A National Workshop in the United States to Prepare New Faculty in Physics and Astronomy

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Jul 2010

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INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON PHYSICS EDUCATION: ICPE-2009. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 1263, pp. 12-15 (2010).

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Physics Education

Teaching, Physics, Education, Scientific Societies, Teaching Methods And Strategies, Research In Physics Education, Science In School, Science And Society

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Starting in 1996, newly hired college and university faculty in physics and astronomy from throughout the U.S. have been invited to attend a workshop to help them improve their teaching skills. More than 1000 faculty have participated, representing more than 25% of the new hires at all U. S. institutions that award a baccalaureate in physics or astronomy, from 4-year colleges through research universities. The workshops seek to improve physics teaching by introducing new faculty to instructional strategies and innovations that have been shown to be effective in a variety of contexts. Such a national mentoring workshop can effectively address a commonality of physics and astronomy teaching challenges that transcend institutional characters and types. Based on surveys of the participants (and their department chairs), we have found that a large fraction of the participants have become adopters of innovative teaching techniques and that they rate the workshops as the most significant cause of the improvements in their teaching.

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