TIPS colleagues,
I received several comments on the order of:
>... what is the PKAL workshop? How do I locate
>material from it?
>
I suggest you look at: http://www.pkal.org/curricul/keystone/a1-index.html
This contains the guide to the first workshop on curriculum. The
second workshop was on the content and structure of the intro course.
I suspect there will be another pair of psychology workshops this
summer, though I am not sure about topic.
PKAL is a science education reform organization that has funding from
NSF and a range of other folks. For the past decade, they have spent
most of their resources on physics, math, chem, and bio. But Psych
is a new emphasis area.
I highly recommend PKAL and its workshops. They have benefited our
program at St. Olaf greatly, both in neuroscience (a new area for us)
and in regular psychology curriculum reform.
-Chuck
- Chuck Huff; 507.646.3169; http://www.stolaf.edu/people/huff/
- Psychology Department, St.Olaf College, Northfield, MN 55057
