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Suzanne Brahmia is the Director
of the Rutgers University Extended Physics Program and the Associate Director
for Physics at Rutgers University Math and Science Learning Center (MSLC). As Director of the Extended Physics Program, she is
responsible for lecturing, administration, curriculum development, training
and supervision of teaching assistants for a two semester introductory
physics course for scientists and engineers comprised of 160 freshmen under
prepared in mathematics. She also oversees the bridging activites of these students as they complete the
mainstream second-year physics course. The MSLC is a science learning facilitity equipped with over 50 hands-on physics
demonstrations, computers, microscopes and slides, and other science-teaching
equipment to enhance the learning for students of math, physics, chemistry
and biology. Suzanne acts as a liaison with the physics department to help
faculty integrate novel teaching activities into existing course
structures. She also develops physics demonstrations and associated
curricular materials, facilitates visits to the center by local K-12 classes,
and frequently runs summer workshops for middle and high school science
teachers. She is physics curriculum developer for the Rutgers Science
Explorer - a mobile science teaching laboratory that visits middle schools
throughout the state of Prior to attending graduate school Suzanne was a Peace
Corps volunteer where she taught physical science in a rural French-speaking
African high school (grades 7-12). Here she learned the art of improvisation
and the effectiveness of simple, hands-on demonstrations using familiar
objects for teaching physics. These skills have been essential in
integrating the ISLE method into a large university lecture course. As the ISLE developer Suzanne has devised simple and
appropriate hands-on activities, written curricular materials, and developed
calculus-based problem solving teaching techniques that coordinate with
learning through experimentation. She originated student-developed ISLE
presentations, a semester-long group project in her course. Suzanne
helped develop the Scientific Abilities Rubrics, and uses them in her course
as grading rubrics for the semester-long group projects. Suzanne is
currently working on the use of ISLE methods in the first physical science
course, at the middle school/early high school level. She has
facilitated several in-service workshops for middle and high school teachers
on integrating math literacy (or numeracy) with the
process of learning science using the ISLE method. She has also
given several talks at national meetings of the American Association of
Physics teachers about her activities related to ISLE. |
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