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This  program is designed for teachers who have less than six years of teaching experience. The goals of the program is to provide the following:

bulletCurriculum Structure and Sequencing
bulletContext Knowledge for the Specific Discipline
bulletMethods of Teaching Specific topics within the Curriculum
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Enhance your classroom presentations in many areas of the Physics program.

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Encourage teachers to use methods in their classrooms that involve new demonstration ideas

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Expand the scope of your laboratory activities

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Provide a forum for discussion and sharing of their materials and ideas

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Provide an opportunity for teachers training for multiple disciplines

The program consists of Four Saturday Workshops totaling 30 hours of training. Each Saturday will be focused to specific areas of the Physics curriculum.

Saturday,  October 1st, 2005

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Curriculum Sequence, Newton's Laws of Motion

Saturday, November 5th, 2005

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Motion in 2-Dimensions (Projectiles and Circular Motion)

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

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Refraction of Light

Saturday, April 1st, 2006

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Electricity

The presenter for all four Workshops is Howard Myers, Veteran Physics Instructor, Ossining HS.

Date: Saturday,  October 1st, 2005, Saturday, November 5th, 2005 , Saturday, March 4th, 2006, Saturday, April 1st, 2006

Time : 8:30 AM-4:00 PM 

Cost:  $395.00 ( includes Breakfast and Lunch)

Place: Science Wing, Ossining High School, Ossining, New York

Sponsored by: PWISTA

Credit : A 30-hour certificate toward in-service credit will be issued for use according  to your school district’s policy.

Manhattanville College - Three Graduate Science Education Credits available upon  completion of Project  at an additional cost of $ 870.00.

SUNY Purchase -Two Undergraduate Physics Credits available upon completion of project at an additional cost of $430.00 .

For college credit information contact:

Dr. Peter Corfield,  914-251-6675 or email pwrc@ns.purchase.edu

Peter W. R. Corfield, Ph. D.
Director, CSME & Visiting Professor of Chemistry Purchase College, SUNY
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
Tel: 914-251-6675
Fax: 914-251-6635
 

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480 White Plains Road
Tarrytown, NY 10591
Phone: 914-366-4600

 

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