Innovative Training of In-service Teachers for Active Learning: A Short Teacher Development Course Based on Physics Education Research |
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| Authors: | Genaro Zavala Hugo Alarcón and Julio Benegas |
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| Institution: | (1) Departamento de Física, Tecnológico de Monterrey, Monterrey, NL, Mexico;(2) Departamento de Física, Universidad Nacional de San Luis, San Luis, Argentina |
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| Abstract: | In this contribution we describe a short development course for in-service physics teachers. The course structure and materials
are based on the results of educational research, and its main objective is to provide in-service teachers with a first contact
with the active learning strategy “Tutorials in Introductory Physics,” developed by the Physics Education Research Group at
the University of Washington. The course was organized in a constructivist, active learning environment, so that teachers
have first to experience, as regular students, the whole Tutorial sequence of activities: Tutorial pre-test, Tutorial, and
Tutorial Homework. After each Tutorial, teachers reflect on, and recognize their own students’ learning difficulties, discussing
their teaching experiences with their colleagues in small collaborative groups first and the whole class later. Finally they
read and discuss specific Physics Education Research literature, where these learning difficulties have been extensively studied
by researchers. At the beginning and at the end of the course the participants were given the conceptual multiple-choice test
Force Concept Inventory (FCI). The pre-/post-instruction FCI data were presented as a practical example of the use of a research-based
test widely used in educational research and in formative assessment processes designed to improve instruction. |
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