Thomas W-P and Robin Griffiths with Rosie McTavish
144 episodes
4 months ago
We believe that physics teaching is a wonderful thing, but are aware not everyone agrees. In the UK more and more non-specialists are getting the opportunity (welcome or otherwise) to shine a light on peoples misconceptions about the World around them.We started this podcast to provide useful information about how some of the best physics teachers we know teach the subject. Nearly always the answer will be ‘do some practical work’, which we know is essential to grounding understanding as well as being fun to do and making lessons easier to manage.
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We believe that physics teaching is a wonderful thing, but are aware not everyone agrees. In the UK more and more non-specialists are getting the opportunity (welcome or otherwise) to shine a light on peoples misconceptions about the World around them.We started this podcast to provide useful information about how some of the best physics teachers we know teach the subject. Nearly always the answer will be ‘do some practical work’, which we know is essential to grounding understanding as well as being fun to do and making lessons easier to manage.
In the penultimate podcast, Rosie and Thomas have a jolly catch-up about supporting physics students with extra-curricular projects and ways to teach the Particle Theory of matter; all with a big dose of space stories along the way.
Join Robin, Rosie and friend-of-the-Podcast, and hugely successful author, Ben Rogers for a delectable selection of ways to teach electricity spanning from primary school year 4 all the way through to some fun ideas for year 12 A-level classes.
Rosie and Robin finally get a chance to catch up, whilst Thomas jets off on holiday, but not before catching up with Richard Brock to discuss the art of storytelling in the classroom
We chat with Callum Farnsworth about his exciting project as an Ogden Senior Teaching Fellow developing resources for use alongside much loved by physics teacher's PHET tools. Callum's website is called 'PHET Effect'.
It's January and hence what better time to also talk about some teaching New Year Resolutions too! Thomas and Callum come up with some super ideas to help students on how to tackle exam questions along with some some creative admin time savers to clear out time absorbing tasks and create some much welcome space for time on the things that really matter to a teacher.
Dr David Boyce returns to share his solution to a dilemma: how do you bring your classroom up to date digitally, but avoid all your students disappearing down the internet rabbit hole.
Polymath Dr David Boyce joins Thomas and Robin to discuss the first of three potentially transformative developments in physics education... can 3d printing help you teach physics?
If you are one of the heroes who wouldn't call themself a physics teacher... but teach physics anyway, meet the Ogden Trust: their SKPT programme is designed to give you the professional recognition for your physics teaching!
We believe that physics teaching is a wonderful thing, but are aware not everyone agrees. In the UK more and more non-specialists are getting the opportunity (welcome or otherwise) to shine a light on peoples misconceptions about the World around them.We started this podcast to provide useful information about how some of the best physics teachers we know teach the subject. Nearly always the answer will be ‘do some practical work’, which we know is essential to grounding understanding as well as being fun to do and making lessons easier to manage.
