About this episode

Mark talks with Colleen Megowan about the founding of the AMTA and her vision for the future of modeling instruction.

In this episode, Mark talks with Colleen Megowan about the history and initial founding of the AMTA and how she became the first executive officer for the organization. She talks about what she does as Senior Fellow, and her dreams for the future of AMTA, including research on including AI in modeling instruction, developing modeling methodology for math instruction and for elementary education, and an online journal for research modelers have done in their classrooms. Guest Colleen Megowan-Romanowicz Colleen Megowan-Romanowicz has taught high school and university physics, mathematics, and integrated physics and mathematics in California and Arizona for over 30 years. She learned the Modeling Method of Instruction for physics teaching in 1998 and found it to be so uncannily effective that she wanted to figure out how and why it worked. This ultimately led to a PhD in Physics Education Research at Arizona State University (ASU) focused on Modeling classroom discourse in 2007 under the direction of noted physicist David Hestenes, the theorist who originated Modeling Instruction and enjoyed 16 years of NSF support for its development and dissemination. In 2005 she helped found the…

People in this episode

Host: Mark Royce

Guest: Colleen Megowan-Romanowicz

Topics covered

• Modeling Instruction
• Physics Education
• AI in Education
• Mathematics Instruction
• Educational Research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: American Modeling Teachers Association

Places: California, Arizona

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