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T. Griffith Jones, Ed.S.
University School Assistant Professor
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Mr. Jones in an assistant professor and the science department chair at the University of Florida's P. K. Yonge Developmental Research School in Gainesville. He has directed the research school's elementary science laboratory program and taught high school physics since 1987. As part of the school's innovative hands-on elementary science laboratory program, he conducts science lab activities in the morning with each third, fourth, and fifth grade class. Each afternoon he teaches two classes of Honors Physics to high school juniors and seniors. Mr. Jones' science education service activities include co-editorship of the Florida Science Teacher journal and membership on the Board of Directors for the Florida Association of Science Teachers as the Elementary Science Representative, and Treasurer. He has conducted more than 100 science inservice workshops/institutes at the state, national, and international levels on topics ranging from "Cheap Science" to "Physics for Elementary Students." Mr. Jones has served as principal investigator and lead teacher on numerous state and federally funded science education grants from agencies including the Florida Department of Education and the National Science Foundation. He has designed science education laboratory equipment and accompanying instructional materials for Sheldon Laboratory Systems and Science Kit & Boreal Laboratories and has published articles regarding innovative science teaching strategies in journals including Science and Children and The Science Teacher. He has consulted for numerous agencies and commercial publishers, including the federally-funded GLOBE program and Silver, Burdett, Ginn and Addison-Wesley publishing companies. He has received numerous teaching awards, including Florida Association of Science Teachers' "1990 Award of Promise," and the Florida Association of Science Teachers' "Most Outstanding Elementary Science Teacher of 1998", as well as the "Presidential Award for Excellence in Science and Mathematics Teaching." He has a bachelors degree in science and masters and specialist degrees in science education. |
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P. K. Yonge Developmental Research School College of Education ~ University of Florida 1080 S.W. 11th Street, Gainesville, FL 32601 Office Voice: (352) 392-1554 x.268 Office Fax: (352) 392-9559 E-mail: griff.jones@pky.ufl.edu |
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