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Seattle, Washington,
January 7 2007
Thirty two people were in
attendance.
Began by introductions including
recognizing Alex Dickinson.
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New agenda items Dwain Desbien
had some things
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Went over Seattle to date.
- Keith
went over the workshop on Teacher prep hosted (4 headcount)
sponsored by CPTYC. Grants workshop cancelled because of cost.
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Sponsored sessions: Astronomy in TYC (19 people in attendance).
Good session. TYC breakfast tomorrow in 213. No idea about how
many are registered. Show of hands showed most in attendance will
be there.
- Began of
a review of media ready room and review of sessions from programs
1.
- Went
over deadlines for Greensboro. Tipers with physlets, learning
physics while practicing science for workshops. Discussion should
Grants II be run in Greensboro. Changed to grants and will be
offered. Sessions of note will be a poster session in resource
room. Dwain will twist arms. Innovation in TYC curriculum. Done
by Karim. Computational physics in TYC by Steve. This will be
invited.
Suggested a possible TYC open house at a local TYC. Alex will
check into the possibility with Hubiz. Logistics need to be worked
out. At least try for Baltimore.
- Moving
on to Baltimore. Workshops in Baltimore (Jan. 19-23): TIPERS led by
Tom. Theo for Civic engagement looking for a co-sponsor. Karim EJS
look for co-sponsor with ed tech. Session in Baltimore: Panel
session comprehensive Universities and TYCs for pipe lines for
physics majors… Emerging technologies for wind energy courses
(Keith will preside and and Todd help set up). Service courses for
career programs (Karim will enter). Project based physics in the
TYC contributed (Martin will organize). Bridging the community and
TYC (Needs someone to preside). Crackerbarrell on concerns and
issue in TYC physics (Martin).
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New business:
- DD -
there was an area chairs meeting on Friday. Maybe the TYC committee
needs to move beyond planning the next meeting. There is an interest
within AAPT in service. You will see things from DD asking for input
on ideas that are probably coming down the pipe. MBM: There will be
newcomers on committees that don’t find support for their new ideas
since the committees were occupied with sscheduling of programs. The
TYC committee has done a good job of addressing its mission, but
they need to work on service beyond the business of the mettings.
SS: The conclusion of the recent board meetings appears to be that
the TYC committee can stay as it is. There does not seem to be any
push to get rid of the TYC committee. DD: Also share ideas on the
list serve.
- Keith
Clay congratulated Marv Nelson on having the Green River CC science
building named after him. And thanks to Mary Beth for serving on
the board.
Submitted
by Dwain Desbien
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Syracuse, New York, July 27 2006
The CPTYC meeting
was called to order at 8:00 AM by Steve Siegel
There were 14
members and friends in attendance. Officers in attendance were Mary
Beth Monroe and Dwain Desbien (TYC REP). Committee members in
attendance were Steve Siegal, Karim Diff, Tom Carter, Myra West and
Scott Schultz. Friends of the Committee in attendance were Larry Ward,
David Weaver, Paul D’Alessandris, Alex Dickison, Todd Leif, Bill
Wagoner, and Susie DiFranzo.
Scott Schultz agreed
to take notes for the minutes.
Minutes from the
meeting in Anchorage Alaska were reviewed and
approved.
Steve gave a review
of TYC sponsored events at Syracuse University, both those
that had already taken place and those yet to come.
Committee membership
was discussed in light of the fact that there are only 6 current members
instead of the standard 9. Both Todd Leif and Bill Wagoner from the
nominations committee were in attendance. It was also mentioned that
there was one person removed for not paying their membership dues and a
discussion to the process when this occurs.
Steve Siegel led a
discussion on the idea of having a TYC breakfast at Seattle. The idea
of having the committee meeting in conjunction of the breakfast was
proposed but it was decided that it would miss the goal of the breakfast
to help connect new TYC attendees. The discussion moved on to an
invited talk from either the new executive officer or Paul Hewitt.
Finally it was decided that a less formal cracker-barrel would be more
conducive to getting everyone involved and interacting and meeting each
other. It was decided that Tuesday morning might be the best time to
avoid the new attendees’ breakfast and that the committee meeting should
be Tuesday night so that it was afterwards.
Review of sessions
and workshops scheduled at Seattle was given by Steve Siegel.
Lively conversation
of poster session occurred with pros and cons discussed. Bill Wagoner
voiced his concern that we need to put in the number and type of
sessions that we feel would be most beneficial for TYC attendees.
This started a
discussion of sessions and workshops for
Greensboro.
Sessions
1.
Computational Physics in introductory physics
(???TYC???) *Steve, I didn’t get this, was this session directed at
TYC or just introductory physics)
2.
Innovations in two year college physics (Introductory talk followed by
poster session)
Short discussion on
workshops with Steve needing to talk to those that gave the workshops
this summer.
Committee members
present voted 100% to ask Harvey Leff to extend Steve Siegel’s term as
chair with Scott Schultz writing the email from the committee.
The meeting was
adjourned at 9:30 AM
Submitted
by Steve Siegel
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Anchorage, Alaska, January 23 2006
1. Call to Order
Sherry Savrdra served as
Chair for her last meeting as Chair of the TYC Committee
There were 15 members in
attendance. Officers in attendance included: Mary Beth Monroe, Chuck Stone
(Expiring TYC Rep), Dwain (new TYC rep), and our new TYC Committee Chair
Steven Siegel
6. Report on Anchorage
meeting to date
a. Session times were
shortened as an experiment that is going to run through the Seattle
meeting. This should help encourage people to use to poster sessions. It
was thought that food being provided at the poster session would also
encourage poster session attendance. Bill thought that adding Beer would be
an extra successful incentive.
Workshops: Theo
Koupolis’ workshop had only 1 participant. He did run it anyway and enjoyed
the discussion that ensued.
Curt H. had 8 participants
for his TIPER’s workshop.
Sherry discussed new methods
in divvying workshops amongst committees.
Each committee gets a total
of two workshops. But, if you share a workshop with another committee, your
share of that workshop is only ½ of a workshop.
7. Syacuse meeting
a. Deadlines
2/22
Invited Speakers list
3/16 Abstracts
3/25 Paper sort
Note: Session minutes are
reduced as an experiment that runs through the Seattle meeting.
b. Sponsored workshops
ISLE – I have no notes on
this
Engaging Students – I have no notes on this
TIPERs – by Curt H.
Grants 101 – Have Sherry fill in notes about this one.
Mary Beth wanted to know more
about the Council for Resource Development that is going to help out
with Grants 101 – it sounds like this group specifically aids TYCs
c. Sponsored Session
– Sherry reminds all people
submitting abstracts to please make them clear as it helps during the
paper sort.
d. Resource Room – everyone should bring stuff!8. Seattle Meeting – this is a joint meeting with
AAS.
a. Deadlines
5/2 Session and Workshop requests:
8/3 Invited speakers list
9/7 Abstracts
Discussion:
contributed talks are (8 + 2)
minutes. A lot of time was spent talking about his new time limit. It was
generally felt that the 10 minute model is better for research/technical
organizations and not appropriate for us.
b. Sponsored workshops
i. Teach Prep – by Keith Clay and the Green River
Comm. College gang (sharing workshop allocation with the Teacher Prep.
