The 2009 PTEC Conference will be held in Pittsburgh on March 13th and March 14th, 2009. The theme will be "Institutional Change."
Thirty-five submissions for the book on teacher preparation have been received. The submission deadline has passed. The book, to be published jointly by the American Physical Society and American Association of Physics Teachers, will include new reports reflecting cutting-edge research and practice, as well as reprints of previously published seminal papers.
Features
The first edition of the yearly PhysTEC newsletter. This issue introduces the new PhysTEC sites and contains articles about the 2008 PTEC conference. Articles also include interviews with Master Teachers and coverage of the regional PTEC meeting in North Carolina.
Paul Hickman's
Eye on Education
Building a 21st Century U.S. Education System
Last year, nearly a decade after the report, "What Matters Most" the National Commission on Teaching and America's Future published a book called, "Building a 21st Century U.S. Education System." The book can be read online by individual chapters or downloaded in its entirety. The chapter by Barbara Kelley speaks to Teacher Recruitment, Preparation, Induction, Retention, and Distribution. Table of Contents
Eye on Education Archive...
Teacher Research Opportunities
Our Teacher Research Opportunities Map shows NSF-funded Research Experiences for Teachers, QuarkNet centers, and Department of Energy national laboratory internships for preservice teachers.
New PTEC Library Materials