that engaging students in predictions of what form and how much energy will be used in the future is a very successful way to generate enthusiasm and further investigation of physics. Participants of this workshop will be introduced by way of experience to two different group projects that involve designing energy systems. These modeling exercises look at past energy consumption patterns and develop a plan for energy usage in the 21st Century. Other considerations such as population, costs and efficiencies are also used to further expand the discussion and decision making that takes place.
Organizer: Pat Keefe
Co-organizer: Greg Mulder
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in Two-Year Colleges
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Science Education for the Public

Title: Exploring Atoms & Molecule Using Molecular Workbench
Description: This workshop will focus on using, customizing, and authoring with the Molecular Workbench, a free, open source software environment based on molecular dynamics (http://mw.concord.org). MW is used to create a wide range of learning activities based on the atomic-scale mechanisms of basic phenomena in physics. MW has some unique features including chemical bonding, photon-matter interactions, and smart surfaces, so it can produce a very wide range of emergent phenomena such as phase changes, latent heat, diffusion, solubility, osmosis, and black body radiation. The MW platform can be used to create complete learning activities that consist of linked multimedia pages that include MW models. Students can save their productions in an electronic portfolio, create a report, and submit it for grading. Hundreds of activities for college and pre-college science courses have been created and tested that use MW, including a group that supports a "Physics First" curriculum and another for technicians.
Organizer: Robert Tinker
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Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Educational Technologies
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Title: Exploring Easy and Effective Ways to Use PhET's Web-based Interactive Simulations in your Physics Course
Description: The Physics Education Technology (PhET) Project has developed more than 65 simulations for teaching and learning introductory physics at the high school and college levels. These research-based simulations create animated, interactive, game-like environments that are designed to engage students in active thinking, encourage experimentation, and help develop visual and conceptual models of physical phenomena, emphasizing their connections to everyday life. The simulations are free, and can be run from the PhET website (http://phet.colorado.edu) or downloaded to a local computer for off-line use. In this workshop, participants will work with these simulations and explore how they can be used effectively in lecture, lab, and as part of homework assignments to improve both student learning and engagement.
Organizer: Katherine Perkins
Co-organizer: Wendy Adams, Noah Finkelstein, and Archie Paulson
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Educational Technologies
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Research in Physics Education

Title: Falsification Labs
Description: Verification labs are a staple in many physics courses, but what about falsification? It is important for students to be able to recognize and test wrong ideas as well as right ones. In this workshop, we will present a number of laboratory exercises based on plausible-but-wrong theories that can be tested in a typical lab period. All of the exercises can be performed with minimal equipment, and are appropriate for high school or introductory college physics labs. Participants will have an opportunity to try the experiments, experience some of the pitfalls involved, and develop similar experiments of their own.
Organizer: Eric Ayars
Co-organizer: Tim Erickson
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Laboratories
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Title: Historical Experiments in the Classroom
Description: Every experiment in physics education contains an historical perspective that is usually neglected in favor of the practical elements of the experiment. Consequently, students lack a context for the performance of the experiment. In this workshop, we will re-introduce the context of history back into student experimentation with the use of the interrupted storyline. Many examples including Ohm's law and Rumford's experiments on heat will be presented and participants will experiment with simple apparatus that can easily be constructed to foster an historical approach to teaching physics.
Organizer: Donald E. Metz
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Sponsoring Committee: Committee on History & Philosophy of Physics
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Title: Inquiry-Based Learning for High School Teachers
Description: This is a hands-on workshop designed for teachers interested in using curricular materials that will engage their students in inquiry-based active learning. Participants will work with activities from kinematics, dynamics, energy and optics from the updated Activity-Based Physics High School CD (ABP HSCD). These student-centered modules are based on the outcomes of physics education research and are linked to the national standards. They make extensive use of computers for data collection and analysis using probes and interfaces and/or video analysis. The outcome of this approach is that students learn physics by doing physics. The curricula on the ABP HSCD include: RealTime Physics, Tools for Scientific Thinking, Workshop Physics and Interactive Lecture Demonstrations. The data acquisition equipment and software used in this workshop are compatible with both Mac and Windows computers and utilize both PASCO and Vernier Software systems.
Organizer: Maxine C. Willis
Co-organizer: Priscilla Laws and Marty Baumberger
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in High Schools
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Title: InterActions in Physical Science: A Coordinated Set of Curriculum and Professional Development Materials for Inquiry-Based Middle School Students and Teachers
Description: InterActions in Physical Science is an NSF-supported, standards-based, guided inquiry physical science curriculum that was built using the research on the teaching and learning of science. In this workshop, participants will be introduced to the InterActions curriculum, experience several activities, watch and analyze video from InterActions classrooms, and work through part of the professional development materials that support teachers and help students do inquiry at the middle-school level. Emphasis will be placed on how these materials can be used to help students understand the nature of scientific inquiry and how scientists make and support their claims. Time will also be scheduled to discuss strategies of how to engage pre-high school students in interactive learning environments.
Organizer: Robert H. Poel
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Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in Pre-High School Education
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Title: Introductory Instructional Labs
Description: This workshop is appropriate for college and university instructional laboratory developers. At each of six stations, presenters will demonstrate an approach to an introductory laboratory exercise. Each presenter will show and discuss the apparatus and techniques used. Attendees will cycle through the stations and have an opportunity to use the apparatus. Handouts will be provided containing sample data and ideas on how to construct or where to purchase the apparatus.
Organizer: Van D. Bistrow
Co-organizer:
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Laboratories
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Apparatus