Committee)
ii. Grants part 2?
iii. Pat and Greg’s Energy Workshop (sharing workshop allocations with
“Outreach” committee)
c. Sponsored session: (these are 25 minute
talks for the invited talks)
Astronomy and the TYC
(Chuck’s idea)
Physics of Whales (Keith C’s idea)
Physics of Volcanos (Greg M’s idea)
8.5
Added:
Scott Schultz and Karim need TC Committee nom’s. Talk
to Todd Lief
Sherry’s report and additional discussion:
Clempson University is working on a class called “How
to become a TYC Professor”.
Sherry said she’d write an article for the “Physics Teacher” on “What it’s
like to teach at the TYC”.
Alex and Steve said that they wouldn’t mind getting involved in creating a
booklet oto help TYC Prof’s
It was pointed out that ACS has a booklet that might make a good template.
Chuck sys we should do a talk at the APS meeting on “What it’s like to teach
at a TYC”.
Other news: AAPT has assigned a staff member to
each area committee to act as a liaison. Marie Kouray is ours. We should
drop her a note or give her a call if we ever have general questions about
AAPT.
Submitted by Greg Mulder
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Salt Lake City,
Utah, August 8 2005
The
meeting was called to order by Chair Sherry Savrda at 8 AM. Twenty-two
people were in attendance. Guests included Eugenia Etkina, Rutgers
University and Juan B (Burciaga?) from APS.
Minutes of the last meeting were reviewed and approved.
Juan
announced that speakers are available during the World Year of Physics.
Some monies are available for speakers, and that interested persons should
contact APS.
Eugenia asked for co-sponsorship of a workshop under her and Alan Van
Heuvalen’s leadership which will center on their work in “active learning.”
Dwain
Desbian reported that the Nominating Committee is seeking names of people
for AAPT standing committees. Committee members are encouraged to send
recommendations to Dwain.
Sherry
reported on the meeting to date. The Energy workshop led by Pat Keefe and
Greg Mulder was well attended, and the Engaging Students workshop led by
Scott Schultz and Dwain Desbain, while having fewer attendees was well
received. It was noted that there are still problems with overlapping
session.
It was
reported that at Programs I, the committee Chairs discussed attempts to
schedule committee meetings so that they do not conflict with sessions. The
continued effort of AAPT to encourage poster presentations was also
discussed.
Sherry
discussed the progress so far on the Grants Task Force. The group has been
granted funding to travel to DC to meet with NSF program directors and
others, and will be meeting with Duncan McBride while he is in SLC. Plans
are being made for a tutorial and a proposal review panel to be available at
the resource room at future meetings.
Plans
for the Anchorage, Alaska Winter 2006 meeting were reviewed. Workshops are:
SENCER
and TIPERS. Sessions are: Physics and the Environment; Emerging
Technologies; Interdisciplinary Topics; and Crackerbarrel on
Maintaining Integrity
The
Photography of Natural Phenomena workshop and the session on Physics of
Winter Sports that were previously planned were not submitted.
Planning for the Summer 06 meeting in Syracuse took place.
Workshops:
TIPERS/PHYSLETS:
Tom O’Kuma
ISLE: Eugenia
Etkina
Engaging
Students: Scott Schultz
Grants-writing: Sherry will work on this; part of the Grants Task Force
initiative.
Sessions:
Energy
(inv/con): Martin Mason
TYC Grant
Initiatives (inv/con): Tom O’Kuma
Project-Based
Learning (inv/poster): Sherry Savrda
Physics of
Sports (inv/con): Eric Peterson
Outreach
Initiatives (con): Alex Dickison
Marv
Nelson described Fred Goldberg’s proposed network of TYC and 4YC schools
hosting and hosting workshops using his groups materials in physical science
for future elementary teachers.
The
possible cancellation of AAPT’s future winter meetings was discussed. The
CPTYC goes on record as opposing this change, and recommends that future
winter meetings be held over the MLK holiday weekend.
Meeting was adjourned at 9:30 AM.
Respectfully Submitted, Sherry Savrda and Marv Nelson.
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Albuquerque,
New Mexico,
January 2005
The meeting was
called to order by Sherry Savrda at 7:30 PM.
Those new to the
TYC Committee introduced themselves. They included _?_ Erickson and Gerhart
__?__ from NSF.
Minutes of the
last meeting were approved and the agenda set.
Tom O’Kuma
reported that application forms for the two workshops involving Introductory
Physics in the 21st Century (IPC21) are available.
Sherry noted her
yearly report of Committee activities was printed on the back of the agenda.
Sherry reported
the following Executive Board Actions:
Theme for Summer
05 will continue “Year of Physics 2005”.
- Poster
sessions will be encouraged as a means of reducing the number of paper
sessions.
- Strict
enforcement of existing guidelines that limit presenters to 1 invited
paper/year and 1 contributed paper/session.
- Invited
sessions must have a minimum of two invited papers.
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Invited/Contributed sessions must have at least one invited and one
contributed paper.
- Correctly
distinguish Workshops or Tutorials when applying.
Plans for Summer
05 @ Salt Lake
Confirmed
sessions are: Teacher Prep, Ranking Tasks, Cracker Barrel of “Coverage of
Material.”, Introductory Physics in the 21st Century(ICP21),
Innovations in Teaching Undergraduate Physics. There were no workshops
listed in the preliminary print out but Sherry will check on those that were
thought to be submitted. Sherry will also check with Keith Clay on the
status of a Teacher Prep Workshop or Tutorial.
Planning for Anchorage, Alaska Winter
2006
Sessions to be submitted:
Physics and the Environment (Sherry?)
Connecting Physics to Emerging Technology ( ?)
Interdisciplinary Topics in Intro Level Physics (A
contributed session, Myra?)
Physics of Winter Sports (Pat Keefe)
A workshop on photography and the
“Northern Lights” was discussed. Todd will consider. Steve Seigel suggested
that a Cracker Barrel session on “Keeping Integrity in Introductory Courses”
be held at the Anchorage meeting. He agreed to chair.
IT seems that NSF is viewing two-year
colleges in a very favorable light and would like to see more proposals from
them. The Executive Board is encouraging the pre-proposal panel discussed
at the last meeting. It was moved, seconded and passed that a task force be
created to decide on the best course of action for this committee.
Sherry passed out an outline for a
possible proposal from Aaron Winger concerning enhancing physics programs
through invigorated an engineering program. Aaron will help anyone
interested in pursuing such an endeavor.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:45 PM.
Respectfully Submitted, Marv Nelson.
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Sacramento, California, August 3 2004
The CPTYC
meeting was called to order at 8:00 PM by Sherry Savrda, Chair.
