{"id":601,"date":"2016-10-31T16:12:16","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T14:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/?page_id=601"},"modified":"2021-05-27T11:09:04","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T08:09:04","slug":"the-physics-education-component-of-the-rothschild-weizmann-m-sc-program","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/?page_id=601","title":{"rendered":"The Physics Education Track of the Rothschild-Weizmann M.Sc. program"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The Physics Education Track of the Rothschild-Weizmann M.Sc. program<\/h2>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<h3>Leading team<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:edit.yerushalmi@weizmann.ac.il\">Prof. Edit Yerushalmi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:shimon.levit@weizmann.ac.il\">Prof. Shimon Levit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:Bat-sheva.Eylon@weizmann.ac.il\">Prof. Bat-Sheva Eylon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:Smadar.Levy@weizmann.ac.il\">Dr. Smadar Levy<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Leading Team Members \u2013 Past<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?keywords=%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%AA%D7%A8%20%D7%91%D7%92%D7%A0%D7%95&amp;advanced%5Bemail%5D=&amp;advanced%5Boffice_phone%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bdept%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bemptype%5D=&amp;person_id=&amp;op=%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A9\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"11\">Dr. \u00a0Esther\u00a0Bagno<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"mailto:hana.berger@gmail.com\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"12\">Dr. Hana Berger<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Project members &#8211; Lecturers and Tutors<\/h3>\n<h5>Physics teaching:<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr. Amnon Hazan<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?keywords=%D7%96%D7%94%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%AA%20%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A4%D7%97&amp;advanced%5Bemail%5D=&amp;advanced%5Boffice_phone%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bdept%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bemptype%5D=&amp;person_id=&amp;op=%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A9\">Dr. Zehorit Kapach<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?person_id=18897\">Prof. Yaron Lehavi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?person_id=35847\">Dr.\u00a0Michal Walter<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5><strong style=\"font-style: inherit\">Physics:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?keywords=%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A6%D7%9F%20%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%A8%D7%9E%D7%9F&amp;advanced%5Bemail%5D=&amp;advanced%5Boffice_phone%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bdept%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bemptype%5D=&amp;person_id=&amp;op=%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A9\">Dr. Nitzan Akerman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?keywords=%D7%A8%D7%9F%20%D7%91%D7%95%D7%93%D7%A0%D7%99%D7%A7&amp;advanced%5Bemail%5D=&amp;advanced%5Boffice_phone%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bdept%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bemptype%5D=&amp;person_id=&amp;op=%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A9\">Prof. Ran Budnik<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?keywords=%D7%94%D7%92%D7%A8%20%D7%9C%D7%A0%D7%93%D7%A1%D7%9E%D7%9F&amp;advanced%5Bemail%5D=&amp;advanced%5Boffice_phone%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bdept%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bemptype%5D=&amp;person_id=&amp;op=%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A9\">Dr. Hagar Landsman<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?keywords=milgrom&amp;advanced%5Bemail%5D=&amp;advanced%5Boffice_phone%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bdept%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bemptype%5D=&amp;person_id=&amp;op=Search\" data-auth=\"NotApplicable\" data-linkindex=\"18\">Prof. Mordehai Milgrom<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?keywords=Poem-Kalogerakis&amp;advanced%5Bemail%5D=&amp;advanced%5Boffice_phone%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bdept%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bemptype%5D=&amp;person_id=&amp;op=%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A9\">Dr. Eilon Poem-Kalogerakis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?keywords=%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%9F%20%D7%A8%D7%96&amp;advanced%5Bemail%5D=&amp;advanced%5Boffice_phone%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bdept%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bemptype%5D=&amp;person_id=&amp;op=%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A9\">Dr. Oren Raz<\/a><strong style=\"font-style: inherit\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/pages\/search\/people?keywords=%D7%90%D7%95%D7%A8%D7%9F%20%D7%A8%D7%96&amp;advanced%5Bemail%5D=&amp;advanced%5Boffice_phone%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bdept%5D=&amp;advanced%5Bemptype%5D=&amp;person_id=&amp;op=%D7%97%D7%99%D7%A4%D7%95%D7%A9\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3 align=\"justify\">Summary<\/h3>\n<p>The Rothschild-Weizmann Program is an academic program offered by the Feinberg Graduate School of the Weizmann Institute of Science, aimed to create an elite corps of teachers. The program grants a non-thesis MSc Degree in Science Teaching.