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Newsletter Volume 3 |
Spring 1999 |
ACEPT Visits the Oklahoma Collaborative (O-TEC)
Eugene Judson
Teacher & ACEPT Consultant
Brimhall Jr. High School
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Newsletter Volume 3 |
Spring 1999 |
Last summer I visited the Oklahoma counterpart of the Arizona Collaborative, the Oklahoma Teacher Education Collaborative (O-TEC). Bob Howard, O-TEC Project Director and Joe Chandler at Tulsa University served as my hosts. O-TEC oversees a smooth coordination of several programs that are reforming science and math pre-service education across the state of Oklahoma. Ideas were shared with me by the O-TEC team about how the new ASU Center for SMET Education might best interface with K-12 schools in the Phoenix areas. The consensus of the O-TEC team was that Centers should not only provide materials for loan to K-12 teachers in the community, but the Center should also become a focal point of in-service teacher training in science, math and technology. We all agreed that such training would especially serve the newer teachers at the elementary grades levels. ACEPT and O-TEC share a close relationship. I learned during my visit to O-TEC that recently Tulsa University faculty adopted a hands-on approach to teaching their entry level physics course. Much of the material and curricula for this course has been adopted from Susan Wyckoffs PHS 110 course material developed as part of the ASU ACEPT reforms. A set of inquiry-oriented laboratory experiments intended for elementary pre-service teachers studying physics and a set of take-home labs using common household materials have been developed, and are available at the ACEPT PHS 110 course website. http://acept.asu.edu/courses/phs110
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