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Physics Programs of interest for Two Year Colleges

  • Two-Year College New Faculty Experience The AAPT presents a 14-month experience designed specifically for Two-Year College Physics Faculty in their first five years of teaching. This Experience is designed to equip new faculty members with knowledge of active learning techniques that are both based on Physics Education Research (PER) and that have been successfully implemented at two-year colleges across the country. Led by experienced two-year college physics instructors, this conference will empower a new faculty member as they embark on the important mission of developing critical thinking skills in their students and developing the future technological workforce for this country. Need to know more? Contact Scott Schultz at sfschult@delta.edu

  • TYC21
    is a national network of Two Year College Physics Teachers whose goal is to improve physics education through shared information and programs. Sponsored by AAPT and funded by NSF. Some background about the program can be found in this newsletter.
    At the Physical Sciences Resource Center you can find
    teachers, participating in the TYC 21 project, who are willing to serve as a resource for physics and physical science teachers at two-year colleges.
    Also see the TYC21 Isolation Study and TYC21 Networking Model.
  • TYC Physics Workshops
    features several workshops a year on teaching strategies for Introductory Physics. Sponsored and funded by Lee College, Estrella Mountain Community College, and NSF.
  • SPIN-UP/TYC
    Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics at Two-Year Colleges (SPIN-UP/TYC) is a project to find exemplary physics programs at two-year colleges from which a large number of minorities and women enter science, technology, engineering or math programs at a four-year college or university. SPIN-UP/TYC also is documenting programs that encourage students to elect teacher preparation programs at four-year colleges or universities.
  • NTFUP
    National Task Force on Undergraduate Physics. The report on project SPIN-UP (Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics) is now available at the NTFUP web page. You may choose to download the complete report, or download the report in sections. The report is also available as a printed, bound booklet in limited quantities; to order a free copy, please contact aapt-memb@aapt.org.
  • PEPTYC
    The Physics Enhancement Program for Two Year College faculty started in May 1991 with a group of 24 Texas faculty members.  As the project evolved over the next eleven years, the participants later came from the Southwest part of the country and eventually from all over the US.  The goals of the project are to provide modern physics content seminars and innovative pedagogical approaches to teaching introductory physics.
    (Source: Some Thoughts on Teaching)
  • PET
    Physics for Elementary Teachers - also of interest to two year colleges. It is a new one-semester activity-based and discussion-oriented physics course aimed at prospective elementary teachers.This year PET is being field- tested at 25 two-year and four-year institutions, with about 35 different faculty members teaching the course. Here is more information provided by project director Fred Goldberg (fgoldberg@sciences.sdsu.edu).

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