Physics & Engineering Physics Colloquium

Sheehan Ahmed, Ph.D., FCRH 2011, assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University, will present “Teaching with ISLE: Facilitating Students to Discover Physics for Themselves.”

Effectively introducing new students to physics goes hand in hand with using research-based practices for teaching physics. Investigative Science Learning Environment (ISLE) is an inquiry-based approach that focuses on students discovering physical concepts on their own using processes similar to what actual researchers use: observing phenomena, identifying patterns, developing hypotheses, using them to make predictions for testing experiments, and using these testing experiments to reject inconsistent hypotheses. Ahmed will focus on the particular implementation of ISLE that is being run and developed at Rutgers-Newark and the innovations and challenges that come with it.