SPU物理课程支持赌博十大靠谱软件以代数和微积分为基础的入门物理课程, courses for non-science majors, and courses for elementary teachers-in-training. As an LA, 您使赌博十大靠谱软件能够使用基于研究的教学材料和策略来教授这些课程，从而有助于赌博十大靠谱软件的学生更好地学习.
Experience
Based on the University of Colorado-Boulder model, SPU的LA项目采用三管齐下的方法，将教学实践相结合, weekly content preparation, and pedagogical instruction:
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Practice: SPU的物理入门课程整合了实验、讲座和小组讨论. During class, 助理教师和教师在教室里走动，促进四到六个学生的小组讨论. 班主任参加每一堂课，并提供课外辅导时间和一些批改作业.
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Prep: SPU教师每周与协调员和/或课程讲师会面，回顾课程内容，并就学生在课程中的进展情况交换信息.
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Pedagogy: SPU每周一次的LA教学法课程让LA了解促进对话的教育理论和最佳实践. 课程的具体内容每年都在变化，但始终保持着注意和回应学生的想法和行动的主题, 将理解学生的思维作为教师的主要角色之一. 教育学课程的框架是一个“尝试”各种教学镜头的机会，也是一个学生可以在实践中提出问题和想法的地方.
In all three components, 助理教师的角色被定义为“专家学习者”:助理教师被招募为讨论的促进者, not masters of content.
Significance
SPU’s LA Program is a national exemplar, and we think being an LA matters for many reasons, and matters differently for different students and LAs. 赌博十大靠谱软件在人群和年份中看到的三个主题包括:
Our LA Program improves student learning.
- When you listen to and facilitate discussion among students, 是你们让SPU的物理教学立足于学生的思想. (After all, without the support of many listeners in the classroom, how would we hear and build on students’ ideas?)
- Research has documented many 以学生思考为基础的教学的积极影响, including improved student learning.
- As the histogram below shows, SPU物理入门课程的学生在力概念量表(FCI)上的得分远高于传统课程的学生。, 一种衡量学生对力学概念理解的评估. In fact, students in SPU’s introductory physics courses, on average, score higher than many students in reformed interactive engagement courses.
Our LA Program prepares Learning Assistants for helping professions.
参加SPU的洛杉矶计划为你的职业生涯做准备, including, but not limited to, teaching.
教育学课程的重点是倾听和真正尝试理解学生的想法，然后对他们的想法做出回应(而不是回答), say, where we 在赌博十大靠谱软件的思维中)——为那些需要根据别人的想法做决定的人发展能力(比如.g., doctors who need to make appropriate and caring diagnoses, engineers who need to understand users’ needs, teachers who want to enact standards-oriented pedagogy).
LAs also have opportunities to deepen their own content knowledge, 了解他们在与他人互动时的价值(通过定期反思自己的教学), and practice regular communication about ideas.
Our LA Program builds community.
The SPU LA Program is a community that cares about one another and about our students’ learning. 学会倾听他人——并做好这一点——并发现赌博十大靠谱软件为什么关心教学不仅仅是智力上的工作, and we believe that we have a lot to learn from one another. We know when it’s time to laugh and when it’s time to be serious, as you can see from the pictures below.
Logistics
Qualifications. To be a physics LA, you must have already taken the course for which you want to be an LA, 你必须愿意尝试赌博十大靠谱软件在教育学课上讨论的教学策略和思想.
Applying. Decisions about the LA Program happen on a quarterly basis. Applications to be an LA in the Autumn Quarter are due in early June; applications to be an LA in the Winter or Spring quarters are due approximately midway through the previous quarter (so early November for Winter Quarter and early February for Spring Quarter). Email Dr. Kara Gray (grayk5@coupeandroadster.com) for more details.
Registering for LA Pedagogy. 作为一名洛杉矶人，你需要在第一季度参加洛杉矶教育学课程:PHY 4520, and PHY 4511, 4512, or 4513 for LAs who return for additional quarters. 每一门都是2学分的课程，可以算作高年级物理选修课.
Getting paid. 助理教师与学生的正式接触时间——包括在课堂上促进讨论的时间和在合作学习课程中与学生一起工作的时间——以及评分，都是有报酬的. Laurie Mendes (mendel@coupeandroadster.com) coordinates LA pay, 所以在你开始洛杉矶工作之前，一定要和她取得联系，填写适当的文件.
Research opportunities
We are really proud of our LA Program, 所以赌博十大靠谱软件经常做研究来记录助教们在赌博十大靠谱软件的课程中所做的伟大工作. 这项研究的许多论文都是与LAs共同撰写的. 您可以在下面的链接出版物中阅读更多赌博十大靠谱软件洛杉矶计划的信息. Please contact Dr. Amy Robertson (robertsona2@coupeandroadster.com) if you are interested in participating in research on SPU LAs.
Current publications
C. E. Lovegren and A. D. Robertson, “新教师的学生观念观的发展是明智的和富有成效的,” in 2013 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings, edited by P. V. Englehardt, A. D. Churukian, and D. L. Jones (AIP, Portland, OR, 2013), pp. 225-228.
A. D. Robertson, E. P. Eppard, L. M. Goodhew, E. L. Maaske, H. C. Sabo, F. C. Stewart, D. L. Tuell, and S. T. Wenzinger, “作为好的赌博软件推荐的学习助理:倾听和被倾听的变革经历，《好的赌博软件推荐》2014年夏季版(2014).
E. W. Close, L. Seeley, A. D. Robertson, L. S. DeWater, and H. G. Close, “好的赌博软件推荐:在一所小型文理学院培养物理教师,” in 未来物理教师的招聘与培养:案例研究与有效实践 edited by E. Brewe and C. Sandifer, AIP: Melville, NY, pp. 37-52 (2015).
A. D. Robertson, “Valuing student ideas morally, instrumentally, and intellectually,” in 2015 Physics Education Research Conference Proceedings, edited by A. D. Churukian, D. L. Jones, and L. Ding (AIP, College Park, MD, 2016), pp. 275-278.
A. D. Robertson, K. E. Gray, C. E. Lovegren, K. L. Rininger, and S. T. Wenzinger, “Curricular Knowledge as an Entry Point for Responsive Instruction,《赌博十大靠谱软件》(2016)正在修订中.
A. D. Robertson, 支持新物理教师课程知识的发展,” under review for Journal of Science Teacher Education (2016).
A. D. Robertson and J. Richards, “支持职前物理教师实施响应式教学的响应式方法”,” in preparation for Science Education (2016).