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Episode 64 - Brooke Jenkins - "Developing Concurrent Enrollment for High Schools / Grants for Teacher P.D"
Episode 64
In this episode, Mark talks with Brooke Jenkins about her early teaching career, her time at ASU, and then as an adjunct instructor at Estrella Mountain Community College, where she was introduced to…
Published on 10 months ago
Episode 63 – ReCast – Kathy Harper – “Ohio State University, Modeling and Engineering”
Episode 63
In this episode, Mark talks with Kathy Harper, a senior lecturer in engineering education at The Ohio State University. She tells us about how she found her way to a modeling workshop half her lifeti…
Published on 11 months ago
Episode 62 - Phil Root - "Modeling at the College Level and Advanced Workshops"
Episode 62
This week, Mark talks with Phil Root about the differences he sees between teaching using modeling methodology at the high school level and the college level. They talk about Phil's experience helpin…
Published on 1 year ago
Episode 61 - Ray Howanski - His Modeling Approach and Where He's Leading the AMTA
Episode 61
This month, Mark talks with the executive officer of the AMTA, Ray Howanski. They talk about the importance of getting at student thinking and effective student-led discussions, and the transformatio…
Published on 1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 60 – F. Joseph Merlino – “The Case For Repurposing Education”
Episode 60
This month, Mark talks with F. Joseph Merlino about the work he has done using grants from the National Science Foundation to reform math and science education. They talk about his work in Egypt over…
Published on 1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 59 - Patrick Daisley - "Helping to Launch the AMTA"
Episode 59
In this episode, Mark talks with Patrick Daisley, long-time modeler and science teacher. They talk about challenges he had when a beginner modeler, good advice that he took and made part of his own r…
Published on 1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 58 – ReCast – Marta Stoeckle – Thoughts on Instructional Shifts and Educational Equity
Episode 58
In this recast episode from July 2021, Mark talks with Marta Stoeckle, who teaches physics and other science courses outside St. Paul, Minnesota. They talk about the improvements Marta experienced in…
Published on 1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 57 – Mike Vargas – “STEM Acceleration”
Episode 57
Mark talks with veteran physics teacher and proponent of physics first in high school. He talks about how the connecting thread of energy should start in middle school and continue through 12th grade…
Published on 1 year, 5 months ago
Episode 56 - Amanda Whitehurst - "Training and Equiping Teachers for STEM"
Episode 56
Mark and Amanda talk about her background as a middle school teacher, the STEM master's program she took at ASU, which introduced her to modeling instruction and eventually led her to found the Cactu…
Published on 1 year, 6 months ago
Episode 55 – Paul Sasso – “Astronomy Modeling has so much to offer”
Episode 55
In this episode, Mark talks with Paul Sasso, a physics and astronomy teacher from Maine. They talk about Paul's experience as a new teacher and his introduction to modeling instruction, and later to …
Published on 1 year, 7 months ago