The full list of the publications on the methodology of teaching science

What is the difference between an expert and a professional?

A professional does what is needed to be done.

An expert explains - why.  

How do people become professionals?

By accumulating professional experience.

How do people become experts?

By reflecting on accumulated professional experience.

The mission (i.e. the reason for existence) of science as a human practice is making reliable predictions.

The mission of a scientist as an agent of that practice is discovering truth and presenting it in a testable form. 
The mission of a teacher is fostering in students his/her love for learning. 
The mission of a science teacher is sharing with students the feeling of pleasure from thinking.

Two short video presentations:

1. Open Classroom Initiative: invest in the first world-wide open library of lessons

2. Invest in EdTech and disrupt K12 education

The Proof of a Professional Success

I. Links to publications on the various aspects of

the methodology of teaching science (physics).

[scroll down for the papers on

II. general methodology of teaching

and III. critique of philanthropic approaches to education]

1.  Essentials of Teaching Science

2.  On the science of teaching science

3.  Modeling Instructions, Design Thinking, and Productive Thinking for a Science Teacher

4.  Deliberate Thinking v. Digging a Trench

5.  Graphical Approach for Structuring Physics Knowledge

6.  A General “Algorithm” for Creating a Solution to a Physics Problem

7.  What does “Thinking as a Physicist” mean?

8.  Teaching Tools for Fostering Understanding of Physics

9.  What Math Skills do Students Taking Physics Need to Have?

10.  Three Lessons from Neurology to Physics Teachers

11.  What does it mean to be "smart?"

12.  How much of “cyber” in “cyberlearning” and "cyberthinking"?

13.  Who and why should learn physics?

14.  What does a Teacher need to know about a Brain?

15.  Physics as a Door into STEM Education

16.  What is teaching? What is learning? Why Physics? Professional philosophy of a STEM teacher.

17.  A Problem v. a Task; the Distinction Matters!

18.  Thinking about becoming a STEM teacher? Think again!

19.  What is the difference between a science and a religion? Really.

20.  Anti-Atheism; a Struggle between God and Science

21.  A Full Physics Course

II. Links to publications on the general methodology of teaching.

Books:

1.  Fundamental Laws of TeachOlogy: a Handbook For a Beginner Science Teacher

2.  Facilitating In-Service Teacher Training for Professional Development

3.  Becoming a STEM teacher: a crash course for people entering the profession.

Articles:

1.  The Essence of the Meaning of “Zone of Proximal Development”

2.  The Importance of Early Exposure To Thinking

3.  What is the “Socratic Method”?

4.  Critical Reading of "Making Sense of Confusion" by Jason E. Dowd, Ives Araujo, and Eric Mazur

5.  From being a Teach-er to becoming a Teach-smith.

6.  How I flipped my class without even knowing it (a case study, works for everyone).

7.  What is the mission of education (as a human practice)?

8.  Why Did Russian Cyber Forces Beat Their U.S. Adversaries in 2016? The Answer Is Rooted In The State Of Education!

9.  Do we really know if active forms of learning better than a simple lecture?

10.  Regular Education v. Elite Education

11.  Why do students drop a class and what to do to prevent it from happening

12.  To test or not to test? This is NOT the right question!

13.  An example of NOT being a teacher.

14.  Developing the nation-wide database of the quality of teacher professional development programs, events, and providers.

15.  Developing Strategies and Technology for Generation and Analysis of Longitudinal High Frequency Data Streams from Faculty and Students

16.  The Role of the Unions in “Mass Production” of High-Quality Education

17.  Four Sources of Progress

18.  A Word to Math Teachers About Word Problems

19.  How Can the U.S. Army Solve The Shortage of Qualified Recruits.

20.  The Layered Classroom Approach To Teaching

21.  How is U.S. education reform entangled with U.S.S.R.

22.  Three Myths of The Higher Education

23.  “A Convenient Lie” or “What Research University Faculty Tell Themselves About Their Teaching”

24.  What is so special about being a Scientists?

25.  An Open Classroom: Concept Of a School For The Development of Science Of Education 

26. The mission Of Charter Schools

27. When a tradition must go - away

III. Critical reviews of philanthropic (and more)

approaches to education

1.     A word of advice to Mark Zuckerberg: “You are not Steve Jobs, and that’s a good thing.”

2.     "The Backpack Full of Cash": pointing at a problem, not offering a solution.

3.     XQsupesrschool – a blessing or a waste of money?

4.     Why have hundreds of millions of dollars been spent on developing the common core math standards if most people had not really wanted them?

5.     Seven Reasons Why Rich Philanthropists Fail at Making Systemic Changes in Education

6.     When reforms are due, too much of experience may be as bad as too little of it. (e.g. Bill Gates)

7.     Will the Yidan Prize Affect the Evolution of Education? Too Soon to Say (probably not)

8.     The Beginning of The End of The Chan-Zuckerberg Initiative

9.     A word of advice to Mark Zuckerberg: “You are not Steve Jobs, and that’s a good thing.”

10.How much of the NSF funded fundamental scientific educational research is really fundamental?

11. Appearances can be deceiving, in education, too.

12. Education Reform Needs a New Paradigm

13. Treat Education Like Space Exploration - the diagram.

14. Five Projects Critical For Education

15. Will Artificial Intelligence Save, Replace or even Affect Education Practices? (a venture capitalist’s view)

16. A letter To Mr. Bezos

17. One True Education Trend Which Will Transform Workforce

NB: www.Cognisity.How also includes posts on artificial intelligence and political issues.

www.GoMars.xyz describes the services of Education Advancement Professionals.

Appendix:

In my 2016 “Searching For Visionaries” post I wrote:

“A visionary is not the one who can see things farther away than others, nowadays everyone can utilize binoculars or other instruments to see things afar. A visionary is the one who can see NOW, what others will see much later.”

Since then I wrote many more posts on education (evidently), but my search for a visionary philanthropist has not yet been fruitful.

The critical pieces in the third part of this webpage include descriptions of the efforts of several foundations.

My critique is not about what they do – I admire the efforts to help children getting better education.

My critique is about what they claim – they all claim to reform, reshape the whole system of education.

I have addressed that claim in my pieces.

Here I just want to repeat again that all those foundations will prove is that if you have enough money to hire enough good teachers and to provide to teachers and student good learning environment, students will be learning better than students in other schools.

Affecting the whole system of education requires much more than that; and that is the reason for me writing all those articles listed above (Don’t believe me? Read them!).

Here and now I will only repeat one major feature of the only approach which will make a difference (if applied right) – the openness (some specifics can be found in this posts).

With best wishes,

Dr. Valentin Voroshilov

Education Advancement Professionals

Appendix:

A copy of a note from the main page:

I  am not an idiot or a reckless person. The reason I can allow myself writing what I think, even if that is perpendicular to commonly adopted and conventional views, is that my financial situation is sufficient and stable. Of course, as a normal person, I wouldn't mind making more money, or being involved in more interesting projects (as described in my generic resume). But I do not have to pretend to be someone I'm not to make my living.