Early January is always the perfect time for New Year’s resolutions: we all want to be better in a new year – to eat better, to have better health, to exercise more consistently, to have more time for friends and family. I think the New Year resolution fever is not going to avoid science educators as well. What do I want to accomplish in 2014 in the realm of science teacher education and how am I planning to accomplish it? I have a lot of plans for 2014 in this aspect of my work and here are a few of the highlights:<\/p>\n
1)To host a successful STEM 2014 Conference at UBC<\/a>\u00a0in July of 2014 and make sure as many science educators as possible from Vancouver, from UBC, teacher-candidates attend the conference. I am a member of the Organizing Committee and I think this conference will make a significant contribution to science teacher education.<\/p>\n 2) To present an invited talk at\u00a0The Korean Association for Science Education<\/a> in February. I hope this will be a great opportunity not only to tell others what we do here, but also learn from them. Here is my presentation: \u00a0Using Educational Technologies to Promote Inquiry and the Nature of Science in Physics Teacher Education<\/a><\/p>\n 3) To redevelop my courses for future physics teachers and for science and mathematics teachers based on the feedback I have received so far.<\/p>\n 4) To present our papers at the American Association of Physics Teachers Winter Meeting in Orlando, Florida<\/a>, at the AERA Conference in Philadelphia<\/a>, and at the NARST Conference in Pittsburgh<\/a>. Each one of these conferences is an opportunity to meet amazing people, learn from them and bring new ideas back to my students.<\/p>\n 5) Continue to participate actively in the BC Association of Physics Teachers <\/a>and support pre-service and in-service physics educators.<\/p>\n 6) Continue to participate in the organization of outreach activities for mathematics and science students: UBC Physics Olympics, Science Fairs, BC Brightest Minds, Family Math and Science Day at the Faculty of Education at UBC events, etc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Early January is always the perfect time for New Year’s resolutions: we all want to be better in a new year – to eat better, to have better health, to exercise more consistently, to have more time for friends and… Read moreNew Year Resolutions in Science Education<\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1032,6989,31,236258,6696,2708],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conferences","category-general-teaching","category-personal","category-science-and-society","category-science-education","category-teacher-education","content-layout-excerpt-thumb"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2454,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447\/revisions\/2454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/mmilner\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}