Those in
attendance were committee members Keith Clay, Sheraz Khan, Greg Mulder,
Sherry Savrda, Chuck Stone (ex-officio), and Jeff Watson; and friends
of the committee Steve Robinson, Scott Schultz, Fred Goldberg, Marv
Nelson, Dwain Desbian, Mary Beth Monroe, Curtis Hieggelke, Chitra
Solomonson, Marie Plumb, Ajay Narayanan, Pat Keefe, Alex Dickison,
Paul D’Alessandris, Tom O’Kuma, Bill Hogan, Tom Carter, Alan Van
Heuvelen, Eugenia Etkina, and Myra West.
Keith Clay
agreed to take minutes.
A call for
new agenda items resulted in the following additions:
- Spin-up
TYC report (Tom O’Kuma)
- PET
project (Fred Goldberg)
-
Nominating Committee (Dwain Desbian)
-
Resignation of Pat Robberts (Sherry Savrda)
- History
of TYC committee (Alex Dickison)
- ISLE
project (Alan Van Heuvelen)
- Salt
Lake meeting (Sherry Savrda)
Fred Goldberg (fgoldberg@sciences.sdsu.edu)
provided a synopsis of the PET course (75 hour course for teacher
training), and indicated that he felt that it would be valuable to
TYCs. He asked if there was interest in being involved with the
project and if the CPTYC would be willing to co-sponsor a workshop.
Marie Plumb, Marv Nelson and Paul D’Alessandris expressed interest.
The CPTYC agreed to post information on the committee website, and
agreed to co-sponsor a workshop.
The minutes of the Miami meeting
were reviewed. Bill Hogan noted that he was not present at the
meeting. Minutes were approved.
Ajay Narayanan indicated that some
past minutes were missing and were thus not posted on the website.
Sherry Savrda indicated that minutes and agendas would be forwarded to
Ajay for posting. It was agreed that links to TYC projects, upcoming
events, and World Year of Physics projects could also be added to the
site. The website URL is http://www.instruction.greenriver.edu/aapt/tyc
Alan van Heuvelen provided
information about the Investigating Science Learning Environment
(ISLE). Students in ISLE do experiments and look for patterns. He
asked that interested instructors contact him. He is especially
interested in hosts for workshops. Contact information was provided:
alanvan@physics.Rutgers.edu or http://paer.rutgers.edu/pt3
Participation in CPTYC sponsored
workshops and sessions at the Sacramento meeting was discussed. Curt
Hieggelke indicated that the TIPERS workshop had 12 attendees and was
successful. Greg Mulder stated that the Energy workshop was also well
received, with 15 participants. The Modern Physics and Issues
cracker-barrels both had about 15 people in attendance.
Sherry Savrda mentioned the
out-of-the-way location of the Resource Room. Bill Hogan indicated
the need for someone to be in charge of signing people up to staff the
room, to possibly meet on Sunday to plan staffing, or to have someone
go to the First-Timers meeting to invite TYC instructors to visit. It
was agreed that Sherry Savrda would look into the possibility of
scheduling a Resource Room open house during the hour prior to the
opening of the Exhibit Hall.
Sherry Savrda reported the
information provided during Programs I. The theme for both the
Albuquerque and Salt Lake meetings is the World Year of Physics, with
the Anchorage meeting focusing on the anniversary of AAPT. Most
discussion centered on possible constraints on future meeting
sessions. The perceived difficulty of an expanding number of
workshops and sessions, with the problems of overlapping sessions was
discussed. The problem of parallel sessions on similar topics was
also discussed. The draft constraints of a total of 40 workshops and
75 sessions were provided. Draft limits for the CPTYC are 5 sessions
and 2 workshops. Poster sessions are also being encouraged. Tom
O’Kuma noted that poster sessions are more work than presentations.
Discussion centered around whether or not overlapping sessions are
really a problem, the question of what people want from a meeting, and
how to get around scheduling problems. Paul D’Alessandris asked if an
increase in papers was really a problem or a sign of success.
Suggestions to take back to programs were: 1) Choices in sessions is
ok – why is this perceived as a problem? 2) Encouraging poster
sessions means they must be better integrated into the meeting and be
made more attractive to presenters/attendees. 3) Scheduling personnel
should watch for potential problems, like overlapping sessions
sponsored by the same committee. 4) Look at overall long-term trend –
is this meeting an anomaly or part of an overall increase?
Albuquerque meeting
Workshops
SENCER Project and Civic Engagement in the Physics Curriculum:
Co-sponsoring with Professional Concerns
TIPERS: Currently listed as sponsored by PER
– Sherry Savrda indicated that she would get the sponsorship
corrected.
Remodeling University Physics did not get
submitted. Dwain Desbian indicated that he was still interested in
doing the workshop. It was agreed that the workshop should still be
run, and Sherry Savrda agreed to get it in the program. Dwain will
submit abstract.
Sessions
Modern Physics at the Introductory Level
(Contributed): Sherry Savrda, Organizer
SPIN-UP/TYC (Invited): Tom O’Kuma, Organizer
TIPERS
(Invited): Tom O’Kuma, Organizer
Other sessions that had
been agreed on were not submitted: ICP/21, Physics and the
Environment, Innovations in Introductory Physics. It was agreed that
Physics and the Environment would be moved to Anchorage; Innovations
in Introductory Physics and ICP/21 would be moved to Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City meeting
Sherry
Savrda related the prioritized list of possible session/workshop
topics from the Issues in TYC Cracker-barrel, and suggested that they
be considered in planning for future meetings.
1)
Teacher prep workshop or session
co-sponsored with PER
2)
New faculty workshop or session
3)
Session or crackerbarrel on adapting
curriculum/courses to active learning
4)
Interdisciplinary topics
Workshops
for Salt Lake
Teacher Prep: Keith Clay will check with
Green River CC faculty about doing. Co-sponsorship?
Energy in the 21st Century: Greg Mulder
and Pat Keefe
Workshop for New TYC Faculty: Paul
D’Alessandris and Dwain Desbian will check on the possibility of doing
this.
Sessions
Innovations in Introductory Physics
(Invited/Contributed): Myra West, Organizer.
Crackerbarrel on Active Learning and Coverage Issues:
Scott Schultz, Organizer.
ICP/21
(Invited/Contributed): Tom O’Kuma, Organizer.
Ranking Tasks
(Invited/Contributed?): Curt Hieggelke, Organizer.
Teacher Prep (Invited/Contributed): Marie
Plumb, Organizer. Will check with PER and Teacher Prep committees
about co-sponsorship.
Bill
Hogan agreed to be in charge of the Resource Room.
Sherry Savrda asked the committee
to consider whether or not there were other projects the committee
would like to take on. She related the idea from the Crakerbarrel
concerning a possible grant proposal review panel for TYC faculty.
Dwain Desbian, as a representative
of the Nominating Committee, asked for nominations for committee
membership. Sherry Savrda related that Pat Robberts had resigned from
the CPTYC, but that her term expired in 2005. It was agreed to leave
her position vacant until new members were appointed. Dwain also
noted that there was an upcoming vacancy for the TYC member of the
board, and asked that the committee consider possible candidates for
that position.