Title: Learning Physics While Practicing Science
Description: Participants will learn how to modify introductory physics courses to help students acquire a good conceptual foundation, apply this knowledge effectively in problem solving, and develop the science process abilities needed for real-life work. We provide tested curriculum materials including: The Physics Active Learning Guide with 30 or more activities per textbook chapter for use with any textbook in lectures, recitations and homework; (b) a CD with more than 200 videotaped experiments and associated questions for use in lectures, recitations, laboratories, and homework; and (c) a set of labs with inexpensive equipment that can be used to construct, test, and apply concepts to solve practical problems. During the workshop, we will illustrate how to use the materials not only in college and high school physics courses, but also in courses for future physics teachers to have an explicit emphasis on using the processes of science and various cognitive strategies.
Organizer: Eugenia Etkina
Co-organizer: Alan Van Heuvelen
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Teacher Preparation

Title: Lecture Demonstrations I
Description: Topics in this workshop cover the standard first semester of physics instruction from Mechanics to Thermal. It is taught by an experienced team of lecture demonstrators. The format allows for and encourages interplay between instructors and participants. It is recommended that both Lecture Demonstrations I and II be taken as this will cover the complete year of demonstrations needed for a typical course. The demonstrations used and exhibited will be based on, but not limited to, the PIRA top 200 list of demonstrations. See http://www.pira-online.org for more info on this list. Please note that this workshop is intended to expose as many demonstrations and ideas as possible to the participants. Since we will be doing approximately 100 demos during this workshop, time restraints DO NOT allow for extensive or in-depth discussions of each demonstration. We will make every effort to answer all questions and concerns either during or after the workshop.
Organizer: Dale Stille
Co-organizer: Sam Sampere
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Apparatus
Co-sponsoring Committee:

Title: Lecture Demonstrations II
Description: Topics in this workshop cover the standard second semester of physics instruction from Electricity & Magnetism through Modern Physics with some Astronomy. It is taught by an experienced team of lecture demonstrators. The format allows for and encourages interplay between instructors and participants. It is recommended that both Lecture Demonstrations 1 and 2 be taken as this will cover the complete year of demonstrations needed for a typical course. The demonstrations used and exhibited will be based on, but not limited to, the PIRA top 200 list of demonstrations. See http://www.pira-online.org for more info on this list. Please note that this workshop is intended to expose as many demonstrations and ideas as possible to the participants. Since we will be doing approximately 100 demos during this workshop, time restraints DO NOT allow for extensive or in-depth discussions of each demonstration. We will make every effort to answer all questions and concerns either during or after the workshop.
Organizer: Dale Stille
Co-organizer: Sam Sampere
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Apparatus
Co-sponsoring Committee:

Title: Low-Cost High School Physics Labs
Description: Do you want to increase the time your students spend exploring without blowing your budget? If so, then this workshop is for you. You will leave the workshop with a wealth of experiments you can implement as soon as you get back to school. These experiments will employ everyday items or equipment you already have gathering dust in your storeroom. We will make pieces of equipment during the workshop that you can take home with you. This workshop will not only present the labs, but give participants the opportunity to "try out" each lab. The labs will cover many topics from waves to electricity to mechanics. The emphasis of the labs will be good physics without costly equipment.
Organizer: Diane Riendeau
Co-organizer: Shannon Mandel and Jim Hicks
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in High Schools
Co-sponsoring Committee:

Title: Mining the Hidden Web
Description: The Internet and the World Wide Web are growing at an amazing rate. This tutorial is designed to give participants skills for fast, efficient searching of the Internet. In this digital age, skill in evaluating the information one finds on the Internet is essential. This tutorial will also offer some guidelines for evaluating information.
Organizer: Pat Viele
Co-organizer:
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Professional Concerns
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education and Committee on Graduate Education in Physics

