STAMPS

Are you a high school teacher who wants your students to master state
benchmarks in physical science, chemistry, or physics? Do you want to gain
a deeper understanding of core concepts and how to teach them in a
meaningful and interesting way? If so, the 2013 STAMPS Modeling Institute
at BGSU is the place to be!

The Modeling Institute will be peer-led. Chemistry and Physics content will be reorganized around basic models to increase its structural coherence. Participants ill be supplied with a complete set of course materials and work through activities alternately in the roles of student or teacher, as they practice techniques of guided inquiry and cooperative learning.

What is Modeling?

Modeling Instruction is a nationally tested inquiry teaching style. It was developed at Arizona State University over two decades ago to integrate insights from physics education research with classroom experience of exceptional inservice teachers. In a series of workshops, teachers improve their physics, chemistry, or physical science content knowledge and are equipped with a robust teaching methodology for developing student abilities to:

make sense of physical experience,
understand scientific claims,
articulate coherent opinions of their own and defend them with cogent arguments,
evaluate evidence in support of justified belief.

Modeling Instruction is a curriculum design, rather than a fixed curriculum, so teachers can flexibly adapt it to different courses and student abilities.

Modeling is one of two K-12 science programs designated by the U.S. Department of Education as EXEMPLARY. Visit http://modeling.asu.edu for more details.

Incentives:

Nationally recognized science modeling materials with an 18-year track
record of success
Hands-on experience with teaching and learning by guided inquiry
Teacher content preparation with other high school professionals
Participants will receive 4 FREE graduate credit hours from Bowling Green
State University
Participants will receive a material resource kit of approximately $350
value
Participants will receive a stipend of $300

Teacher requirements:

Apply for the program online
Participate actively in all meetings (see the schedule below)
Arrange one classroom observation during the 2013-14 school year

Schedule:

2-Week Summer Institute, July 22 – August 2, M-F 8-5 (80 contact hours)
AY follow up dates:
- September 3, October 3, November 7, January 9, February 4, and March 6.

The application deadline is April 1, 2013, but we encourage early application. Click here to download an application.

Total hours are equivalent to 4 semester hours (3 for Summer Institute; 1 after March 2014)

For more information, please contact John Laird, laird@bgsu.edu,
419-372-7244.

Funded by Ohio Board of Regents ITQ grant

STAMPS is affiliated with the BGSU Colleges of Arts & Sciences and of
Education and Human Development, and with COSMOS, a partner of the Northwest Ohio Center for Excellence in STEM Education (NWO).



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