Item 11 on the agenda (possible
grant sponsorship) was withdrawn by Sherry Savrda, based on incomplete
information having been provided.
The meeting was adjourned at 10
PM.
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Miami, Florida, January 26 2004
The CPTYC meeting was called to order at 7:30 PM by chairperson, Marie
Plumb.
Those in attendance were committee members: Keith Clay, Greg Mulder,
Chuck Stone, Patricia Robbert, Steven Siegel, Jeff Watson, Martin
Mason, Sherry Savrda and Marie Plumb; and friends of the committee:
Alex Dickison, Carolyn Haas, Bill Waggoner, Tom O’Kuma, Curtis
Hieggelke, Myra West, David Wright, Mary Beth Monroe, Dwain Desbien,
and Jack Hehn.
Martin Mason agreed to take minutes. It was announced that Sherry
Savrda will be the new chair of the committee.
Corrections were made to the minutes of the August 2003 meeting in
Madison. Curt Hieggelke indicated that he had discussed an
invited/contributed session on Ranking Tasks. The chair indicated
that the session had been submitted. There were also spelling errors
that were corrected and then the minutes were approved as corrected.
There was a discussion about putting
the minutes out on the website ASAP.
Ajay Narayanan from Green River CC is webmaster of the CPTYC website.
Keith Clay, also from Green River CC, will assist him.
The URL is ;
http://www.instruction.greenriver.edu/aapt/tyc
Bill Hogan has agreed to tend to the
list-serve for CPTYC.
Report on the Miami meeting to date:
1.
Largest attendance
2.
TYC sponsored workshops on ICP/21 and MBL were cancelled.
3.
TIPERS was offered under PER
4.
Physics and Civic Engagement was offered under Committee on
Professional Concerns
5.
Seems there were problems listing committees as co-sponsors. Marie
will bring this up at Programs Meeting.
Sacramento
Meeting:
1.
Energy Workshop will be offered by Greg Mulder and Pat Keefe
2.
Sessions:
a.
Teaching Physics for Health Careers-Contributed- Sherry Savrda
b.
SPIN-UP/TYC—Inv/Cont—Tom O’Kuma
c.
Modern Physics—Inv/Cont—Tom Carter
d.
Physics of Sports and Human Body in Intro Courses—Chuck Stone and
Carolyn Haas (Greg Mulder will give an invited paper)
3.
Crackerbarrel: TYC issues Bill Hogan
4.
TYC Resource Room—Bill Hogan
a.
Bill indicated a need to cover the room. When it is manned it is
utilized more. John White said he would try to get people to sign up
to cover the room.
i.
The following people signed up to work on resource room in
Sacramento:
1.
Alex Dickison
2.
Carolyn Haas
3.
Keith Clay
4.
Patricia Robbert
5.
Mary Beth Monroe
6.
Dwain Desbien
7.
Jeff Watson
8.
Martin Mason
9.
Sherry Savrda
10.
Marie Plumb
New Business:
1.
Sherry Savrda as a representative of Nominating Committee asked for
nominations for committee memberships.
2.
Sessions and workshops for January 2005 meeting in Albuquerque, NM
(January 8-12).
a.
Session: Innovations in Introductory Physics—Myra West (Inv/Cont)
b.
IPC/21st Century: Alex Dickison and Tom O’Kuma (Inv/Cont)
c.
Physics & the Environment : Carolyn Haas (Inv/Cont)
d.
Modern Physics at the Introductory Level: Sherry Savrda (contributed)
e.
TIPERS Workshop: Curt Hieggelke
f.
Re-Modeling University Physics Workshop: Dwain Desbien
Membership was asked to keep in mind that 2005 is the World Year of
Physics. Anything you already do for the community is possible
material that can be tagged with WYP. If you let APS know, they will
provide posters and will add your activity to the database of
activities. The sub-theme is Einstein in the 21st Century.
Meeting was adjourned at 9 PM.
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Rochester New York, July 23 2001
Bill Waggoner
(Metropolitan Community College) welcomed the members and guests
and called the meeting to order at 7:00. Introductions followed.
Members of the committee that were present included Chair Bill
Waggoner (Metropolitan CC), Bill Hogan (Joliet JC), Pat Keefe
(Clatsop CC), Denise Wetli (Wake Technical CC), Sam Nalley
(Chattanooga State Technical CC), Marie Plumb (James Town CC), Ben
Shaevitz (Slippery Rock Univ.), and Carolyn Haas (Salem CC).
Absent members Todd Leif (Cloud Co. CC), Chuck Stone (Forsyth
Technical CC)
Others present included Greg Mulder (Linn-Benton CC) Keith Clay
(Green River CC) Scott Schultz (Delta College) Peter Jeschofnig
(Colo. Mountain College) Herb Retcofsky (Spect. Soc. Of Pitts.)
Marilyn Atkins (Broome CC), Alex Dickison (Seminole CC), Tom
O'Kuma (Lee College), Sherry Savrda (Lake-Sumter CC), Curt
Hieggelke (Joliet Jr. College), David Ohlde (Pratt CC), Bernard V.
Khoury (AAPT), Patti Hughey (Lansing CC), John White (Modesto JC),
Paul D'Alessandris (Monroe CC), Dwain Desbien (Estrella Mountain
CC), Martin Mason (Palomar College), William M. Duxler (Los Angles
Pierce College), Mary Beth Monroe (SW Texas JC), Sina Knisely (AAPT),
Peter Hopkinson.
Announcements were called for.
Curt Hieggelke announced the funding of new TYC workshop grant.
The first workshop will be in Florida at Seminole Community
College. It will involve partnerships between high school faculty
and TYC faculty. There will be support for high school teacher's
transportation to attend, as well as the usual meeting costs, room
and board. The grant will be a 3-year grant program.
Tom O'Kuma announced that the second group of the Quantum Optics
PEPTYC program was now getting ready to start. The Quantum Optics
PEPTYC program involves a 2-week summer program (in May at Texas
A&M University) with follow-up sessions at the Texas Section AAPT
meetings in the Fall and Spring. The program is for 2 years and
the TYC participants will receive 6 hours of graduate credit for
each of the two years.
Agenda item Old Business-
Minutes of the San Diego meeting were circulated and approved with
out correction.
Copies of the final draft of the AAPT Guidelines for Two-Year
College Physics Programs were distributed.
Bill Hogan and Mary Beth Monroe were asked to give a status report
on the AAPT Guidelines for Two-Year College Physics Programs.
Bill Hogan reported those revisions and updates to the 1990 AAPT
guidelines have been completed and approved by this committee.
They now have been submitted to the publications committee for
review and approval. Mary Beth Monroe a member of that committee
acknowledged that this committee has approved these guidelines for
publication. They will be forwarded to the AAPT Executive board
for their approval at their October meeting. The guideline will be
published in booklet form pending board approval.
Bill Waggoner announced that the guidelines were available at TYC
website as a word document, and that copies were also available in
the TYC resource room at this meeting.
Agenda item --review of the workshops, and sessions at this
meeting.
