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Andrew Elby
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Andrew Elby has a long record of teaching, teacher professional development, and education research. After earning his Ph.D. from the Physics Department and an M.A. from the School of Education at the University of California, Berkeley, he taught high school physics for several years in California and Virginia. Currently, he is writing an introductory college physics textbook while also doing science education research in Maryland. In a current three-year project, he meets twice a month with a group of high school physics teachers to watch and discuss videotapes of the teachers' classes. The main professional development focus of these discussions centers on interpreting students' reasoning. He has also led one- and two-day professional development workshops for teachers from the elementary through the community college level.
Topics for content-centered professional development:
- Physics and physical science, all topics (all grade levels)
- Nature of matter, phase changes, ideal & non-ideal gases (all levels)
- Chemical bonding (all levels)
- Other chemistry topics (elementary & middle school level)
Other topics:
- Fostering inquiry (all levels)
- Finding the seeds of scientific thinking in your students' reasoning (all levels)
- Students' views about the nature of knowledge and learning and how they affect your students' behavior (all levels)
- Sense-making and mechanistic reasoning: fostering and assessing "good" scientific reasoning (all levels)
- Refining raw intuition: Helping students build on their own ideas (middle school and high school)
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