2010 Physics Teacher Education Coalition Conference

Physics Teacher Education Coalition
February 12, 2010 - February 13, 2010 in Washington, DC at the Omni Shoreham

Diversity in Physics Education: Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century

The 2010 PTEC Conference will be held in conjunction with the American Physical Society "April" Meeting, the American Association of Physics Teachers Winter Meeting, the National Society of Black Physicists Meeting and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists Meeting.

The conference will feature parallel 90-minute workshop tracks with themes of:

• Diversity in teacher recruitment
• Preparing teachers for urban schools
• Closing the achievement gap
• Funding teacher education programs
• Collaborating across the sciences
• Teaching pedagogical knowledge

Plenary sessions

• Findings of the National Task Force on Teacher Education in Physics, led by Stamatis Vokos, Seattle Pacific University
• There will be two additional plenary sessions. Details coming soon.

Special Announcement

The report of the National Task Force on Teacher Education in Physics will be released at this conference.

Poster session

There will be a contributed poster session on the evening of Friday, February 12. Titles and abstracts due by February 5, 2010 to Gabe Popkin.

Pre-Conference workshop

There will be a pre-conference workshop on the afternoon of Thursday, February 11th, on the topic of Funding for Teacher Education Programs. More information

Additional information

Breakfast and lunch will be provided for all registrants on both days.

Additional information will be posted as it becomes available.

Registration Details

Registration is now open.

$75 for PTEC members; $250 for nonmembers. For information on PTEC membership and how to join, please go to www.PTEC.org/join

Online Registration Link