Pedagogical Issues Lectures

This lecture series deals with something we all have in common: the teaching and/or learning of physics. The Department invites University of Chicago faculty, graduate students, undergraduate students, postdoctoral researchers, and staff to talks that deal, in some form, with physics and/or science pedagogy.

Monthly in KPTC 206, 5720 South Ellis Avenue

Pedagogical Issues Organizer: David D. Reid: dreid@uchicago.edu

2008 - 2009 Pedagogical Issues Lectures

Date Speaker Title
Oct 14
at 1:30 PM
John Milton
DePaul University		 Teaching About Scaling and Ratio Thinking
Nov 11
at 3:00 PM		 Randy Landsberg
Chicago-KICP		 Cosmology for Everyone
December - - - - No Lecture this month
Jan 27
at 3:00 PM
 Joseph Kozminski
Lewis University		 Using Pluto's Demotion to Teach Comparative Planetology and Other Student-centered Astronomy Projects
Feb 27
at 3:00 PM
in KPTC 103
 Margaret Geppert
Harper College		 Adding Active Learning to the Physics Classroom
March 31
at 3:00 PM		 Paul Sally
Chicago-Math		 Teaching to Different Audiences at Different Levels
April 10
at 1:30 PM		 Marshall Thomsen
Eastern Michigan		 Ethics Education Strategies
May 13
at 3:00 PM		 Robert Bishop
Wheaton College		 Facts, Hypotheses, and Theories in the Classroom

Persons with disabilities may request assistance in advance from David Reid at dreid@uchicago.edu or 773-702-3067.