Teaching and Learning Physics weekly schedule

Week 14: Dec 1 & 3: Sustaining and Scaling Educational Transformation

Tues 12/1: class notes Challenges in Educational Transformation: Sustaining and Scaling reforms:

C. Henderson and M. Dancy, Increasing the Impact and Diffusion of STEM Education Innovations, A White Paper commissioned for the Characterizing the Impact and Diffusion of Engineering Education Innovations Forum, Feb 7-8, 2011. [Summary please]

(optional) A. Beach, C. Henderson, & N. Finkelstein, “Facilitating Change in Undergraduate STEM Education: Implications from an analytic review of literature: Change: The Mag. of Higher Lrning, 44 (6), 52–59, (2012) [what does an instructor need to know].

Grads: [with summary please]

S. Pollock and N.D. Finkelstein,"Sustaining Educational Reforms in Introductory Physics" Phys. Rev. ST Physics Ed. Research 4, 010110 (2008) [a piece on sustaining Tutorials in Phys 1110]

or

Henderson, C., Beach, A., & Finkelstein, N. (2011) Facilitating Change in Undergraduate STEM Instructional Practices: An Analytic Review of the Literature, Journal of Research in Science Teaching, 48 (8), 952-984 [theories of change.. a key piece in the broader literature now]

or

J. Corbo, D. Reinholz, N Finkelstein, M Dancy, S Deetz, “ A Framework for evidence-based change models and strategies in Physics Departments,” PRST PER (to appear Phys Rev) [review of change strategies & building on the above]

or

Chasteen, S. et al, 'Educational transformation in upper-division physics: The Science Education Initiative model, outcomes, and lessons learned," Phys Rev (2015) [experiment in scaling (and sustainng?) change]

Thurs 12/3 Putting to Practice Models of Sustaining /Scaling Changes:

Pick your favorite curricular approach that we've used so far, or that you've encountered in your education or teaching practice..

Consider what the PRACTICAL (and thoeretical challenges are) to implementing these effective practices.
Have you been given all the instructions needed to implement?
What evidence is there of success / what would you want to know in order to document success?

If helpful, consider Redish's Table of Contents (on NB to) which summarzes a bunch of the curricular materials, and pedagogical approaches we've reviewed in class. Or check out Physport.org to find more.

Reminder -- Next week (12/8), Presentations. See info on the Project Page and the Presentation Page