As you may already know, Nina Hersch Gabelko – ATDP’s director for almost a quarter of a century – retired on October 1st and Adena Young has been named interim director. (In case you missed it, you can read Adena’s account of Nina’s tenure, which was published in the final newsletter of Summer ’11 [PDF, 1.7 Mb]) […]
Read More →Category: News & Announcements
New Website Coming Soon
Re-refashioning the Virtual ATDP by Sam Pierce In order to make it easier to access information and resources (including fellow students and families), much of our effort has been spent on ATDP’s online presence. Along with our usual course catalog, we’re looking forward to rolling out a new website this winter. It’ll look much like […]
Read More →Community Newsletter, Vol. 4, I. 1
Inside this issue… Features Continuing the Academic Conversation Leaving ATDP Smiling: A Look Back on Nina’s 44 Years of Service to Education Research at ATDP: Why We Do It and How It’s Used How did they do that? Cognitive Neuroscience Extra-Terrestrial Trigonometry First-Year Japanese Human Anatomy & Physiology New at ATDP Important dates for our 2012 […]
Read More →Reminder: July 4th Holiday
Don’t forget: campus is closed on Monday, July 4th! Students in Monday classes should make sure that they (and their parents) know when and where their classes will be meeting to make up the time. Please let the office know if you’ll need to miss your make-up day. Have a wonderful long weekend!
Read More →S’11 Week 2: From the Director
Oski the Cal bear wants YOU to have a wonderful time. Oh, and he wants you to work smart, too. Here you are already starting the second week of your ATDP class and every student I have met is still smiling, making friends, and learning, learning, learning. It is always a delight to see how […]
Read More →Paid Learning Experiment
Hi everyone! Please read the following announcement from Lauren Barth-Cohen, one of this summer’s instructors for Introducing Physics: Dear Parents & Students, My name is Lauren Barth-Cohen. I’m a doctoral student at Berkeley. We are looking to recruit high school students for a research study on student’s conceptual learning in science. For this study we […]
Read More →Tutoring is now available!
Tutoring sign-up sheets are posted on quite a few of the walls surrounding the ATDP office (3639 Tolman)! The math students are already swarming; students of writing, Psychology, Sociology, and Japanese, it’s time for you to catch up! See you all soon :)
Read More →From the Director – Week 1
At our ATDP Family Orientation a couple of weeks ago, I spoke about what it means to join the academic conversation as part of a learning community. Let’s make that our theme for the summer. We hope that your participation in the academic conversation will assist and support you as you grow into the person […]
Read More →Every journey is simply a series of steps
… but the first step is not always simple. Welcome to the ATDP Commons. This section of our website is the potential successor to The Virtual ATDP (TVA) as an online portal for students, instructors, and the greater ATDP community. My long term goal is to integrate all of our online resources: news, research, online […]
Read More →Community Newsletter Vol. 3
Everyone at ATDP Is Here to Learn Students, Instructional Associates, Expert Teachers, Doctoral Students and Professors At ATDP, we grow academic talent; we don’t mine for it. This includes everyone affiliated with the program. Our group begins with novice scientists aged 5 and extends upward to Secondary Division, to ATDP teachers, to doctoral students, professors, […]
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