Bulletin of the American Physical Society
2020 PHYSTEC Conference
Saturday–Sunday, February 29–March 1 2020; Denver, Colorado
Session 7B: Periscope: Looking Into Learning in Best-Practices Physics Classrooms |
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Room: Sheraton Tower Court B |
Sunday, March 1, 2020 9:45AM - 11:00AM |
7B.00001: Periscope: Looking into learning in best-practices physics classrooms Invited Speaker: Rachel Scherr Periscope is a set of lessons that connects big questions of physics teaching and learning to authentic video episodes from best-practices physics classrooms. Periscope lessons are useful if you supervise learning assistants or teaching assistants, lead faculty development, seek to improve teaching in your department, or want to improve your own teaching. Periscope's primary aim is to help STEM instructors see authentic teaching events the way an expert educator does -- to develop their ``professional vision'' (C. Goodwin, American Anthropologist 96(3), 1994). This development of professional vision is particularly critical for educators in transformed STEM courses, who are expected to respond to students' ideas and interactions as they unfold moment to moment. By watching and discussing authentic teaching events, instructors enrich their experience with noticing and interpreting student behavior; practice applying lessons learned about teaching to actual teaching situations; train to listen to and watch students in their own classrooms by having them practice on video episodes of students in other classrooms; observe, discuss, and reflect on teaching situations similar to their own; develop pedagogical content knowledge; get a view of other institutions' transformed courses; and expand their vision of their own instructional improvement. Periscope is free to educators at physport.org/periscope. [Preview Abstract] |
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