I have finished the first two tutorials that the students will use during recitations.Tutorials are an effective pedagogy small groups of students to work together and discuss questions that confront misconceptions. These group discussions are held in physics recitations of 20-30 students with a TA wandering around, facilitating where necessary.
The tutorials are ready for both electrostatics and electric fields. They are adapted from University of Maryland tutorials where the emphasis is on reconciling common sense and quantitative work
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I very much enjoyed these activities when I took your class. Maybe enjoyed is not the right word, but it brought in the kind of conversation-towards-a-solution that can't be done in a big lecture or even in a recitation of 20. It's like you're tricking them into going to the help room to work through the hardest problems with a reference. I hope your students appreciate them in that light.
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