Conference Schedule
Conference Program
Plenary Speakers
Hotel and Travel
Registration and Deadlines
Call for Share-A-Thon Topics
Call for Abstracts
The 2020 PhysTEC Conference will be held February 29th & March 1st in Denver, Colorado.
The program includes time for networking (both structured and unstructured) and several types of sessions and workshops. A tentative list follows, with a schedule grid is farther below. They will be updated when the schedule is finalized.
Plenary sessions:
- Advice from the trenches: A panel of physics teachers discusses how they were (or were not) prepared by their teacher education programs.
- Advocacy for physics teacher preparation
- PhysTEC Awards Ceremony: The Teacher of the Year and The 5+ Club
Workshops and panels:
- New resources for Getting the Facts Out about STEM teaching professions
- Working with and recruiting from Community Colleges
- Cultivating an inclusive culture in the physics department through a Learning Assistant program
- How to start a regional PhysTEC network in your state
- How to get and run an NSF Noyce Scholarship grant
- STEP UP: Supporting Teachers to Encourage the Pursuit of Undergraduate Physics for Women
- How teacher communities or advisory groups can strengthen your teacher preparation program
- Department Action Teams for improving climate, motivation, or capacity for teacher preparation
- The Underrepresentation Curriculum Project
- Using the PTEPA Rubric to guide program improvement
- Share-a-thon focused on recruitment ideas
- Training teachers to use the research-based PEER curriculum for high school physics
- Periscope: Lessons for training LAs and TAs
- Building relationships between a physics department and a school of education
- Program sustainability: building institutional commitment for teacher education
Post-conference extended workshop: How to build and strengthen a Learning Assistant program that can feed your teacher preparation program
- Between the 2020 PhysTEC Conference and the 2020 APS March Meeting, LA Alliance faculty, Valerie Otero, Laurie Langdon, Eleanor Close, and Brooke Evans, will host a nuts-and-bolts workshop about running a Learning Assistant program.
- The workshop is free for anyone registered for the PhysTEC Conference or the APS March Meeting.
Full Schedule:
| Friday, February 28 | ||
| 5:30pm-7:30pm | Networking Dinner for Current Sites and Fellows (invitation only) |
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| 7:30pm-9:00pm | Happy Hour | |
| 6:00pm-8:30pm | Registration | |
| Saturday, February 29 | ||||
| 7:30am-8:30am | Registration | |||
| 8:00am-9:45am | Opening Plenary: State of PhysTEC address and PhysTEC Awards Ceremony | |||
| 9:45am-10:00am | Break | |||
| 10:00am-11:15am | Building Relationships between Physics Departments and Schools of Education | New resources for Getting the Facts Out about STEM teaching professions | The Underrepresentation Curriculum Project | |
| 11:15am-11:45am | Networking Break | |||
| 11:45pm-1:00pm | Department Action Teams for improving climate, motivation, or capacity for teacher preparation | Program sustainability: building institutional commitment for teacher education | Training teachers to use the research-based PEER curriculum for high school physics | |
| 1:00pm-1:15pm | Break | |||
| 1:15pm-2:45pm |
Lunch Plenary: Advocacy for physics teacher preparation |
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| 2:45pm-3:00pm | Break | |||
| 3:00pm-4:15pm | Working with and recruiting from Community Colleges | Using the PTEPA Rubric to guide program improvement | How teacher communities or advisory groups can strengthen your teacher preparation program | |
| 4:15pm-4:30pm | Break | |||
| 4:30pm-6:00pm | Reception and Poster Session | |||
| 6:30pm | Networking Dinner | |||
| Sunday, March 1 | |||
| 8:00am-9:30am |
Breakfast Plenary: Table discussions: Problem solving around physics teacher preparation |
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| 9:30am-9:45am | Break | ||
| 9:45am-11:00am | How to start a regional PhysTEC network in your state | Periscope: Lessons for training LAs and TAs | STEP UP: Supporting Teachers to Encourage the Pursuit of Undergraduate Physics for Women |
| 11:00am-11:15am | Break | ||
| 11:15am-12:30pm | How to get and run an NSF Noyce Scholarship grant | Cultivating an inclusive culture in the physics department through a Learning Assistant program | Share-a-thon focused on recruitment ideas |
| 12:45pm-2:15pm |
Lunch Plenary: Advice from the trenches: A panel of physics teachers discusses how they were (or were not) prepared by their teacher education programs |
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| 2:15pm-2:30pm | Closing Session | ||
| 3:00pm-6:00pm |
Pre March Meeting Workshop: Nuts and bolts of running a Learning Assistant program |
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