Bill Waggoner gave a brief review of the committees sponsored
sessions and workshops for this, the Rochester, meeting. A list of
sessions and workshops was included with in the meeting agenda
that was distributed prior to the committee meeting.
Workshops included:
W03-Studio Calc/Physics: Combing Calculus, Physics, and Active
Learning (Co-Sponsored with Physics in Undergraduate
Education)W13-Successful Grant-Funded Projects W16-From Data to
Action with the LabPro
W38-Fun Experiments and Demos in Light, Color, and Spectroscopy
W45-TIPERs (Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research) in
Magnetism Workshop
Paper Sessions
AN-Physics for the General Populace--Sam Nalley Presiding
CJ-Directions for Interdisciplinary Studies--Denise Wetli
Presiding
DI-Success andn Failure Stories: Curriculum Adopters' Perspectives
-- Todd Leif Presiding replaced by John White
FE-Identifying and Helping Under Prepared Students--William Hogan
Presiding (It was noted that this had been mistitled in the
announcer.)
Agenda item - TYC Newsletter – Martin Mason/Bill Warren
Discussion of the spring TYC connections newsletter occurred.
Martin Mason now of Palomar Community College edited, and Bill
Warren of Lord Fairfax Community College published and mailed the
newsletter. Martin agreed to edit and help publish another
Newsletter. Carolyn Haas volunteered her college as a possible
publisher and will handle the mailing. Bill Waggoner committee
chair indicated that the committee had some funds that could be
used to help with the mailing costs. Possible topics might
include; articles about the AAPT winter 2002 meeting in
Philadelphia, minutes from San Diego meeting and Rochester
meetings. Tom O'Kuma will write an article on NTFUP. Sherry Savrda
volunteered to write an article on the ICP/21 project. Bill Duxler
volunteered to write an article about lengthening engineering
physics meetings. Greg Mulder volunteered an article on linking
math and physics in a physics for non-majors class. Marie Plumb
and Dwain Desbien volunteered to write articles. Pat Keefe
volunteered an article as well.
Bill Waggoner volunteered to make issues of the newsletter
available online at the committee web site in word and pdf format.
Agenda item - Other Business
Bill Waggoner brought up the TYC List Serve. AAPT hasn't been able
to make the transition to hosting the list serve. The AAPT list
serv doesn't work. You can post a message without an error
message, but subscribers aren't getting the messages. This is an
ongoing problem with the share ware AAPT is using, and they are
working on replacing the software. The AAPT discussion board
software is available and works. In the meantime we will use the
old tyc21 list and the message board. To subscribe link to
<http://www.aapt.org/discus/>. The committee will continue to
pursue with Warren Hein of AAPT.
Agenda item - New Business
Nominations/Awards/AAPT web site. 7:40- 7:45
The need for the TYC community to participate in generating
nominations for AAPT national offices and AAPT area committees was
discussed. Bill Waggoner who is a member of the AAPT nominations
committee for this year encouraged people to submit nominations
for area committees as well as for the national offices. The
nominations committee is still looking for members for the area
committee on Physics in the Two-Year College. It was pointed out
by Carolyn Haas that we will need to nominate for two-year college
representative to the executive board during the fall/winter. This
year’s slate of candidates was in the summer announcer. Next years
candidates will be nominated by the early spring and will be
published in next summer's announcer. As a result the nomination
process for next year should begin now. Further, it was brought up
that awards happen before the winter meeting, and in particular we
should nominate people for these awards; Pre-college Teaching, and
Undergraduate Physics Teaching. Nominations for awards should be
sent in before October/November. If you are interested in
nominating people, talk to Mary Beth Monroe to get forms or get
them from the web at the following links.
(Nominations for offices and committees
http://www.aapt.org/aaptgeneral/nominations.html)
(Nominations for awards http://www.aapt.org/aaptgeneral/awards.html)
Peter Hopkinson who will be co-chairing the nominations committee
for 2002 visited the meeting, and asked for help in finding
nominees for both the national office, as well as the Two-Year
College area committee. He should be the lead contact to send in
nomination forms for the vice president, secretary, and two-year
college representative board positions. Bill Waggoner who is on
this years nominations
Agenda item - Efforts of the National Task Force on Undergraduate
Physics NTFUP
Tom O’Kuma gave an over view of NTFUP. (see handout file
NTFUP)
NTFUP, the National Task Force on Undergraduate Physics, is an
effort to revitalize undergraduate physics programs. It is a joint
effort of AAPT, AIP, and APS. Other partners in their efforts
include Exxon Mobil Foundation and PKAL. The SPIN-UP (Strategic
Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics) project of
NTFUP has recently received funding from the Exxon Mobil
Foundation. This project will survey physics departments at
four-year colleges and universities to ascertain what changes are
being made in their undergraduate physics program.
As part of NTFUP’s efforts, Tom, Mary Beth and Ruth are organizing
a SPIN-UP/TYC effort. Part of this effort will be to organize site
visits to 10 TYCs site visits by 3 individuals. Since most TYCs
don't have departments of physics, what is the “unit of change” at
a TYC? Who makes changes and who would finance it? As another part
of this effort, a survey of TYCs will be conducted. This effort,
if funded, would start in the fall of 2002. One of the outcomes of
the project would be to prepare case studies from each site visit.
This effort is the next step to TYC21 and could get an early
indication of how TYC21, TYC workshops, and PEPTYC projects have
impacted the classroom. If this effort is funded, the project
would be seeking volunteers to serve on site visit teams. Another
effort of SPIN-UP/TYC would be the training of future teachers.
Since 60% of all teachers take their science at TYC, TYC have a
major impact on how science is taught in K-12 schools.
Discussion proceeded. Curt Hieggelke pointed out that AIP would
survey TYC with the workforce survey. He suggested that AIP should
survey TYC every two years with this workforce survey. Tom O'Kuma
responded that AIP needs external funding to conduct a full survey
of TYC as they did in 1997-1998. NTFUP will work with AIP in this
effort.
It was suggested that AIP should do a survey every 5 years of TYC
colleges since they do the Four-Year Colleges every year.
The following motion was made and approved by CPTYC: The CPTYC
supports the SPIN-UP/TYC project on Strategic Programs for
Innovations in Undergraduate Physics at Two-Year Colleges. It
approves in principle this endeavor to determine the “unit of
change” at TYCs. CPTYC encourages the development of a proposal
for this project and the seeking of funding for this proposal.
Agenda item - Discussion of the Alarming rise Meeting costs and
response to AAPT
Discussion focused on feedback over the spring and summer from
Martin Mason, Tom O’Kuma and others to the chair Bill Waggoner
about meeting costs. Some email discussion about this topic has
already occurred via the list serve. Tom O'Kuma read a handout
into minutes. Carolyn Haas the two-year representative to the
executive board and ex officio member of the committee stated she
would take copies of report to the executive meeting. Bill
Waggoner proposed that we collect our personal data on how much it
cost for us to attend meetings so we could make our case if the
need arises.
A motion was made, and seconded. The motion passed to take to the
board. The Committee on Physics in the Two-Year College is very
concerned about the cost of meetings and its impact on Two-Year
College members of AAPT.
