Welcome

Physics Education Research Club returns for Neurodiversity Celebration Week

Session 1: Supporting neurodivergent students
6.00pm - 7.00pm Weds 19th March 2025
and/or
3.45pm - 4.45pm Thurs 20th March 2025
Location: Online – we’ll add you to the register on Zoom so that you receive automatic calendar invites.

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Calling all teachers of physics and everyone who supports them!

You are warmly invited to join our Physics Education Research Club. This first session is all about supporting neurodivergent students in physics and takes place during neurodiversity celebration week. It is being repeated at different times to enable as many people as possible to attend. You are welcome to come to either (or both!) to fit with your commitments.

PER club is for everyone who would like to:

Know more about research that is directly relevant to teaching

Use this research to develop their teaching and/or support others

Learn in community with other like-minded educators

How will it work?

1. Sign up by 12th March (you can sign up later, but this deadline gives you two weeks to do the reading / watching / listening)

2. Receive a reading / watching / listening list two weeks before (unless you sign up later!) - read the core reading, and engage with anything else on the list that looks interesting or useful to you

3. During the session: share key take-aways from the reading, discuss, critique, decide what to act on

4. After the session: try out an idea / tweak your practice

SAVE THE DATES

We are planning two further sessions in the summer term:

Supporting neurodivergent physics teachers

w/c 12 May 25 (TBC)

This may be ourselves or our colleagues and/or those we manage – some of whom may not yet have a diagnosis.

Supporting Neurodiversity: Reflection, Action, and Creating Flourishing Educational Environments

w/c 16 June 25 (TBC)

We will reflect on our learning, share actions we have tried along with their outcomes, any further reading we have come across, and think about how to embed good practice to ensure that neurodiverse students and teachers can flourish throughout their experience at school/college.

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