National Physics Misconception Workshops
Abstract
Why is Physics so difficult? Why do students fail? Misconceptions! While growing up in our natural world students develop intuitive ideas about nature. Many of these ideas are at odds with Physics and inhibit proper understanding. As teaching is interpreted by students through their old misconceptions, teaching gets misinterpreted. The cartoon shows how instructions from a policeman are misinterpreted in the lady's head.
The Science and Mathematics Education Institute of the University of San Carlos will organize a workshop to familiarize Physics lecturers with conceptual problems of students in introductory Physics courses and to demonstrate teaching methodologies designed to overcome these problems.
We invite Physics instructors/lecturers who are BS Physics, BSEd Physics, or BS Engineering graduates and who are (amongst others) teaching introductory Physics courses in High School and College. They should have at least two years of teaching experience and after the workshop they should be willing to work on the improvement of teaching and learning in the Physics courses in their respective institutions. Thirty (30) participants will be selected according to background and experience in order to get a mixed group with respect to background, experience and geography.
The workshop is based on courses that have been offered for the past six years at USC in the undergraduate and graduate Science Teacher Education programs. A 100-page book will be given the participants in the course.
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