Force and Motion: Pedagogical Content Knowledge for Teaching Physics

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  • 8 Sequences
  • Introductive Level
  • Starts on October 26, 2015
  • Ends on December 17, 2015

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Syllabus

  • Fluency with physics concepts appropriate for high school teaching
  • Enhanced pedagogical content knowledge, to make you a more effective teacher
  • Some engineering experience, in designing and building an experiment
  • Knowledge of research-based methods and of the education research literature, to help your students learn physics

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Instructors

  • Andrew Duffy
  • Peter Garik

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