Re: workshop abusers
Lowell Herr (herr@catseq.catlin.edu <herr@catseq.catlin.edu>)
Fri, 3 May 1996 15:19:32 -0700 (PDT)
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TEECH "LEAVING A LEGACY: Sustaining a Project After the Funding Ends"
Sent by: Lowell Herr <herr@catseq.catlin.edu <herr@catseq.catlin.edu>>
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Jane, I was helping with a workshop in 1990 where we had one teacher who
would read the paper while others worked on experiments. When he applied
for our workshop, I quickly place his application on the reject file. L.
Herr
Project PHYSLab
The Catlin Gabel School
Portland, OR 97225
On Fri, 3 May 1996, Jane Jackson wrote:
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> TEECH "LEAVING A LEGACY: Sustaining a Project After the Funding Ends"
> Sent by: jane.jackson@asu.edu <jane.jackson@asu.edu> (Jane Jackson)
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> A question that's been on my mind: how often do you encounter teachers who
> sign up for a summer workshop "for a vacation" - who have a poor attitude:
> say, read a book while the teachers are attending to the discussion, don't
> come to the optional evening sessions, etc.?
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> Is it a big enough problem that it's worth starting some system to alert
> P.I.'s to the names of such people? In our 5 week workshop for high school
> physics teachers last summer, we had ONE, out of 48 teachers. She wasted
> our money, and so we relieved her of further responsibility....
>
> Cheers,
> Jane
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> Jane Jackson (Prof. of Physics, Scottsdale Comm. College--on leave)
> Dept.of Physics, Box 871504, Arizona State Univ.,Tempe AZ 85287-1504.
> jane.jackson@asu.edu <jane.jackson@asu.edu> (602)965-8438 FAX:965-7331
> Modeling Workshop Project: http://modeling.la.asu.edu/modeling.html
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