Title: Negotiating a Successful Science Career
Description: This workshop will discuss ways to successfully navigate the job market.
Organizer: Marina Milner-Bolotin
Co-organizer:
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Women in Physics
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Professional Concerns

Title: New Physics at the LHC and in Your Classroom
Description: The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN is already ramping up. With a center-of-mass energy of 14 TeV, it is expected to produce new science at the frontiers of particle physics. High school teachers and students can and should be involved in ways that enhance classroom learning. In this workshop, you will learn about LHC physics and about LHC-related investigations that you can bring to your students. The emphasis will be on what can work in your classroom so that students are exposed to particle physics at the horizon of new discovery in a way that engages the very skills, methods, and concepts that you cover in class.
Organizer: Kenneth Cecire
Co-organizer: Kris Whelan
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in High Schools
Co-sponsoring Committee:

Title: Newtonian TIPERs
Description: This workshop will deal with various alternative task formats that can be used to make instructional materials that impact and improve student learning and understanding of physics concepts in mechanics. These exercises are based, in part, on efforts in Physics Education Research and thus are called TIPERs (Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research). Such tasks support active learning approaches and can be easily incorporated into instruction in small pieces. This workshop will feature new TIPERs in area of mechanics but the techniques can be deployed in all areas of physics. The first part of the workshop will explore various formats, their characteristics, and how they can be used. Participants will work in groups to develop a set of TIPERs that address a concept, principle, or relationship in mechanics. These TIPERs sets will be shared with and critiqued by the group. This workshop will also include new nTIPER "clickers." This work is supported in part by a CCLI grant #0632963 from the Division of Undergraduate Education of the National Science Foundation.
Organizer: Curtis J Hieggelke
Co-organizer: Steve Kanim
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in Two-Year Colleges
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Research in Physics Education

Title: Open Source Physics-Statistical and Thermal Physics
Description: This workshop presents recently developed computer-based curricular material that helps to improve the understanding of statistical and thermal physics concepts and that makes many inaccessible topics accessible to students. Participants will receive a CD containing curricular material from the Statistical and Thermal Physics (STP) project as well as a collection of ready to run Java programs from the Open Source Physics (OSP) project. All programs are feely distributable under the GNU GPL license. This workshop will benefit anyone teaching statistical and thermal physics as well as computational physicists wishing to adopt the OSP Java libraries for their own teaching and research. We will discuss the general pedagogical and technical issues in the design of interactive computer-based tutorials as well as how OSP programs can be adapted to your local institution. Information can be obtained from . Partial funding for this work was obtained through NSF grant DUE-0442581.
Organizer: Wolfgang Christian
Co-organizer: Mario Belloni, Anne Cox, Harvey Gould, Jan Tobochnik
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Educational Technologies
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education

Title: Photon Quantum Mechanical Labs
Description: This is a workshop aimed at introducing the theoretical and the practical aspects of a new type of experiment with correlated photons that we have developed [1,2]. The experiments illustrate fundamental concepts of quantum mechanics at the undergraduate level. This four-hour workshop will involve discussions on the fundamentals of the experiments and our experience in implementing them for curricular purposes. It will include a discussion on equipment and costs. [1]Thorn et al. Am. J. Phys. 72, 1210 (2004); [2] Galvez et el. Am J. Phys 73, 127 (2005).
Organizer: Enrique J Galvez
Co-organizer: Mark Beck
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Apparatus
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Laboratories

Title: Physics and Performance
Description: This workshop is intended for those who want to take a Physics Road show a step further by adding performance to physics presentations. Stanley Micklavzina has been incorporating dance, circus art, poetry, music, and story telling into public physics demonstration shows. Wendy Sadler runs her own science communication company in the U.K. called "science made simple," (www.sciencemadesimple.co.uk) promoting physics and engineering to schools and public audiences. One performance-based approach has recently been touring the U.K. and Europe with great success. Acting coach Colin Funk is well known for his ability to artfully assist individuals, teams, and organizations to enhance their capacity for creativity and innovation. This workshop will be aimed at developing skills, ideas, and themes for the stage. Successful output product(s) of this workshop will be performed at the Demonstration Show Tuesday night. Bring your ideas and maybe even a favorite stage demo and together lets develop a show!
Organizer: Stanley J. Micklavzina
Co-organizer: Wendy Sadler and Colin Funk
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Science Education for the Public
Co-sponsoring Committee:

