Pathway –24/7 Online Pedagogical Assistance for Teachers of Physics
Dean Zollman & Brian Adrian
Kansas State University, 116 Cardwell Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506; 785-532-1824; fax 785-532-6806;
Scott Stevens, & Michael Christel Carnegie Mellon University
The Physics Teaching Web Advisory (Pathway) is a research and development effort to demonstrate the ability to address issues of many physics teachers via the Web. Pathway’s “Synthetic Interviews” are a unique way to engage inexperienced teachers in a natural language dialog about effective teaching of physics. These virtual conversations and related video materials are now providing pre-service and out-of-field in-service teachers with much needed professional development, and well-prepared teachers with new perspectives on teaching physics. In effect Pathway is a dynamic digital library and goes beyond creating a collection of teaching and learning materials. It provides continuously improving assistance and expertise for teachers, all of which is related to the results of contemporary physics education research. The database is a growing digital library and now contains about 6,000 different recorded answers and over 10,000 question/answer pairs. Pathway is available at http://www.physicspathway.org
Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants 0455772 & 0455813.
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Thursday, September 3, 2009
Zollman, Murphy Adrian,Stevens,Christel, AAPT Summer 2009
Pathway –24/7 Online Pedagogical Assistance for Teachers of Physics
Dean Zollman, Sytil Murphy & Brian Adrian
Kansas State University, 116 Cardwell Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506; 785-532-1824; fax 785-532-6806;
Scott Stevens, & Michael Christel Carnegie Mellon University
The Physics Teaching Web Advisory (Pathway) continues to expand its efforts to address pedagogical issues of many physics teachers via the Web. Pathway’s “Synthetic Interviews” engage inexperienced teachers in a natural language dialog about effective teaching of physics. These virtual conversations are now coupled to related graphical materials as well as the National Science Education Standards and comPADRE. Thus, pre-service and out-of-field in-service teachers can obtain the advice of experienced teachers and quick connections to other related material. The database is a growing digital library and now contains about 7,000 different recorded answers and over 10,000 question/answer pairs. Additional video material, including films from the old AAPT Film Repository, provides addition videos for classroom use. Pathway is available at http://www.physicspathway.org
Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants 0455772 & 0455813.
Dean Zollman, Sytil Murphy & Brian Adrian
Kansas State University, 116 Cardwell Hall, Manhattan, KS 66506; 785-532-1824; fax 785-532-6806;
Scott Stevens, & Michael Christel Carnegie Mellon University
The Physics Teaching Web Advisory (Pathway) continues to expand its efforts to address pedagogical issues of many physics teachers via the Web. Pathway’s “Synthetic Interviews” engage inexperienced teachers in a natural language dialog about effective teaching of physics. These virtual conversations are now coupled to related graphical materials as well as the National Science Education Standards and comPADRE. Thus, pre-service and out-of-field in-service teachers can obtain the advice of experienced teachers and quick connections to other related material. The database is a growing digital library and now contains about 7,000 different recorded answers and over 10,000 question/answer pairs. Additional video material, including films from the old AAPT Film Repository, provides addition videos for classroom use. Pathway is available at http://www.physicspathway.org
Supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants 0455772 & 0455813.
Wednesday, August 26, 2009
Zollman, Murphy, Stevens, Christel: GIREP-EPEC Plenary 2009
Web-based Pedagogical Assistance for Under-prepared Teachers of Physics Slides Paper
Dean Zollman & Sytil Murphy
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506; USA
Scott Stevens, & Michael Christel, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 152319 USA
Recently President Obama noted a serious concern about secondary science education in the United States. “Yet in high schools, more than 20 percent of students in math and more than 60 percent of students in chemistry and physics are taught by teachers without expertise in these fields.“ This problem is not new, so several years ago we begin a Web-based effort to address it. The Physics Teaching Web Advisory (Pathway) is an effort to demonstrate the ability to address pedagogical issues of many physics teachers via the Web. Pathway’s “Synthetic Interviews” are a unique way to engage inexperienced teachers in a natural language dialog about effective teaching of physics. These virtual conversations and related video materials are now providing pre-service and out-of-field in-service teachers with much needed professional development, and well-prepared teachers with new perspectives on teaching physics. The database is a growing digital library and now contains about 6,000 different recorded answers and over 10,000 question/answer pairs. An additional component is a collection of videos which can be used directly in the classroom. This collection includes both professional and teacher-produced videos. Unlike YouTube they are screened for usefulness before posting, but also will soon take advantage of the vast resources on YouTube and other similar sites. Pathway is available at http://www.physicspathway.org
Supported by the US National Science Foundation under Grants 0455772 & 0455813.
Dean Zollman & Sytil Murphy
Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS 66506; USA
Scott Stevens, & Michael Christel, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 152319 USA
Recently President Obama noted a serious concern about secondary science education in the United States. “Yet in high schools, more than 20 percent of students in math and more than 60 percent of students in chemistry and physics are taught by teachers without expertise in these fields.“ This problem is not new, so several years ago we begin a Web-based effort to address it. The Physics Teaching Web Advisory (Pathway) is an effort to demonstrate the ability to address pedagogical issues of many physics teachers via the Web. Pathway’s “Synthetic Interviews” are a unique way to engage inexperienced teachers in a natural language dialog about effective teaching of physics. These virtual conversations and related video materials are now providing pre-service and out-of-field in-service teachers with much needed professional development, and well-prepared teachers with new perspectives on teaching physics. The database is a growing digital library and now contains about 6,000 different recorded answers and over 10,000 question/answer pairs. An additional component is a collection of videos which can be used directly in the classroom. This collection includes both professional and teacher-produced videos. Unlike YouTube they are screened for usefulness before posting, but also will soon take advantage of the vast resources on YouTube and other similar sites. Pathway is available at http://www.physicspathway.org
Supported by the US National Science Foundation under Grants 0455772 & 0455813.
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