Crisis in Science Education
Schools face a desperate and growing shortage of qualified science teachers. More»
About PTEC
The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PTEC) is an organization of more than 100 institutions dedicated to improving and promoting physics and physical science teacher education. More»
PTEC Member Institutions
Find out about physics teacher preparation activities at PTEC institutions, or join PTEC if your insitution isn't a member yet.
Featured PTEC Member
Recruiting the Next Generation of Science Teachers
Undergraduate students at the University of Arizona who wish to become middle or high school science teachers have a unique opportunity to pursue their goal in the company of other science majors and under the guidance of science educators and experienced mentor teachers. This article presents some of the methods used to recruit science majors into the program, as well as plans to increase the number of students recruited.
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PTEC Announcements
The 2009 PTEC Conference was held in Pittsburgh on March 13th and 14th, 2009. The theme was Institutional Transformation: How do we change departments and universities to embrace the mission of preparing tomorrow's teachers?
Presentations from the conference are now available for download.
Community News
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Additional feeds are available through sitemap . This link is available at the lower right of the site at all times.
Student memberships in the American Association of Physics Teachers are available for pre-service teachers. Student member dues are only $25 per year ($0.07 per day) for which the students receive their choice of the American Journal of Physics or The Physics Teacher in print, electronic access to both journals, print and electronic access to Physics Today, discounts at the AAPT Store, and student registration at the two AAPT annual national meetings. In addition, student members can continue their student rate for three years after graduation to help launch their teaching career without an increased cost of membership.
To join, students should go to the AAPT homepage, www.aapt.org and click on the join button in the top menu bar.
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.
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The PTEC Collection
The PTEC collection seeks to preserve and distribute the expertise of the PTEC community by storing
best practice educational materials, teacher recruitment materials, and PER materials pertaining to teacher preparation.
If you have materials, please consider submitting the materials.
Featured Resource
Science Teaching as a Profession: Why It Isn't How It Could Be
In this book, education writer Sheila Tobias and high-school science chair Anne Baffert report from hundreds of teacher interviews and website postings, that there are ways for science teachers, in collaboration with scientists and willing school administrators, to reverse trends that diminish teaching as a profession.
NSF S-STEM Solicitation 2009
This program makes grants to institutions of higher education to support scholarships for academically talented, financially needy students, enabling them to enter the workforce following completion of an associate; baccalaureate; or graduate-level degree in science and engineering disciplines.
New PTEC Library Materials
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