Re: query: methods course at university

Peggy Cowan ( pcowan@educ.state.ak.us )
Mon, 8 Jul 1996 11:17:04 -0800

The University of Alaska Fairbanks hires teachers as methods instructors.
They have tried a variety of approaches. For at least five years they paid
the salary of a teacher for a year to work with them in their methods class
and had that teacher give up their teaching assignment for that period of
time. The teachers rotated. The course was a general secondary methods
course, not particular to science. The teacher teamed with university
faculty I believe in course instruction and student teacher supervision.
They've also taught their elementary science course with a team of a
science faculty and elementary science master teacher, but I think that was
a interim approach. That teacher did it on top of her classroom teaching.
I don't know their current practices.
You could ask Chip McMillan, ffcm@aurora.alaska.edu, what their current
approach is.
The University of Alaska Southeast offers an integrated social studies and
science elementary methods course. Most often it is team taught by master
teachers.
Dave Marvel, jfdm@acad1.alaska.edu (or jfdm@acad1.alm) is your contact for UAS.
Many of our campuses "fill-in" with classroom teachers when a faculty is on
sabbatical or a position is vacant. The above programs, more or less
designed the course to to be teacher taught.
Hope this helps.
Peggy Cowan
Alaska Department of Education

..At 09:42 PM 7/4/96 -0700, you wrote:
>A query for anyone on this list: do you know of any university that hires a
>master high school teacher to teach a "methods of teaching ..." course?
>
>I just read an article on professional development for high school teachers
>that mentions Stanford University as doing this. Does anyone know which
>department, or a faculty member who would know the details of this?
>
>The Arizona State University department of physics and astronomy hires a
>master high school physics teacher to teach a "methods of teaching physics"
>course for inservice and preservice teachers. The course is very well
>received. I'm writing a paper on this subject for an international
>conference on physics education, and would like additional examples.
>
>Jane Jackson, Prof. of Physics, Scottsdale Comm.College (on leave)
>Box 871504, Dept. of Physics, Arizona State Univ., Tempe, AZ 85287-1504.
>phone:(602) 965-8438 fax: 965-7331 e-mail: jane.jackson@asu.edu
>Modeling Workshop Project: http://modeling.la.asu.edu/modeling.html
>
>
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