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Hello.
Make the course valuable, fun, and Visible. Students come.
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Paul Lulai
St. Anthony Village Senior High
Http://prettygoodphysics.wikispaces.com
US First RoboHuskie Team 2574
On Feb 6, 2009, at 7:56 PM, "Jon and Holly Dodd"
<doddinva@shentel.net> wrote:
Hello. My name is Jonathan Dodd, and I am a relatively new Physics_______________________________________________
teacher. At my school, Physics is only offered every other year.
(Hard to believe, I know. I've been trying to change that.)
Currently, I teach Biology and AP Biology, but I am working on my
masters in Physics currently with UVA.
My school currently has about 650 students, and the Physics class is
only offered every other year. (That's 1 class out of 4 semesters of
classes) When I asked the guidance counselor why that was, the
response was that there was not enough interest to offer more
classes. Does anyone else have a school that is similar in size to
mine with more Physics classes taught?
With the number of students in my school, I would expect to see at
least 1 physics class offered each semester ( we run on a 4 x 4
block schedule). For the number of students that we send to college
that are getting science related degrees, I would think that it
would benefit them to have a high school physics class. (I majored
in Biology, and had to take two classes of Physics.)
Does anyone think that it should be the guidance department that
encourages students to take Physics?
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Forum for Physics Educators
Phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
https://carnot.physics.buffalo.edu/mailman/listinfo/phys-l
Forum for Physics Educators
Phys-l@carnot.physics.buffalo.edu
https://carnot.physics.buffalo.edu/mailman/listinfo/phys-l