PTEC 2007 Conference Schedule

The PTEC Conference will be held on Saturday, March 3, and Sunday, March 4, 2007 at the Millennium Harvest Hotel in Boulder, CO.

The conference will have 21 workshops, 2 plenary sessions, and 3 focused discussions. Additionally, there are 2 focused discussions that will occur during a Post-Conference session.

Saturday, March 3, 2007

Breakfast and Welcome, 7:15am-8:30am
Century Room

Session 1, 8:45am-10:15am
Century Room Investigative Science Learning Environment: Using the processes of science and cognitive strategies to help students learn physics Eugenia Etkina and Alan Van Heuvelen	Millennium Room Direct Practices for Physics Teacher Candidate Recruitment Carl Wenning	Suite 231 From Research to Practice: Why hasn’t educational research had more of an influence on teachers and what can we do about it? Charles Henderson	Suite 331 "Why Should I Care?" Making Physics Relevant to Non-Believers Robert E. Thorne

Break: 10:15am-10:45am

Session 2, 10:45am-12:15pm
Century Room "Just Can't Be Done": Four Year Degree Plans, Full Internal Funding, and Other Secrets for Doubling Science and Math Teacher Graduates Michael Marder	Millennium Room Attending to More than Content Mastery: assessing student attitudes and beliefs in our classrooms Noah Finkelstein, Wendy Adams, Katherine Perkins, and Steven Pollock	Suite 231 An Undergraduate Teacher Education Program For Engineering Students Janet A. Blume	Suite 331 Modeling Instruction in Physics: An Appetizer Kathleen A. Harper

Lunch and Plenary, 12:30pm-2:00pm
Century Room Science Education in the 21^st Century: Using the tools of physics to teach physics Carl Wieman

Session 3, 2:00pm-3:30pm
Century Room Resources and tools that can help you implement the Investigative Science Learning Environment Eugenia Etkina and Alan Van Heuvelen	Millennium Room Promise and pitfalls of reformed instruction for female students Catherine Crouch and Noah Finkelstein	Suite 231 Recruiting Females into High School Physics Teaching: Issues, Actions, and Results Patsy Ann Johnson	Suite 331 TIR'S and Teacher Preparation: The What, When, Why and How! Dave Buck-Moyer and Nancy Stauch

Break: 3:30pm-4:00pm

Session 4, 4:00pm-5:30pm
Century Room Indirect Practices for Physics Teacher Candidate Recruitment Carl Wenning	Millennium Room Recruiting and Retaining Minority Students David Aragon	Suite 231 How to most effectively use a master teacher Focused Discussion: Gay Stewart, Facilitator	Suite 331 Ways to provide an early teaching experience Focused Discussion: Cody Sandifer, Facilitator	Suite 431 What should a definitive volume on Teacher Preparation Include? Focused Discussion: David Meltzer, Facilitator

Reception and Poster Session, 6:30pm-8:30pm
Millennium Room

Sunday, March 4, 2007

Breakfast on Your Own

Session 5, 8:15am-9:45am
Century Room Why Having a Theory of Learning Changes What I do in Class on Monday Edward F. Redish	Millennium Room A research-based approach to helping students understand mechanical waves Lillian C. McDermott, Peter Shaffer, Paula Heron, and Mila Kryjevskaia	Suite 231 Recruiting a New Generation of Physics Teachers: The Role of Mentoring in the Learning to Teach Continuum Drew Isola and Bob Poel	Suite 331 Cultivating Our Physics Community and Reaping the Next Generation of Physics Teachers Cathy Ezrailson

Break: 9:45am-10:15am

Session 6, 10:15am-11:45am
Century Room The development of scientific reasoning skills in a Physics by Inquiry course Lillian C. McDermott, Peter Shaffer, Paula Heron, and Mila Kryjevskaia	Millennium Room The Nuts and Bolts of designing a Pedagogical Course for Learning Assistants Valerie Otero and Steve Iona	Suite 231 Retaining a New Generation of Physics Teachers: The Role of Physics Departments in Effective Mentoring Programs Drew Isola and Bob Poel	Suite 331 Do student accommodations only mean I need to give them more time for the test? Julia Olsen

Lunch and Plenary, 12:00pm-1:30pm
Century Room Rising Above the Gathering Storm Cherry Murray

Plenary Panel, 1:30pm-3:00pm
Century Room Representatives from IBM, Intel, and Lawrence Livermore discuss the corporate/foundation view of the importance of teacher preparation

Post Conference Session, 3:30pm-5:00pm
Century Room Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP): Providing Feedback to Improve Science Instruction Focused Discussion: Paul Hickman, Facilitator	Millennium Room National Task Force on Teacher Preparation Focused Discussion: Stamatis Vokos, Facilitator

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