Training in-service teachers in teaching methodologies for the active learning of

JULIO BENEGAS Y MYRIAM VILLEGAS

Greensboro, NC, USA

Conferencia; 2007 Summer Meeting -American Association of Physics Teachers; 2007

American Association of Physics Teachers

During the last 30 years there have been great advances in the understanding of how people learn basic physics and, subsequently, on the development of appropriate and very successful physics teaching methodologies. Nevertheless, little of all these materials are reaching the classrooms of most countries. In this presentation a PER-based Magister Program on Physics Teaching will be described. The program is aimed at introducing the advances obtained by PER to physics teachers and university professors of the Central-West region of Argentina. It has been designed under the premises that efficient teaching of physics requires that in-service teachers have a good working understanding of both, content and pedagogical knowledge, and that this goal can be achieved by exposing the participants to highly specific methodological courses complemented with disciplinary courses where they can apply the teaching concepts learned in the former. The structure of this program and preliminary results will be shown.