<\/p>\n<p>The program\u2019s goal is to expose the teachers to the wide scope of contemporary physics and supply them with necessary research-based tools and instructional approaches for teaching Physics in their high school classes. The program includes courses in physics, courses in physics teaching, general courses and a final project.<\/p>\n<p>The physics courses in the program consist of an introductory course \u2013 Mathematics of Physics; four general courses (Classical and Relativistic Mechanics, Advanced Electromagnetism, Quantum Mechanics of Photons, Atoms and Molecules. and Statistical mechanics through numerical examples); and three courses dedicated to the exposition of particular fields in physics (Applied Optics, Nuclear and particle physics, and Astrophysics). In addition, the teachers participate in a physics laboratory course joining one of the Weizmann Institute physics research groups for two continuous weeks in the summer. The students then prepare a report on their laboratory research. These courses take a unique approach, highlighting the development of fundamental conceptual frameworks hand in hand with the acquisition of skill in their application.<\/p>\n<p>The physics teaching courses consist of two courses on clinical teaching in mechanics and in electromagnetism; a course on modeling, inquiry and problem solving; and a course on issues in physics education &#8211; considerations in curricular development.<\/p>\n<p>These courses acquaint to the teachers physics education research related to students&#8217; difficulties and instructional strategies to promote conceptual change, Inquiry, Problem solving and modeling strategies, and students&#8217; agency in their learning. The courses are anchored in teachers&#8217;\u00a0 practice: The teachers implement research-based instructional strategies in their classes and study the influence of these strategies on their students&#8217; learning. The topics of the general courses are Cognition, learning, and instruction; \u00a0Assessment Methods in science and mathematics education; and History and philosophy of science in science teaching<\/p>\n<p>In the final project the teachers work in teams. Each team focuses on a contemporary physics topic and suggests how to associate it with the high-school physics curriculum. The teachers learn thoroughly the physics involved; design a short module integrating a variety of research-based methods in physics and physics education to be presented to their peers.<\/p>\n<p>Many of the program\u2019s graduates are integrated in key positions such as leaders of the physics teachers&#8217; learning communities, teachers&#8217; mentors in PeTel and leaders of variety of initiatives, as well as in further academic studies.<\/p>\n<p>And what do the graduates say?<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;The program completely changed my teaching. For example, various activities that can be undertaken with students to engage them in truly learning; or pedagogic research that exposes the reasons for a certain teaching method&#8217;s success in contrast to another&#8217;s failure, diagnostic methods, and alternative perceptions among students \u2013 all improve how I go about it in the classroom&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;In the program I discovered that I do not know everything and that it is always possible and necessary to grow as a teacher and develop the ability to personally assimilate new teaching methods&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The program improved my self-confidence and enhanced my knowledge in physics and also helped me find new friends and be a part of a community of peers&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;The program encouraged me to develop professionally and to initiate instructional innovations&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Our thanks to the Edmond De Rothschild foundation and the Morris and Rosalind Goodman Foundation of Canada for their support of the project.<\/p>\n<h3>Further reading<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.weizmann.ac.il\/feinberg\/admissions\/Rothschild-Weizmann-Program\">The program page on the Feinberg Graduate School website<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Rothschild-Weizmann Program for Excellence in Science Teaching &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/z8pcluc5ca45xim\/RW%20book%20for%20Dep.%20website.pdf?dl=0\">A Ten-Year Report<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Physics Education Track of the Rothschild-Weizmann M.Sc. program<\/p>\n<p>Leading team<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Edit Yerushalmi<br \/>\nProf. Shimon Levit<br \/>\nProf. Bat-Sheva Eylon<br \/>\nDr. Smadar Levy<\/p>\n<p>Leading Team Members \u2013 Past<\/p>\n<p>Dr. \u00a0Esther\u00a0Bagno<br \/>\nDr. Hana Berger<\/p>\n<p>Project members &#8211; Lecturers and Tutors<br \/>\nPhysics teaching:<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Amnon Hazan<br \/>\nDr. Zehorit Kapach<br \/>\nProf. Yaron Lehavi<br \/>\nDr.\u00a0Michal Walter<\/p>\n<p>Physics:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Nitzan Akerman<br \/>\nProf. Ran Budnik<br \/>\nDr. Hagar Landsman<br \/>\nProf. Mordehai Milgrom<br \/>\nDr. Eilon Poem-Kalogerakis<br \/>\nDr. Oren Raz<br \/>\n<br ...\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":64,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-601","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/601"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=601"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/601\/revisions\/2769"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stwww1.weizmann.ac.il\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}