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  Session: PER: Curriculum and Instruction and Student Content Understanding
  Paper Type: Contributed
  Title: Transforming Modeling Instruction in a Large Classroom Environment
  Meeting: 2018 Summer Meeting: Washington, DC
  Location: N/A
  Date:
  Time: 9:10AM
  Author: Idaykis Rodriguez,, Florida International University,
3052066154, irodr020@fiu.edu
  Co-Author(s): Geoff Potvin,, Laird H. Kramer,
  Abstract: In the past four years, FIU has expanding its offering of modeling instruction (MI) for introductory physics from a 30-student classroom to one that accommodates up to 100 students using multiple teaching resources and implementing several structural changes. MI is a studio-based, active learning curriculum that is derived from social constructivist theories of learning. This expanded classroom has been found to consistently support student learning with strong conceptual learning gains across at least four different instructors. In this talk, we discuss the development of the larger classroom offering, including the strategic use of LAs, the coordination of multiple discussion circles, preparatory meetings with an instructional team spanning multiple sections, and detailed curricular modifications that supported the expansion of MI.
  Footnotes: None
  Presentation: sm2018_Transforming Modeling Instruction.pdf

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