Agenda item - Discussion of the Alarming rise Meeting costs and
response to AAPT
Discussion focused on feedback over the spring and summer from
Martin Mason, Tom O’Kuma and others to the chair Bill Waggoner
about meeting costs. Some email discussion about this topic has
already occurred via the list serve. Tom O'Kuma read a handout
into minutes (see attached file).
Carolyn Haas, the two-year representative to the executive board
and ex officio member of the committee, stated she would take
copies of report to the executive meeting. Bill Waggoner proposed
that we collect our personal data on how much it cost for us to
attend meetings so we could make our case if the need arises.
A motion was made, and seconded. The motion passed to take to the
board. The Committee on Physics in the Two-Year College is very
concerned about the cost of meetings and its impact on Two-Year
College members of AAPT.
Agenda item - Summary of Programs I Meeting
Bill Waggoner and Carolyn Haas gave a very brief description and
report of the Programs I meeting. The Philadelphia meeting was
discussed. One aspect of that meeting will be centered on the
topic of 9th grade Physics 1st, and how many more teachers will be
needed for HS. Also discussed at the programs I meeting was the
new area AAPT committee on Teacher preparation. Len Jossen will be
Chair. Mary Beth Monroe is an official friend. It was noted that
that committee would be meeting at Rochester on Tuesday at 1:30.
Several members of the TYC committee and friends of the committee
volunteered to attend. Also, there will be an invited session on
Teacher Prep for Philadelphia. This committee agreed to volunteer
as a cosponsor of this session. Also in this regard Greg Mulder,
and Ben Shaevitz will write articles for newsletter.
Agenda item - The 124th National meeting of AAPT, Winter Meeting
Philadelphia Marriott, Jan. 19 – 23, 2002
Bill Waggoner gave a brief review of the committee's activities
for the upcoming winter meeting.
Proposed sessions have invited Speakers list due 8/17, and an
abstract deadline 9/4.
Invited/Contributed sessions in the program include;
Todd Leif (organizing/presiding)- Technical Physics a Different
Breed of Cat? Experiences From Teaching a Technical Physics Class
Sam Nalley (Sam is organizing and Martin Mason is
presiding)-Teaching Physics Online. Sam Nalley will be speaking.
Nader Noori (organizing/presiding) - A Conjecture Oriented Method
in Physics Education - co sponsored with HS area committee
Invited sessions in the program include;
Martin Mason (Martin is organizing, and Sam Nalley is presiding)-
Revitalizing the Physics Course for Non-majors. Louis Broomfield
and Chuck Stone have agreed to speak. Martin Mason will speak.
At Philadelphia the area committee on Physics in the Two-Year
College committee meeting is set for 7 or 8 PM Saturday night.
The question of whether we should request a resource room at the
winter meeting was raised. The consensus was that do to the
smaller attendance of TYC committee members and friends we
wouldn’t have the ability to staff the room, or the interest
necessary to make it viable.
Bill Waggoner reported that it was too late to add workshops for
this meeting but we could still add session, in particular
cracker-barrel sessions. Discussion proceeded to the topic of a
cracker-barrel on NTFUP as well as having a generic Cracker-barrel
on TYC issues. Tom O'Kuma and Mary Beth Monroe agreed to organize
a Cracker-barrel session "Issues in two-year colleges. (NTFUP)"
Philadelphia Workshops in the program include;
Curtis Hieggelke - TIPERS in Magnetism
Herb Retcofsky - Fun Experiments and Demos in Light, Color and
Spectroscopy co sponsored with pre-HS
Agenda item - Other New Business
There was no other new business brought up.
Agenda item -125th National Meeting - 2002 Summer Meeting Aug. 3
–7 2002 Boise State University
Bill Waggoner called for suggestions of meeting themes and action
areas to be considered in planning next summers meeting at Boise.
Discussion occurred.
Bill Hogan suggested that we have a cracker-barrel on TYC issues
scheduled on a regular basis to identify issues that might become
the focus of future sessions. Bill Hogan agreed to lead such a
cracker-barrel at Boise.
Bill Waggoner suggested a day on distance education that would
include, online courses, distance education courses, and hybrid
classes. Discussion followed.
Teaching labs online was suggested as a great topic. Thoughts
expressed by the audience included - "This day would include paper
and cracker barrel sessions." "We would possibly use the success
and failures format of some of our past session, and concentrate
on hearing speakers who had the don'ts as well as the do's to talk
about."
After the agreeing to revisit this later in the evening,
discussion of this was tabled. The agenda proceeded to identifying
workshops and sessions.
Agenda item - Call for sessions and workshops for Boise.
Call for paper sessions- (Note requests are due to AAPT by 10/15)
Proposed sessions discussed included:
A session on Integrating Pedagogy into Engineering courses
focusing on pedagogy. Suggestions included (1) Get an ABET
speaker. (2) Get a TYC faculty that teaches statics and dynamics.
(3) Get engineering speaker. Martin Mason volunteered to
organize/preside
Success and failures in Teaching Labs via distance Education. Bill
Waggoner volunteered to find an organizer/or would organize. Peter
Jeschofnig agreed to speak or help.
Innovative Grant Funded Programs in TYCs - Sherry Savrda will
organize.
Session on assessment or assessing (this isn't clear but is on the
transparency .. not in Martin's notes) John G. (John White?) and
Patti Hughey (?) to organize.
Session on Energy/Energy Policy - Pat Keefe and Greg Mulder to
organize
Call for Workshops- (Note Workshop Requests are due to AAPT by
10/15)
Proposed workshops discussed included:
ICP/21 workshop- Alex Dickison and Sherry Savrda
Successful Grant Funded Projects - co sponsored with undergraduate
committee. - Curt Hieggelke and Duncan McBride
Basic Micro Computer Based Labs (MBL) - co sponsor with the
Laboratories committee- Tom O'Kuma, Sherry Savrda, and Marie Plumb
Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research (TIPERs)- co
sponsored with the Committee on Physics Education Research- Curt
Hieggelke, Tom O'Kuma, and Dave Maloney.
Light and Color Spectroscopy - Herb Retcofsky co sponsored the
Committee on Physics in Pre-High School Education.
Computer Software for 1st Year College and High School Physics
teachers-Herb Retcofsky co-sponsored by the Committee on Physics
in High Schools
Herb Retcofsky proposed a computer software workshop that was well
received by the committee. The workshop would include
demonstrations of a variety of software programs such as Math
Plot, FitKit, and Graphical Analysis as well as programs on
radioactive decay, chemical and physical periodicity, atomic
spectroscopy, and others. Workshop participants would receive
their choice of programs (for retention) for use in their own
classrooms. The workshop is tentatively titled “Computer Software
for 1st Year College and High School Physics teachers” and would
be co-sponsored by the Committee on Physics in High Schools. Ben
Shaevitz volunteered to assist with the workshop and possibly be a
co-presenter with Herb. Barbara Lotze will also assist. The
software would be provided by the Spectroscopy Society of
Pittsburgh.
