Success Stories about Modeling Instruction

Success Stories about Modeling Instruction:

by teachers, their students, the press

BY TEACHERS

· School-wide implementation of Modeling Instruction in science

Barry Walker at Briarwood Christian School in Birmingham, AL (fall 2008)

· Measured achievement in high school

AP, SAT-II, and FCI data and comments by teachers

· Measured achievement in middle school

Huge gains on eighth grade state math test in urban Phoenix public school (2007) doc

· Student success in college and career

Kelli Gamez Warble in rural Arizona: her former students’ careers in science & engineering
Modeling Instruction prepares students very well for college

· Students become science-literate and prepared for daily life

· Letters to policy makers and the press, on the benefits of Modeling Instruction

21^st century skills: letters to Washington Post Education columnist, Jay Mathews, by Nicholas Park, Matt Greenwolfe, and several more (2008)

21^st century skills: letters to Washington Post Education columnist, Jay Mathews by Russ Shaffer and Barry Walker (2009)
STEM teachers need professional development funding (letters to BHEF in 2005)
Modeling Instruction is Best Practice: letter to Gates Foundation by Matt Greenwolfe (2009) 9/29

· Teacher satisfaction

Unsolicited testimonials from teachers worldwide (2004 to 2009)

· Teacher retention

· Pre-service teachers

· 9th grade physics

BY STUDENTS

· High school students