Event

Workshop

Chris Meyer
Date:	Wednesday April 10, 2013
Time:	4:00 pizza. 4:30 - 6:00 physics, 6:00 - ? informal socializing at Sarah's Bistro - two blocks away. Everyone is invited for all or part.
Place:	Toronto, Danforth CTI, 800 Greenwood Ave., Rm A76
Topic:	Chris Meyer presents Teaching Forces ‘PERsuasively’

Teaching Forces ‘PERsuasively’ by Chris Meyer

Forces are our bread and butter, but is your bread getting a bit stale? Chris will help you teach forces using the latest techniques brought to you courtesy of Physics Education Research. A deep conceptual approach to learning forces through inquiry requires a rewriting of our traditional recipes to add in all sorts of new flavours. Come and enjoy the new education taste sensation! When you leave, you will be armed with all the resources you need to dramatically boost your students' appetite for forces. Register in advance with Roberta so that there will be enough pizza!

Chris Meyer completed a Specialist Degree in Physics at the University of Toronto, but didn’t really get this physics stuff until he began teaching. From his experiences “teaching” physics at A. Y. Jackson (North York), the Ontario Science Centre, Rosedale Heights (Toronto) and now York Mills C. I. (North York) he came to realize that the teaching techniques he was raised with were not adequate. After attending a lecture by Edward Redish at the University of Toronto, and becoming acquainted for the first time with Physics Education Research, things began to change. Now Chris gives presentations across southern Ontario encouraging teachers to stop teaching.

If you are coming please email Roberta Tevlin so we have enough pizza and pop at 4:00.

Afterwards: Please join us for informal socializing at Sarah's Bistro - two blocks away.