BALDWIN WALLACE UNIVERSITY
American Modeling Teaching Association (AMTA) Workshops
The primary mission of the American Modeling Teaching Association is to provide quality professional development for teachers of STEM courses through Modeling Instruction. Modeling is a guided-inquiry approach to teaching science that organizes instruction around a coherent storyline of model development.
This method provides content instruction while students are immersed in the process of doing science. Research has shown students in Modeling Instruction classrooms perform significantly better on measures of conceptual knowledge when compared to similar students in traditional classrooms.
AMTA strives to foster brilliant teaching and deep learning that incorporates computer technology and insights from the Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standard & current education research.
Participants are supplied with a complete set of course materials and work through activities alternating in the roles of student or teacher, as they practice techniques of guided inquiry and cooperative learning.
Baldwin Wallace University is offering three modeling workshops for Summer 2023:
- Biology (2 weeks)
- Chemistry (2 weeks)
- Computational Modeling Physics First (3 weeks)
Questions about any of these programs can be directed to Katie Adkins at kadkins@bw.edu.
AMTA Workshop
Biology
Instructor: Jessica Wagenmaker
The Biology Modeling Instruction is designed to outfit high school biology teachers with the tools, experiences, and background needed to improve their biology instruction using a proven and award-winning methodology known as modeling.
July 10-21, 2023
Monday-Thursdays: 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Fridays: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Tuition: $1,000.00 (including 4 graduate level credits through Baldwin Wallace University, one year of membership to AMTA, materials, and lunch).
Additional Residential Option: $675.00 for the duration of the program in an apartment-style residential hall with a private bedroom and shared common living spaces. Parking is free.
AMTA Workshop
Chemistry
Instructors: Teresa Marx and Amanda Horan
This course in chemistry is for high school teachers. The workshop is designed to promote an understanding of models and modeling pedagogy which will enable students to learn concepts in chemistry from the perspective of systematically developed particle models of matter. Instructional strategies include a coherent approach to the role of energy in a physical and chemical change.
July 10-21, 2023
Monday-Thursdays: 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Fridays: 8:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.
Tuition: $1,200.00 (including 4 graduate level credits through Baldwin Wallace University, one year of membership to AMTA, materials, and lunch).
Additional Residential Option: $675.00 for the duration of the program in an apartment-style residential hall with a private bedroom and shared common living spaces. Parking is free.
AMTA Workshop
Computational Modeling Physics First
Instructors: Holly McTernan and Bryan Battaglia
July 10-28, 2023
Monday-Friday: 8:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.
This course in physics for high school teachers integrates computational modeling and mechanics. It focuses on pedagogical content knowledge and skills needed to effectively teach basic mechanics. It emphasizes computational modeling through the use of Pyret language and the Bootstrap: Algebra approach developed for novice computing students. Computational ideas introduced include functional expressions, data types, and Boolean logic. These computing tools and approaches are embedded in the Modeling Method of Instruction, in which students develop scientific models. Course content includes Newton’s laws, qualitative modeling of energy storage and transfer, momentum, and basic models in kinematics and dynamics (free particle, constantly accelerating particle).
Tuition: $1,800.00 (including 6 graduate level credits through Baldwin Wallace University, one year of membership to AMTA, materials, and lunch).
Additional Residential Option: $1,070.00 for the duration of the program in an apartment-style residential hall with a private bedroom and shared common living spaces. Parking is free.