Call for Cracker-barrels- (Note Cracker-barrel requests are due to AAPT by 10/15)
Proposed Cracker-barrels discussed included:
Cracker-barrel on TYC issues (Identifying action areas, goals and
themes to base future CPTYC sessions to contribute to meetings)
Bill Hogan to organize/preside
Cracker-barrel on online courses in physics and astronomy. - Bill
Waggoner to organize/preside.
Call for TYC Resource Room- the community and committee
unanimously agreed to hold a TYC resource room at Boise. -
Organizer yet to be decided.
The time for the committee on Physics in the Two-Year College
meeting was left to the chair's discretion.
Agenda item - 126th National Meeting –2003 Winter meeting Jan 11-
15, Renaissance Austin Hotel, Austin TX
It was mutually agreed to table this item for online discussion as
well as discussion at Philadelphia.
It was moved and seconded that the meeting be adjourned.
The meeting adjourned at 9:25
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San Diego, California, January 9, 2001
Submitted by Bill Hogan
Introductions
Bill Warren chaired the
meeting. Other committee members attending were Sam Nalley, Bill
Waggoner, Todd Leif, and Bill Hogan. Visitors included Martin
Mason, Mike Crivello, Patricia Robbert, Curt Hieggelke, Alex
Dickison, George Bedard, Mary Beth Monroe, Salley Heath, Seraz
Khan, Robert Greeney, Keith Clay, Bob Speers, Carolyn Haas, Leslie
Dickie, Warren Hein, Bill Duxler, Steven Siegel, and Chuck Stone.
The meeting started with everyone introducing themselves.
Announcements
Bill Warren asked if there
were any announcements. Mary Beth Monroe informed everyone that
the TYC21 book about removing barriers was available at the
registration desk and would soon be mailed out. Curt Hieggelke
announced the last scheduled workshop of the TYC Physics Workshop
Project would take place in Houston in February and that there was
still a short time to apply. Carolyn Haas gave a short report on
the AAPT executive board activities and told the committee, among
other things, that AAPT plans to survey membership in the near
future about what the members want from AAPT and that the Powerful
Ideas in Physical Science demonstration project will go ahead
shortly.
For some reason, there was
a discussion during the announcements about how one goes about
becoming a member of the committee. Pat Robbert, Bill Duxler, and
Seraz Kahn expressed interest in perhaps becoming members.
CPTYC-Sponsored Sessions
at Winter 2001 Meeting in San Diego
There was one workshop and
two sessions sponsored by the committee at the winter AAPT meeting
in San Diego. The workshop covered TIPERS and Curt Hieggelke
reported that it went well and was well-attended. The two sessions
dealt with preparing K-12 teachers and physics programs at
two-year colleges and there was a general feeling both sessions
had gone well.
CPTYC-Sponsored Sessions
at Summer 2001 Meeting in Rochester
There are currently four
workshops sponsored by the committee submitted for Rochester:
TIPERS with Curt Hieggelke again, Grant Writing with Curt
Hieggelke and Duncan McBride from NSF, Using Lab Pro with Fred
Thomas, and Calculus/Physics Interdisciplinary Courses.
There was discussion about
three other workshops which had not been submitted for Rochester
but which had been discussed in Guelph at the Summer 2000 meeting:
ICP21 with Alex Dickison, Basics of MBL with Tom O’Kuma and Sherry
Svarda, and Spiral Physics with Paul D’Allesandris. Alex Dickison
indicated he would like to submit the ICP21 workshop. No one was
certain of the status of the Basics of MBL or Spiral Physics
workshops. There was some concern that AAPT’s completely
electronic submission system had caused some foul-ups.
Bill Warren mentioned that
AAPT has indicated that it is concerned about the large number of
workshops planned for Rochester (not just ours) and that there may
not be enough space. The consensus at the meeting was that our
planned workshops are expected to be well-attended and all should
go forward with our support. The possibility of moving some
workshops to Monroe Community College (Paul D’Allesandris’ home
institution) near Rochester was mentioned.
Five sessions sponsored by
the committee have been submitted for Rochester: Successes and
Failures of Curriculum Adapters organized by Todd Leif,
Underprepared Students organized by Bill Hogan, Physics for the
Populace organized by Sam Nalley, Interdisciplinary Courses
organized by Denise Wetli, and a "crackatorial" (allegedly a
combination of a crackerbarrel and a tutorial) on assessment
organized by Bill Waggoner. Lief, Hogan, and Nalley reported that
they had already found speakers for their sessions. Everyone was
reminded that the deadline for submission of abstracts for
Rochester is April 6, 2001.
The committee again plans
to try a resource room at the summer meeting as it did in Guelph.
Bill Waggoner volunteered to oversee the organization of the room.
Bill Hogan suggested it would be valuable to have people scheduled
to sit in the room at peak times.
Status of the Guidelines
Revision
Bill Hogan gave an update
on the revision of the AAPT Guidelines for Two-Year College
Physics Programs booklet. Hogan had spoken about the proposed
revisions at a session earlier in the day. Hogan distributed a
list of proposed revisions to everyone at the committee meeting
and asked for input. Hogan indicated that he has to update some
statistics and references before the revision is finished for his
part. After that the revision has to be proofread, approved by
COPATYC, approved by the publications committee of AAPT, and
approved by the executive board of AAPT before it can be
published. The goal agreed to was to have the process move forward
at a pace such that the executive board can vote on the revision
at its April 6, 2001 meeting. Bill Warren proposed that the AAPT
stipend for revising the guidelines be given to Bill Hogan to
distribute as he chose and the meeting agreed.
Status of the Connections
Newsletter
Martin Mason reported that
he and Ben Shaevitz had discussions following the Guelph meeting
and agreed it would be good if the newsletter continued but that
it requires some infrastructure and a person to be in charge.
Martin Mason agreed to edit a newsletter which will go out before
Rochester and Bill Warren indicated that he would arrange for his
college to handle the copying and mailing. Bill Hogan agreed to
contribute a short article about the guidelines revision. Martin
Mason was encouraged to include content promoting the workshops
and sessions to be held in Rochester. Warren Hein suggested that
the newsletter could be completely electronic but others felt that
would not be able to reach people who are not already involved.
Status of Listservs and
Web-Site
Bill Waggoner and Warren
Hein reported that a listserv had been set up through AAPT with
the name
TYCPHYS-L@AAPT.ORG
but that there hasn’t been much traffic. People were encouraged to
use the listserv and it was suggested that these minutes and
updates on the guidelines revision could be sent out to the
listserv. Bill Waggoner also reported that he continues to
maintain the committee’s web-site which can be linked to through
the AAPT home page under committees and that he needs to do a
little cleaning up.
CPTYC-Sponsored Sessions
for Winter 2002 Meeting in Philadelphia
Curt Hieggelke agreed
to run the TIPERS workshop again in Philadelphia and Alex Dickison
agreed to run the ICP21 workshop again in Philadelphia. The Basics
of MBL Workshop run by Tom O’Kuma and Sherry Svarda was mentioned
as another possibility but there was concern about access to
computers and lab space at a conference center. Carolyn Haas
suggested the possibility of holding the workshop at her home
institution of Salem Community College in New Jersey which she say
is a short ride from Philadelphia.
