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Featured Publication

"Teacher Education in Physics" Book Published

PhysTEC has published a compendium of research articles on the preparation of physics and physical-science teachers titled "Teacher Education in Physics." The book includes new reports that reflect cutting-edge research and practice, as well as reprints of previously published seminal papers. A free pdf version of the book is now available. Details and access to free pdf copy

PhysTEC Publications

Book: "Teacher Education in Physics" © 2011 American Physical Society

"Four Funded Sites Join APS Teacher Education Project" APS News, June 2011

"Minority Serving Institutions Take on Teacher Preparation" CSWP & COM Gazette (Pg. 7), Spring 2011

"PhysTEC Project Synopsis", December 2010 pdf

"PhysTEC Scholarship Program for Future Physics Teachers" APS Forum on Education Newsletter, Summer 2010

"Teacher Education Program Adds Five New Sites" APS News, June 2010

Press Release: PhysTEC Announces New Funded Sites, April 2010

"Teacher Preparation Conference Focuses on Diversity" APS News, April 2010

"Task Force Calls Physics Teacher Preparation Massively Inadequate" APS News, April 2010

"APS-Led Project Receives $6.5M NSF Grant" APS News, October 2009

Press Release: PhysTEC addressing national physics teacher shortage, April 2009

"Preparing high school physics teachers" Physics Today, February, 2009

"Future scientists' best shot" AIP Matters, 1/26/2009

"Noyce Scholarships to Aid Selected Physics Teachers" APS News, November 2008

"PhysTEC Prepares Future Physics Teachers" Capitol Hill Quarterly, September 2008

"Towson PhysTEC Project Targets Elementary Science Teaching" APS News, August/September 2008

"Conference Connects Physics Teacher Educators" APS News, April 2008

Press

"Preparing Chemistry Teachers For The Next Generation Science Standards" Chemical & Engineering News, December 2011

"National initiatives recruit and retrain science teachers" Physics Today, January 2011

"CSU Selected to be a National Model for the Preparation of High School Physics Teachers" CSU News, October 2010

"Cornell producing future high school physics teachers" Cornell University Chronicle, 11/30/2009

"FIU’s New Approach to Teaching Sends Scientists into the Classroom" News@FIU, 11/30/2009

"A genuine teaching experience" Physics Today, October 2009

"PhysTEC Integrates Physics, Education" NSTA Reports, January 2009

"U takes part in effort to improve physics teaching" Minnesota Daily, 11/9/2008

"Teaching Physics Matters" Connect (University of Minnesota College of Education and Human Development alumni magazine) Fall 2008

Presentations


2010

pdfNational Task Force on Teacher Education in Physics (T-TEP)
Monica Plisch, Assistant Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 21 October 2010 at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA

pdfCritical Issues Facing the Physics Community
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 21 October 2010 at Southern University, Baton Rouge, LA

pdf2010 Request for Proposals: PhysTEC
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 18 October 2010 via Webinar from ACP, College Park, MD

pdfPhysTEC Overview and Update
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Stamatis Vokos, Task Force Chair and Professor of Physics, Seattle Pacific University
Presented on 12 June 2010 at the Department Chairs Meeting, ACP, College Park, MD

pdfNational Task Force on Teacher Education in Physics
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 10 June 2010 at the SMTI National Conference, Cincinnati, OH

pdfPerspectives on Physics Teacher Education: Challenges, Opportunities, and Vision
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 6 January 2010 at the APLU Leadership Collaborative Retreat

