2005 RET Program Participants

Teacher	Project Title	Faculty and Grad Student/Postdoc Advisor	Subject/School
Christina Talbot	Soft Lithography: Practical Fabrication on the Micrometer and Nanometer Scales	Professor George Whitesides/Logan McCarty	Physical Science (combined Physics/Chem)/ Memorial High School, Manchester, NH
Aaron Osowiecki	Transformers: "More Than Meets the Eye" Looking at Transformers in the Classroom	Dr. Kathryn A. Hollar	Physics/ Boston Latin School
Bryan Menegoni	Interactive Engagement and Technology for Biology Instruction	Eric Mazur/ Dr. Veronica McCauley	Marblehead High School
Dylan Boyd	Dust in the Wind: Evaluating STILT, and Atmospheric Transport Model, Using the ANATEX Data Set	Professor Steven C. Wofsy/John C. Lin, Victoria Y. Chow	Integrated Math/ Needham H.S.
Tara Trent	Bringing Research into the Classroom Using C. Elegans	Professor Eric Mazur/ Sam Chung	Physics and Biology/ Cambridge Rindge and Latin

 

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PEER INSTRUCTION

The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center and the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center at Harvard University, in conjunction with the Cambridge-Harvard GK12 Program, offer a workshop for middle and high school science and math instructors on Peer Instruction by Professor Eric Mazur. The basic goals of Peer Instruction are to encourage and make use of student interaction during lectures, while focusing students’ attention on underlying concepts and techniques. The method has been assessed in many studies using standardized, diagnostic tests and shown to be twice as effective as the conventional lecture approach to teaching.

Peer Instruction is now used in a wide range of science and math courses at the college and secondary level. During the Peer Instruction workshop, participants learn about Peer Instruction, serve as the “class” in which Peer Instruction is demonstrated, discuss several models for implementing the technique into the classroom, and learn about available teaching resources. More information on Peer Instruction is available at the website http://galileo.harvard.edu and at http://mazur-www.harvard.edu/education/educationmenu.php.

For information about the latest Peer Instruction Workshop, please visit http://www.eduprograms.deas.harvard.edu/peer_instruction.htm.