Seeing
the Light:
What's so hard about teaching optics?
How
does science learn?
Builng a community consensus
How
can we learn to teach effectively?
Building a community consensus
Learning
About
Student Learning
A
model of student learning
from a noted expert
A
better model
from cognitive science
Learning is about building long-term memory
Some difficult items learning about light
Why
can’t we just
tell them? show them?
"The results stated on the..."
Interference:
A sample problem
The PER instructional development process