2009

pdfPhysics Teacher Education Coalition: An Overview
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 21 October 2009 at the California 2YC-4YC Collaboration Meeting

pdfTeacher Recruitment: Strategies from the Physics Teacher Education Coalition
Monica Plisch, Assistant Director of Education, American Physical Society
Presented on 3 July 2009 at the National Science Foundation's Noyce PI Conference

pdfPhysTEC
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 19 May 2009 at the APLU Science and Math Teacher Imperative meeting, Boulder, Colorado

pdfTask Force on Teacher Education in Physics
Stamatis Vokos, Task Force Chair and Professor of Physics, Seattle Pacific University
Presented on 3 May 2009 at the APS April Meeting, Denver, Colorado

pdf Why do we need 10,000 physics majors?
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 16 March 2009 at the APS March Meeting, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

pdf Physics Teacher Preparation: Problems, Perspectives, and Solutions
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 11 March 2009 at the NASULGC Leadership Collaborative Workshop at PTEC 09, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

pdf Expanding the Science Teacher Pipeline
Monica Plisch, Assistant Director of Education, American Physical Society and Jennifer Presley, Director, Science & Mathematics Education Policy, Association of Public and Land Grant Universities
Presented on 18 February 2009 at an Inside Higher Education webinar

pdfStatistics and Rationale for the Doubling Initiative
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 11 February 2009 at the National Society of Black Physicists/National Society of Hispanic Physicists, Nashville, Tennessee

2008

pdfThe Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Monica Plisch, Assistant Director of Education, American Physical Society
Presented on 10 October, 2008 at the PTEC-Northwest Regional Conference, Seattle, WA

pdfPhysics Teacher Preparation: Problems, Perspectives, and Solutions
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 17 August 2008 at the American Chemical Society Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA

pdfPhysics Teacher Preparation: Problems, Perspectives, and Solutions
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 21 July 2008 at the AAPT Summer Meeting, Edmonton, Alberta

pdfLeaky Bucket or Revolving Door: Why Don't We Support Our Novice Teachers?
Paul Hickman, Science Education Consultant and Marcia Fetters, Western Michigan University
Presented on 21 July, 2008 at the Summer AAPT Meeting at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta

pdfThe Role of Physics Departments in the Recruitment, Preparation and Support of Pre‐college Teachers of Physics
Lane Seeley and Stamatis Vokos, Seattle Pacific University, and Pam Kraus, Facet Innovations LLC
Presented on 17 May 2008 at the APS Northwest Section Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon

pdfPhysTEC and its Message for All Science Educators
Marty Alderman, PhysTEC Teacher-in-Residence, Cornell University
Presented on 19 April 2008 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

pdfThe Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Monica Plisch, Assistant Director of Education, American Physical Society
Presented on 8 March 2008 at the Joint Spring Meeting of the Texas Sections of APS, AAPT, and SPS Zone 13.

pdfA Crisis in Teacher Preparation: National Problem, Local Solutions
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 28 January 2008 at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2007

pdfRising Above the Gathering Storm: Recruiting and Training the Physics Teachers and Physicists of Tomorrow
Rob Thorne, Cornell University
Presented on 30 November 2007 at Qatar University, Doha, Qatar

pdfThe State of High School Physics and Physics First
Paul Hickman, PhysTEC Project Consultant
Presented on 20 November 2007 at The State of Science Education Reform,
Carroll County, MD

pdfAPS Education & Diversity Efforts: System, Need, Programs, Results
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 2 October, 2007 at the Institute of Physics, London, England

pdfPhysTEC at Ball State University
Ball State University PhysTEC Team
Presented on 25 September 2007 at Ball State University, Muncie, IN

pdfThe Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 11 September 2007 at Misericordia University, Dallas, PA

pdfPreparing and Supporting Effective STEM Teachers: Discipline-Based Professional Societies Respond
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education & Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 10 September 2007 at the DR-K12 Meeting, Arlington, VA

pdfPreparing Future Physics Teachers: the Physics Teacher Education Coalition
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education & Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 3 August 2007 at the North Carolina PTEC Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC

pdfMaster Teachers: Two Different Programs with Different Roles to Support Teachers of Physics
Paul Hickman, PhysTEC Project Consultant, and Jill Marshall, University of Texas at Austin
Presented on 3 August 2007 at the North Carolina PTEC Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC

pdfThe STEM Colorado Learning Assistant Program
Valerie Otero, University of Colorado at Boulder
Presented on 3 August 2007 at the North Carolina PTEC Workshop, Chapel Hill, NC

