Promoting learning as an ongoing process
As teachers, we often throw around statements that we are teaching students to become ‘lifelong learners’. However, the key to students becoming lifelong learners is them realising that learning is […]
Tag Archives: Modeling Instruction
Teaching physics for depth versus breadth
Throughout my trip I have visited some fantastic schools and met some great teachers who are teaching Physics in deep, meaningful ways using methods such as Project Based Learning and […]
Developing conceptual understanding with whiteboards
One of the cornerstones of Modeling Instruction is the use of group whiteboards which students use to explore and explain their conceptual models. I have seen this in action in a […]
Project Based Learning and Modeling Instruction: are they compatible?
Those who have read all of my posts to date (yes, all seven of them) will have noticed that I have enthusiastically discussed two different teaching methods: Project Based Learning […]
Modeling Instruction at Arizona School for the Arts
Yesterday morning I visited Arizona School for the Arts in order to see two Modeling teachers in action. Arizona School for the Arts is a charter school, which means […]
What is Modeling Instruction?
So in the last few days I have been speaking with and visiting various people in Phoenix who are involved in Modeling Instruction, a teaching method primarily designed for teaching […]
Welcome
Who am I? I’m a teacher from Sydney, Australia who teaches general science to years 7 to 10, and physics to years 11 and 12. Before becoming a teacher […]
