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Office Number:
Education 3105
Phone Number:
(805) 893-8139
E-mail:
education.ucsb.edu dharlow
Danielle Harlow
Assistant Professor, Ph.D. (University of Colorado, Boulder)
Emphasis:
Teaching & Learning
Research Interests:
Science education; Pedagogical and content preparation of teachers; Physics education research; Classroom science discourse
Biography:
I completed my Ph.D. at the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2007. While at the University of Colorado, I was part of the team which developed the Physics and Everyday Thinking (PET) curriculum, an inquiry-based content curriculum designed to meet the needs of practicing and prospective elementary teachers. As part of my dissertation work, I developed a professional development program for practicing K-5 teachers based on the PET curriculum and studied the impact this professional development course had on the elementary teachers’ inquiry-based teaching practices. I was also active in the development and institutionalization of STEM-Colorado, a multi-disciplinary project with the dual goals of recruiting undergraduate science majors into science teaching and transforming large-enrollment science courses through learning teams, increasing student-centered instructional techniques, and appropriately using educational technology.
I have recently taught Elementary Science Methods, Physics for Elementary Teachers, and the Nature of Science. I hope that when students leave my classes they will consider the experiences and ideas about science that learners come into their classroom with and will use these ideas to create engaging science lessons appropriate for students that have diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds.
Prior to my graduate work in science education, I completed a B.S. in physics and a M.S degree in geophysics and taught physics in Tanzania, East Africa.
Recent Publications:
Harlow, D. From Learning Physics to Teaching Physics: What transfers?. National Association of Research in Science Teaching. 2008. [Refereed Conference Proceeding]
Harlow, D. & Otero, V. Learning Physics by Listening to Children. National Association of Research in Science Teaching. 2008. [Refereed Conference Proceeding]
Harlow, D. & Otero, V. Beyond concepts: Transfer from inquiry-based physics to elementary classrooms. American Institute of Physics. 2007. [Refereed Conference Proceeding]
Harlow, D. Elementary science and everyday thinking: Activities for K-5 students to accompany PET and PSET. It’s about time: Armonk, NY. 2007. [Curriculum Materials]
Harlow, D. How Elementary Teachers Use What We Teach: The impact of PER at the K5 Level. American Institute of Physics. 2007. [Refereed Conference Proceeding]
Awards and Honors:
The Best Should Teach Award - Outstanding Doctoral Graduate, The University of Colorado, 2007
1st Place- International Science & Engineering Visualization Challenge sponsored by NSF and the Journal Science (awarded to Physics Education Technology (PhET) group), 2007
Elizabeth A. Wilson Scholarship, 2006
Elizabeth A. Wilson Scholarship, 2005
Fellowship to attend APA graduate student conference, APA National Meeting, 2005
Affiliations:
American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
American Educational Research Association (AERA)
National Association of Research in Science Teaching (NARST)
National Science Teachers Association (NSTA)