pdfPedagogical Content Knowledge
Eugenia Etkina, Professor, Rutgers University
Presented on 3 August 2007 at the Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PTEC) - North Carolina regional meeting

pdfThe Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 19 April 2007 at a meeting of the Renaissance Group at Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, GA

pdfPhysTEC: Physics Teacher Education Coalition
Ingrid Novodvorsky, Director, CoS Teacher Prep Program, University of Arizona
Presented on 7 April 2007 at the Spring Meeting of the Arizona Section of AAPT at Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, AZ

pdfRecruitment: A Critical Element in Addressing the National Shortage of Physics Teachers
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education & Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 3 March 2007, Boulder, CO

pdfPhysics Teaching: The Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education & Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 26 February 2007, Raleigh, North Carolina

pdfRecruiting the Next Generation of Physics Teachers: National Concerns
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education & Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 22 February 2007, Boston, Massachusetts

pdfRecruiting the Next Generation of Physics Teachers: National Concerns
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education & Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 8 January 2007, Seattle, Washington

pdfPhysics Teaching: The Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education & Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 5 January 2007, Clearwater Beach, Florida

2006

pdfPhysTEC: Addressing a National Need in Physics Teacher Preparation
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education & Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 26 July 2006 at the Summer 2006 meeting of the AAPT at Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

pdfThe Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Warren Hein, Associate Executive Officer, American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT)
Presented on 30 September 2006 at the North Carolina Section Meeting of AAPT at Elon College, Elon, NC

pdfThe Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Theodore Hodapp, Director of Education and Outreach, American Physical Society
Presented on 25 September 2006 at a physics department colloquium at
Florida International University, Miami, FL

pdfThe Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Theodore Hodapp, Director of Education and Outreach, American Physical Society
Presented at the Cornell University conference: "The Role of Colleges and Universities in
Preparing Future Physics Teachers", 19 June 2006, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

pdfThe Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Theodore Hodapp, Director of Education and Outreach, American Physical Society
Presented at the APS/AAPT Physics Department Chairs' Meeting, 10 June 2006, American Center for Physics, College Park, MD

pdfRising Above the Gathering Storm by Elevating the Status of Education
Noah Finkelstein, Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder
Presented at the APS/AAPT Physics Department Chairs' Meeting, 10 June 2006, American Center for Physics, College Park, MD

pdfThe Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Theodore Hodapp, Director of Education and Outreach, American Physical Society
Presented at the National Science Foundation, 22 May 2006, Arlington, VA

pdfThe National Crisis in Physics and Physical Science Teacher Preparation
Theodore Hodapp, Director of Education and Outreach, American Physical Society
Presented at the Physics Teacher Education Coalition Conference 24 March 2006, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, AR

pdfThe Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Theodore Hodapp, Director of Education and Outreach, American Physical Society
Presented at a James Madison University Physics Department Seminar, 17 March 2006, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA

pdfThe Assessment of an Initial Science Teacher Preparation Program
Ingrid Novodvorsky, Vincente Talanquer, and Debra Tomanek, University of Arizona
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in
Science Teaching (NARST), 4 April, 2006, San Francisco, CA

pdfStudent Teachers' Thinking Revealed in Self-reported Dilemmas
Debra Tomanek, Vincente Talanquer, and Ingrid Novodvorsky, University of Arizona
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the National Association for Research in Science Teaching (NARST), 4 April, 2006, San Francisco, CA

pdfThe Role of Colleges and Universities in the Preparation of Future Teachers
Theodore Hodapp, Director of Education and Outreach, American Physical Society
Presented at the Cornell University Conference, 28 February 2006, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

2005

pdfThe Physics Teacher Education Coalition: Lessons and Support in Building and Improving Pre-service Teacher Education Programs
Theodore Hodapp, Director of Education and Outreach, American Physical Society
Presented at the Tri-regional AAPT meeting, Luther College, Decorah, IA, 28 Oct 2005

pdfThe Assessment of an Initial Sscience Teacher Preparation Program
Ingrid Novodvorsky, Vincente Talanquer, and Debra Tomanek, University of Arizona
Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), 9 August 2005, Salt Lake City, UT