Valerie Otero from Colorado making a presentation at the PTEC Conference
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"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
"The Boston University PhysTEC Program" APS Forum on Education Newsletter, Spring 2012
"University of Arkansas Case Study: Teaching, Research, and Advising" APS Forum on Education Newsletter, Spring 2012
"PhysTEC Project Synopsis", March 2012 
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 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
"Physics department works to produce more teachers" The State Press, 11/6/2012
"CWU Receives $65K to Improve Physics Education" CWU News, 10/29/2012
"UA Receives $1.6 Million Grant for Physics Education Improvements in High Schools" UA News, 10/25/2012
"A Collaboration Between University and High School in Preparing Physics Teachers" The Physics Teacher, May 2012
"CSU Partners with PhysTEC to Boost California Science Teacher Production" California Council on Science and Technology Spotlight, 3/15/2012
"Wanted: One Good Physics Teacher" BU Today, 2/1/2012
"Preparing Chemistry Teachers For The Next Generation Science Standards" Chemical & Engineering News, December 2011
"PhysTEC prepares students for future as physics educators" The LAMRON, 10/27/11
"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
2012 Request for Proposals: PhysTEC
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 4 October 2012 via Webinar from ACP, College Park, MD
Who teaches physics: The role of physics departments in educating high school physics teachers
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 21 September 2012 at the University of Maine, Orono, ME.
High School Teacher Preparation: PhysTEC and National Solutions
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 18 July 2012 online.
We Need More Physics Teachers: PhysTEC and UTeach together
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 31 May 2012 at the UTeach Institute-NMSI Conference, Austin, Texas
PhysTEC Conference Opening Welcome
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 3 February 2012 at the 2012 PhysTEC Conference, Ontario, California
The PhysTEC project: A perspective on what it takes to recruit and educate more physics teachers
Monica Plisch
Presented on 1 April 2012 at the APS Meeting
PhysTEC Project Overview
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 2 February 2012 at the PhysTEC Regional Conference of MSTI and CalTeach, Ontario, California
2011 Request for Proposals: PhysTEC
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education and Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 5 October 2011 via Webinar from ACP, College Park, MD
National 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
Critical 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
2010 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
PhysTEC 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
National 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
Perspectives 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
Physics 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
Teacher 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
PhysTEC
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
Task 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
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
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
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
Statistics 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
The 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
Physics 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
Physics 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
Leaky 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
The 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
PhysTEC 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
The 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.
A 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
Rising 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
The 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
APS
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
PhysTEC
at Ball State University
Ball State University PhysTEC Team
Presented on 25 September 2007 at Ball State University, Muncie, IN
The
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
Preparing
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
Preparing
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
Master
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
The
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
Pedagogical
Content Knowledge
Eugenia Etkina, Professor, Rutgers University
Presented on 3 August 2007 at the Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PTEC)
- North
Carolina regional meeting
The
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
PhysTEC:
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
Recruitment:
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
Physics
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
Recruiting
the Next Generation of Physics Teachers: National Concerns
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education & Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 22 February 2007, Boston, Massachusetts
Recruiting
the Next Generation of Physics Teachers: National Concerns
Ted Hodapp, Director of Education & Diversity, American Physical Society
Presented on 8 January 2007, Seattle, Washington
Physics
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
PhysTEC:
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
The
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
The 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
The 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
The 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
Rising 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
The 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
The 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
The 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
The 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
Student 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
The 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
The 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
The 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
