Teaching Physics is Not A Solo Sport with Melissa Eblen-Zayas

About this episode

The episode discusses effective Physics teaching and the importance of disciplinary identity, featuring insights from guest Melissa Eblen-Zayas.

In this conversation we talk about what it means to be an effective teacher of Physics and how to lean into disciplinary identity, being a Physics Professor, to teach Physics better. There is much crossover from UDL that Melissa is able to pinpoint, apply, and share with others that is helpful for not only Physics professors but all other faculty who want to improve their teaching in their discipline. She also introduces the EP3, Effective Practices for Physics Programs, which is created by Physics professors FOR Physics professors to help not only in their teaching, but recruitment and curriculum design, and anything and everything that helps a college level Physics program succeed. But mostly, we talk about taking down barriers for students so that they can more effectively learn, and in this case, learn Physics!

People in this episode

Host: Think UDL

Guest: Melissa Eblen-Zayas

Topics covered

• effective teaching
• Physics education
• Universal Design for Learning
• disciplinary identity
• curriculum design
• student barriers

Keywords

• Physics
• teaching
• Universal Design for Learning
• EP3
• curriculum
• student learning
• barriers

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EP3, Physics Programs

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