The in-person meeting for experienced implementers of Tutorials in Introductory Physics will enable participants to:
- Get updates on what’s new with Tutorials, including new updated Tutorials and algebra-based materials, new instructor guides, a new website, and plans for a community of Tutorials implementers.
- Provide feedback on new tutorials, old tutorials, instructor guides, new website, and proposed community activities
- Help shape how our community will develop and learn about possible roles you could play in that community
- Get professional development in implementing tutorials and how to be a community leader
- Observe Tutorials and TA training at UW
- Hang out with fun people
- Kick off a new Tutorials community and gain a sense of leadership and community with other participants
Sunday, March 3rd:
4 – 6 Check in to hotel
6:30 – 8:30 Working Dinner
Monday, March 4th:
7:40 Leave the hotel and walk to meeting
8 – 9 Working Breakfast at Physics & Astronomy Building, UW, Room 520
9 – 9:20 Framing the goals of the meeting
9:20 –10:20 Introductions and discussion of participants’ experience implementing tutorials
10:20 – 10:40 Break
10:40 – 11:20 Discussion of resources needed to support tutorial implementation
11:20 – 12:15 Exploring existing models of faculty communities that support teaching
12:15 – 12:25 Discuss what we want to learn about TA training
12:25 – 12:30 Paperwork
12:30 – 1:30 Working Lunch
1:30 – 2:30 Mock TA training working through a tutorial
2:30 – 3:10 Discussion of TA training
3:10 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 3:50 Update on Faculty Online Learning Community
3:50 – 4:20 Discuss website and ideas for community activities
4:20 – 5:00 Develop personas of Tutorials implementers
6:00 – 8:30 Working Dinner
Tuesday, March 5th:
7:40 Leave the hotel and walk to meeting
8 – 9 Working Breakfast at Physics & Astronomy Building, UW, Room 520
9 – 10:10 Brainstorming what a community could look like, developing scenarios
10:10 – 11:10 Discuss instructor’s guides, pretests, posttests, and lecture tutorials
11:10 – 11:30 Break
11:30 – 12:20 Observe Tutorials (split into 3 groups)
12:30 – 1:30 Working Lunch
1:30 – 2:10 Discussion of Tutorial observations
2:10 – 3:10 What resources and community activities should be developed for this project?
3:10 – 3:30 Break
3:30 – 5 Assigning roles in the community and planning next steps
5 – 6 (Optional) Observe lecture tutorial (split into 3 groups)
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