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Re: [Phys-L] Distance ed summer course for in-service high school teachers

Greetings,

I would like to bring to your attention another opportunity for high school physics teachers to take university professional development courses. The Department of Physics at the University of Virginia has been providing physics courses for inservice high school physics teachers for more than two decades. We now have a total of 9 courses for physical science and physics teachers being offered online. For more details on the dates of the various courses, please go tohttp://k12.phys.virginia.edu/home.html.

Many teachers taking our courses have also graduated from our Master of Arts in Physics Education degree program in the Graduate School of Arts & Sciences, not in Education. We have modified this degree program now so that teachers must only spend one summer residence period of 4 weeks at UVa for two lab courses. All other courses are online. This summer we will offer General Physics II (Electricity, Magnetism, Optics), General Physics III (Modern Physics), the two summer lab courses, and How Things Work I.

Please make this information available to any interested teachers and students. You may also email me personally at the address below. Thanks for your time.

Dr. Richard A Lindgren
Department of Physics
University of Virginia
ral5q@virginia.edu







On Mar 8, 2013, at 5:25 PM, Bruce Sherwood <Bruce_Sherwood@ncsu.edu> wrote:

My NCSU colleague Prof. Laura Clarke has for several years taught the
distance education version of the Matter & Interactions curriculum for
in-service high school physics teachers in the fall semester, a course that
has received high praise from those who have taken it. This summer (2013)
she will for the first time teach the E&M portion of the two-semester
sequence in the summer, which has often been requested.

In addition to the links she gives in the announcement below, you might be
interested in an article about the course, and reactions by teachers who
have taken the course, in the section "Course for HS teachers" at
matterandinteractions.org.

Bruce

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This year I am conducting the experiment of teaching the MATTER AND
INTERACTIONS distance graduate course for high school teachers (Electricity
and Magnetism PY 582) in the *SUMMER* (NC State summer session II:
7/1/13-8/2/13). We have 30 slots and would like to try to fill so that we
can support a graduate TA and give the teachers the best possible
experience. Any in-service teacher is welcome and we are particularly
interested in those transitioning to teaching physics.

We've altered the usual schedule to try to accommodate more teachers. This
will be an intensive course (16 weeks of material in 4 weeks) but provides
the opportunity for teachers to take the class outside the K-12 school
year. Enrollment opens April 22nd.

*If you know of anyone (friends, neighbors, former students, colleagues…)
who might be interested please feel free to forward this mail or pass their
contact information to me.*

Additional information is available at:

http://www.physics.ncsu.edu/clarke/teaching/class.html

and (slow link, be patient):

http://www.science-house.org/index.php/professional-development/41-other/173-py581582-matter-and-interactions-course-for-teachers

Interested teachers should contact me directly: Laura_Clarke@ncsu.edu
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