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Re: Phys-l: Request for Experienced Physics Teacher Advice and Contribution



Dear Julie-
An experienced physics teacher is one who has been practicing
his/her mistakes to the point where there is no room for change.
Regards,
Jack

Adam was by constitution and proclivity a scientist; I was the same, and
we loved to call ourselves by that great name...Our first memorable
scientific discovery was the law that water and like fluids run downhill,
not up.
Mark Twain, <Extract from Eve's Autobiography>

On Mon, 24 Jul 2000, Julie Peterson wrote:

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Request for Experienced Physics Teacher
Advice and Contribution

I am collecting the advice that experienced physics teachers can offer to
the first year physics teacher. The results will be used in several ways:
guiding me in my first year of teaching, guiding others who read my
master's project for which this is data, and to show that we, as a
community, can do a lot to help each other (this listserv is an example of
that) Plus, I intend to contribute the data to the community to be used in
the training of new physics teachers in the future. Your advice may really
improve future teachers!

PLEASE take however much time you can spare and contribute a sentence,
paragraph, or
essay full of your advice, the things you wish somebody told you when you
first started teaching. THANK YOU SO MUCH!!!!!
** Please respond to Julie-Peterson@nwu.edu**

First, I need to know who you are, about how much experience you have.
Feel free to
tell me just that, or write more to let me know what type of teaching
experiences you have had (years in different subjects, awards, workshops,
projects, whatever you have
excelled in.)

Last, I need an answer to one basic question, "What advice would you offer
the beginning first year physics teacher?"

If you need prompting, these are the follow up questions I have used for
interviews, but feel free just to answer the main one question in the
interest of time.

1. What advice would you give for professional development to a first year
physics teacher?
2. What are the best resources that you would recommend to a first year
physics teacher?
3. What do you recommend to new teachers to prevent burnout?
4. What professional teacher organizations do you belong to?
5. What is the basic structure of a lesson you find most effective?
6. What is the most important advice you would give to first year physics
teachers who are women?
7. What is your best lesson? Why?

Permission to Use Information Contributed:
Because I have to do this officially, I request that any reply to this
request for contributions in answer to the above questions in this email be
free to be used for this Master's Project for the Master of Education
program at Northwestern University or for any other paper written by Julie
Peterson. Any reply to this email will be assumed to have consented to
grant this permission.

Thank you again! I will compile everyone's answers and the information
will be available to all participants who request it and possibly publicly
also.

Best wishes, Julie Peterson

** Please respond to Julie-Peterson@nwu.edu **
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Julie Peterson
Northwestern University
Julie-Peterson@nwu.edu

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experiences you have had (years in different subjects, awards,
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would you offer the beginning first year physics teacher?"


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have used for interviews, but feel free just to answer the main one
question in the interest of time.


1. What advice would you give for professional development to a first
year physics teacher?

2. What are the best resources that you would recommend to a first ye=
ar
physics teacher?

3. What do you recommend to new teachers to prevent burnout?

4. What professional teacher organizations do you belong to?

5. What is the basic structure of a lesson you find most effective?

6. What is the most important advice you would give to first year
physics teachers who are women?

7. What is your best lesson? Why?


Permission to Use Information Contributed:

Because I have to do this officially, I request that any reply to thi=
s
request for contributions in answer to the above questions in this
email be free to be used for this Master's Project for the Master of
Education program at Northwestern University or for any other paper
written by Julie Peterson. Any reply to this email will be assumed t=
o
have consented to grant this permission.=20


Thank you again! I will compile everyone's answers and the informati=
on
will be available to all participants who request it and possibly
publicly also. =20


Best wishes, Julie Peterson


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Julie Peterson

Northwestern University

Julie-Peterson@nwu.edu

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