Speakers
Keynote Speakers
Prof. Helen R. Quinn
Helen Quinn is Professor Emerita of Particle Physics and Astrophysics at SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory. She received her Ph.D in physics at Stanford in 1967. She has taught physics at both Harvard and Stanford. Dr. Quinn work as a particle physicist has been honored by the Dirac Medal (from the International Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy) and the Klein Medal (from The Swedish National Academy of Sciences and Stockholm University) as well as the Sakurai Prize (from the American Physical Society), the Compton medal (from the American Institute of Physics, awarded once every 4 years) and the 2018 Benjamin Franklin Medal for Physics (from the Franklin Institute). She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Science and the American Philosophical Society. She is a Fellow and former president of the American Physical Society. She is originally from Australia and is an Honorary Officer of the Order of Australia.
Dr. Quinn has been active in science education for some years, and since her retirement in 2010 this has been her major activity. She was a founding member of the Contemporary Physics Education Project (CPEP) which produced a well-known standard-model poster for schools in 1987 (see photo). She served as Chair of the US National Academy of Sciences Board on Science Education (BOSE) from 2009-2014. She was as a member of the BOSE study committee that developed the report “Taking Science to School” and chaired the committee for the “Framework for K-12 Science Education”, which is the basis of the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS) and similar standards now adopted by about 30 states in the US, and has been influential internationally as well. She also contributed to follow-up NRC studies on assessment and implementation of NGSS. From 2015-2018 Helen served at the request of the President of Ecuador as a member of the “Comision Gestora” to help plan and guide the initial development of the National University of Education of Ecuador.
Prof. Joseph Krajcik
Joseph Krajcik serves as director of the CREATE for STEM Institute and is the Lappan-Phillips Professor of Science Education at Michigan State University. In his role as director of CREATE for STEM, he works with faculty, teachers and researchers to improve the teaching and learning of science, mathematics and engineering kindergarten through college by engaging in innovation and research. Throughout his career, Joe has focused on working with science teachers to design and test instructional materials to reform science teaching practices to research student learning and engagement in project-based learning environments. He has authored and co-authored curriculum materials, books, and over 100 manuscripts. Joe served as president of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching from which he received the Distinguished Contributions to Science Education Through Research Award in 2010. Joe received the 2014 George G. Mallinson Award from the Michigan Science Teachers’ Association for overall excellence of contributions to science education. He was honored to receive a Distinguished Professorship from Ewha Woman’s University in Seoul, South Korea in 2009, Guest Professorship from Beijing Normal University in Beijing, China in 2002 and the Weston Visiting Professor of Science Education from Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel in 2005.
Prof. Alan H. Schoenfeld
Alan Schoenfeld is the Elizabeth and Edward Conner Professor of Education and Affiliated Professor of Mathematics at the University of California at Berkeley.
Soon after earning his Ph.D. in mathematics, Schoenfeld turned to issues of mathematical thinking and teaching, and then teaching and learning more generally. His goal is to understand how we think and learn well enough to help teachers create learning environments from which students emerge being knowledgeable, flexible, and resourceful thinkers and problem solvers.
Schoenfeld is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and a Laureate of the education honor society Kappa Delta Pi. He has served as President of AERA and vice President of the National Academy of Education. Among the awards he has received are the International Commission on Mathematics Instruction’s Felix Klein Medal and AERA's Distinguished Contributions to Research in Education award.
Registration Deadline:
December 31, 2018
Organizing committee
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Anat Yarden
Ronnie Karsenty
Bat-Shahar Dorfman
Shani Partush
Weizmann Institute of Science
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Academic Committee
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Anat Yarden
Avi Hofstein
Abraham Arcavi
David Fortus
Nir Orion
Ronnie Karsenty
Bat-Shahar Dorfman
Weizmann Institute of Science
Conference Coordinator
Inbal Azoulay
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