Title: Physics and Toys II: Energy, Momentum, Electricity and Magnetism
Description: This hands-on workshop is designed for teachers at all levels in search of fun physics demonstrations, lab experiments, and interactive materials, through the use of ordinary children's toys. More than 50 toys will be demonstrated, and the physical principles related to these toys will be discussed. This workshop will concentrate on toys that illustrate the concepts of kinetic and potential energy, linear and angular momentum, electricity and magnetism, pressure and temperature, and properties of materials. You will have the opportunity to participate in both qualitative and quantitative investigations using some of these toys. The workshop leaders have found that toys can be utilized at all grade levels from kindergarten through college by varying the sophistication of the analysis. The same toys can also be used for informal presentations to public groups of all ages.
Organizer: Beverley A. P. Taylor
Co-organizer: Ray Turner
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in Pre-High School Education
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Science Education for the Public

Title: Piaget Beyond Piaget: At the Heart of Inquiry
Description: In the late 1970s the first AAPT workshop introduced applications of Piaget's ideas to physics teaching. For most, Piaget's organization of his data into stages of reasoning explained student difficulties with physics materials. Satisfied, many did not look further. This workshop will draw the participant beyond stages directly into Piaget's theory of cognitive development, how and why people develop in their understanding of the world. The participant will learn about Piaget's equilibration theory. This theory challenges the traditional view of teaching. In the style of his experimental method, participants will examine classroom evidence of student understanding of physical phenomena. Instructional practices consistent with the theory and evidence of their spectacular effect will be considered. A take-home supplement to the extensive workshop manual will include activities on stages of reasoning as identified by Piaget and co-workers.
Organizer: Dewey I Dykstra, Jr.
Co-organizer:
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in Pre-High School Education
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Teacher Preparation

Title: Preparing Pre-College Teachers to Teach Physics by Inquiry
Description: This workshop focuses on how college and university physics faculty can contribute to the professional development of pre-college (K-12) teachers. Participants will have an opportunity to gain hands-on experience with Physics by Inquiry(1), instructional materials designed to provide teachers with the background needed to teach physics and physical science as a process of inquiry. Excerpts from a video produced by WGBH will be used to illustrate interactions between teachers and instructors during a course based on these instructional materials.(2) Participants will also gain an understanding of how physics education research has guided the design of the curriculum. In addition, there will be a discussion of various intellectual and practical issues. Volumes I and II will be provided to participants. (1) L. C. McDermott and the Physics Education Group at the University of Washington, Physics by Inquiry: An Introduction to Physics and Physical Science, Volumes I and II (Wiley, New York, 1996). Development was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation. (2) Physics by Inquiry: A Video Resource (WGBH, Boston, 2000). Development was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation.
Organizer: Lillian C. McDermott
Co-organizer:
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Research in Physics Education
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Teacher Preparation

Title: Research-Based Alternatives to Problem Solving in General Physics
Description: Accumulating research on problem solving in physics clearly indicates that traditional, end-of-chapter exercises in physics texts are not useful and may actually hinder students' learning of important physics concepts. The research also raises questions about the efficacy of such tasks for helping students develop "problem solving skills." In light of these results the question is: What alternative tasks can we use to help students develop problem solving skills and a conceptual understanding? This workshop will review the research and then provide examples of several alternative tasks and their use. Participants will also get practice writing alternative problems for use in their own classrooms.
Organizer: Kathleen A. Harper
Co-organizer: Thomas M. Foster, David P. Maloney
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Research in Physics Education
Co-sponsoring Committee:

