Nifty Fifty Speaker Jeff Goldstein
kcollins | September 9, 2011Jeff Goldstein is a renowned astrophysicist and director of the National Center for Earth and Space Science Education in Washington DC. But he is equally known as a first-rate science educator with a knack for creating and implementing approaches in teaching that truly engage students in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). The teacher's job, he contends, is to "immerse the students in the act of the journey by letting them do science, and acknowledging it is their journey."
Dr. Jeff, (as students and colleagues like to call him), took his message recently to the National…