RESEARCH-BASED TEACHER TRAINING ABOUT REAL-TIME APPROACHES: SOME GUIDELINES AND MATERIALS

A teacher training proposal about approaches based on Real-Time Experiments and Images (RTEI) in physics education is described. RTEI is an innovation still uncommon in class practice; despite the many potential advantages, RTEI naturalisation is still proving a slow process. To favour take-up, guidelines and materials are proposed to trainees in the form of a two-session workshop (6-8 hours each). These focus on: major impact areas of RTEI approaches; the trends in teachers' transformations when adopting this innovation; planning of class activity; teaching how to read/interpret images of real-time graphs; use of these images in physics education. The guiding principle is that, as is the case with awareness of students' learning difficulties, analysis of teachers’ typical transformation trends favours take-up of the innovation through recognition of similarities/differences with individual trainees’ situations, and accelerates the naturalisation of RTEI.