Title: Teaching Astronomy with Technology
Description: This workshop will survey a variety of educational technologies useful for engaging students in both high school and introductory college classrooms. Special emphasis will be placed on simulation usage and peer instruction. Participants will work on computers gaining familiarity with the astrophysical simulations of the Nebraska Astronomy Applet Project (NAAP) and its web-based assessment capabilities. Participants will also design peer instruction sequences to be used in the classroom using the computer-based modules of the ClassAction Project. A lighter emphasis will be placed on using computerized ranking tasks and on comparing available options for online homework, astronomy laboratories, and desktop planetariums. All participants will receive NAAP, ClassAction, and computerized ranking task materials on CD.
Organizer: Kevin M. Lee
Co-organizer: David Kriegler and Todd Young
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Space Science and Astronomy
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Title: TELS - an Online Inquiry-Based Environment for Modeling and Simulation
Description: Come and learn how you can engage your students in context-rich scenarios within inquiry-driven curriculum modules that use powerful modeling and simulation tools. Appropriate for both high school honors, AP, IB and introductory college courses, the TELS modules are based on an extensive research base in using visualization to help students learn abstract topics in science. Modules in high school chemistry and middle school physical science will also be showcased. Participants will gain hands-on experience with the modules and the lessons learned from existing implementations in schools. This project is part of the larger TELS Center, http://telscenter.org/ and participants are encouraged to explore the learning environment at http://wise.berkeley.edu/.
Organizer: S. Raj Chaudhury
Co-organizer:
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Educational Technologies
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Title: The Classroom of the Future: Human Interaction in an Age of Technology
Description: Participants take part in five "miniclasses":1. Use of Reflective Writing to engage students before class. 2. Critical Thinking -- Feyerabend's view. 3. Use of Collaborative Groups to Promote Critical Thinking. 4. Critique: a writing tool to enhance Critical Thinking Skills. 5. The Course dossier: A supplement to or a replacement for a final essay/examination. Based upon my book Successful Science and Engineering Teaching in Colleges and Universities,<\i> this workshop utilizes research in the classroom that I have been conducting and publishing for many years using qualitative and quantitative methods. Participation in reflective writing as a self-dialogue between the learner's prior knowledge and new concepts in the text was consistently reported in interviews. Comparison of pre- and post-tests indicate that in doing written critiques, students are not only more likely to undergo conceptual change, but also increase their critical thinking skills and thus are led to reevaluate their entire conceptual framework.
Organizer: Calvin Kalman
Co-organizer:
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Research in Physics Education

Title: Tutorials in Introductory Physics: A Research-Based Approach to Increasing Student Learning
Description: Tutorials in Introductory Physics (1) is a set of instructional materials intended to supplement the lecture, textbook, and laboratory of a standard calculus-based or algebra-based introductory course. The tutorials are designed to address specific conceptual and reasoning difficulties that have been identified through research. In addition to providing hands-on experience with the curriculum, the workshop will include discussions of instructional strategies and results from assessments of student learning. Important aspects related to implementation of the tutorials will be covered, including preparation of graduate teaching assistants, undergraduate peer instructors, and post-docs. Copies of Tutorials in Introductory Physics will be provided to participants. (1) L.C. McDermott, P.S. Shaffer, and the Physics Education Group at the University of Washington, Tutorials in Introductory Physics, First Ed. (Prentice Hall, 2002). Development was supported, in part, by the National Science Foundation.
Organizer: Lillian C. McDermott
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Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Research in Physics Education
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Title: Using Research-based Curricula and Tools to Revitalize Your Introductory Course
Description: This hands-on workshop is designed for those who want to introduce active learning and computer tools into their introductory courses. We will introduce new approaches to teaching based on physics education research (PER) in lectures, labs, and recitations as well as studio and workshop environments. Among the approaches presented will be Interactive Lecture Demonstration (ILDs), Web-Based ILDs, RealTime Physics Labs, Activity Based Tutorials, Collaborative Problem-Solving Tutorials, Live Photo Assignments and Workshop Physics, as well as analytic modeling and video analysis tools. The computer tools used are available for both Macintosh and Windows computers. Results of studies on the effectiveness of these teaching strategies will also be presented. Current versions of the curricula, along with the book Teaching Physics with the Physics Suite, by E.F. Redish will be distributed. Partially supported by the National Science Foundation.
Organizer: David R Sokoloff
Co-organizer: Ronald Thornton and Priscilla Laws
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Research in Physics Education
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Educational Technologies

Title: Using RTOP to Improve Physics and Physical Science Teaching
Description: The Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) is a 25-item rubric that provides a percentile measure of the degree and type of student-centered, constructivist, inquiry-based, engagement in an instructional situation. RTOP scores correlate very highly with student conceptual gains. In this workshop, we will score video vignettes of teaching to learn how to use RTOP for guiding personal reflection and improvement and change of our own teaching; for mentoring peers, novice teachers and student teachers; and to establish a vocabulary for discussing reformed teaching practices. If you wish, you may bring a dvd of your own teaching to score.
Organizer: Kathleen A Falconer
Co-organizer: Paul Hickman and Dan MacIsaac
Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Teacher Preparation
Co-sponsoring Committee: Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education

Title: What Every Physics Teacher Should Know About Cognitive Research
Description: In the past few decades, cognitive reseach has made major progress in understanding how people learn. The understanding of cognition that has emerged from this research can be particularly useful for physics instruction. We will discuss and explore, in a language accessible to everybody, how the main findings of cognitive research can be applied to physics teaching and assessment. This workshop is guaranteed to be useful for all physics teachers. Those involved in physics education research are particularly encouraged to attend.
Organizer: Chandralekha Singh
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Sponsoring Committee: Committee on Research in Physics Education
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