Sam Nalley volunteered to
organize a session on on-line courses but indicated that he will
need someone to preside since he wishes to speak at the session.
Todd Leif volunteered to organize a session on technical physics.
Alex Dickison volunteered to submit a crackerbarrel about two-year
colleges and The Physics Teacher and will invite Karl
Mamola, the new editor, to attend. Martin Mason suggested a
session on methods to increase enrollment in courses for
non-science majors. Bill Waggoner stated that if he wanted to see
such a session, he should organize it and the committee would
sponsor it. It was also mentioned that the author of How Things
Work, Louis Bloomfield, would be a good speaker to invite to
such a session. It is not clear from my notes whether Martin Mason
committed to organize this session for Philadelphia or for a
future meeting.
CPTYC-Sponsored Sessions
for Summer 2002 Meeting in Boise
Curt Hieggelke had
given a talk earlier in a session in San Diego about two-year
college physics faculty involved in physics education research and
various innovative physics programs at two-year colleges. It was
suggested that it would be a good idea to sponsor a session in
Boise with invited talks by some of the people mentioned in Curt’s
talk. No one volunteered to organize this session.
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Guelph Ontario, Canada, July 31, 2000
Submitted by Todd Leif
Bill Warren brought meeting to order at approximately 8:07 p.m.
in McNaughton Hall Room 317, on the campus of Guelph University in
Guelph ON Canada. Upon initiation of the meeting agenda William T.
Waggoner passed around a roster sheet for members who were
attending to sign. The official list included the following
people.
Meeting attendance, Bill Warren, CPTYC Chairman, Committee
Members, Sam Nalley, Ali Yazdi, Denise Wetli, Bill Hogan, Todd
Leif, Ben Shaevitz
and Bill Waggoner.
Others attending: Carolyn Haas, Duncan McBride, Chad Davies,
Michael Neuschatz, Curtis Hieggelke, Marv Nelson, Paul
D’Alessandris, Martin Mason, Mary Beth Monroe, Pat Keefe, Sherry
Savrda, Greg Mulder, HC Snyder, Marie Plumb, Myron Mann, Patricia
Robbert Seetha Subramanian, Tom O’Kuma, Alex Dickison, Jack Hehn,
Warren Hein, Scott Schultz, William Duxler
(note 30 names were signed into the roster, however a number of
other people "poked" there head into the meeting. Eight of nine
CPTYC members were present!)
(1) Minutes of the Winter CPTYC committee meeting held at
Kissimmee Florida were distributed and approved by a vote without
corrections or major discussion.
(2) Committee Chairman Warren asked for a report from current
AAPT board Member Carolyn Haas (Two Year College Representative to
the Executive Board).
Carolyn talked about the strategic planning session which was
held the week prior to the actual AAPT meeting The major topic
of the planning conference was the creation of the following
vision statement, mission statement and critical issue
statements.
Draft Vision Statement: AAPT will be recognized as the leader
in Physics Education
Working Mission Statement: To enhance the understanding and
appreciation of physics through teaching.
Three Critical Issues
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Increase AAPT’s outreach to and impact on physics teachers
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Increase the diversity and number of physics teachers and
students
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Improve the pedagogical skills and content knowledge of
teachers of physics at all levels
She addressed the meeting with the question "What can we
recommend to the AAPT board to accomplish the goals found within
this collection of the statements. A brief discussion followed
with ideas being collected by Haas to be forwarded on to the
AAPT board.
(3) The next agenda item was an explanation of an ATE grant
proposal being written by Warren Hein AAPT executive officer.
The ATE grant proposal will hopefully draw moneys into the
TYC community since the recent moneys related to articulation
and teachers prep workshops have ended. With the large TYC
influence on teacher education and pre-service teaching, the
Powerful Ideas in Physical Science curricular experience is a
desired curricular program to distribute into the Two Year
College systems. The proposal includes CO-PI’s Charlotte Hill
-Tyrant CC, Todd R. Leif - Cloud County Community College, and
possibly Sherry Savrda - Lake Sumnter Community College. It
will attempt to bring six 2-year college faculty and 18
elementary in-service teachers to host community colleges to
hold workshops related to using the PIPS materials. Warren asked
for committee for feedback and endorsement of such a project
proposal. After a brief discussion William T. Waggoner made a
motion that the committee endorse this ATE Grant proposal,
receiving a second and a vote, the committee agreed to give such
endorsement. Motion passed. Chairman William Warren will write a
letter of support for this event.
(4) TYC 21 project CO-PI Marv Nelson, of Green River CC gave
brief comments on TYC 21.
All remaining funding will expire for the project very soon.
With limited remaining funds three projects have been
supported. Tim Dave is having a "chicken soup conference" in
California, while Ali Yazda is working on production of
workplace physics problems, in Alabama, and William T. Waggoner
and Todd Leif are working on production of "Husker Video"
Problem expansions in the Nebraska and Kansas regions. These
explorations and exercises are being funded to keep networking
regions active.
(5) Curt Hieggelke addressed the meeting.
At the Winter meeting in Kissimmee Florida Joliet Jr. College
Physics Instructor Curt Hieggelke received an endorsement from
the committee for plans for a large centennial meeting of SMET
representatives to be hosted at Joliet, Illinois. This event
would be corresponding with the 100th anniversary of
J.J.C. and their centennial celebration. Curt has decided to
withdraw from such a project and politely thanked the committee
for their endorsement and assistance with the project. Curt also
reminded the group of the 3 remaining TYC workshops that are
still being advertised for the upcoming year. These workshops
are currently the last scheduled funded workshops from the
highly successful project known as TYC Workshop Project that
Curt and Tom O'Kuma have provided for the TYC community during
the past decade.
(6) Communications within the TYC populace was the major
discussion item next on the agenda.
William T. Waggoner lead a discussion about the following
areas. The various TYC-21 email alias, questions of a need for
continuation of the TYC newsletter (connections) and the
communication coordination between AAPT and CPTYC was discussed.
What are some possible resources for keeping this newsletter?
Production and mailing of an issue of Connections has cost about
$1000.
Would an electronic newsletter be effective or adequate? In
either case an editor would be needed, and TYC faculty would be
expected to provide content.
Curt Hieggelke suggested that minutes of meeting be sent out
electronically. William T. Waggoner. reminded the group that
they are being distributed to several email alias and they are
posted at the CPTYC Web site after each meeting. The web site
does house minutes from the last 4 meetings..
William Warren, William Waggoner and Curt Hieggelke appointed
themselves as a committee to organize the general communications
for the CPTYC committee with William T Waggoner still offering
to host the CPTYC web page, general TYC list serv and now the
newsletter. William Warren offered to look into his school
covering a mailing until other resources were found. The use of
pdf files for a web-based down loadable newsletter were
suggested.
Article requests for this newsletter were made of this group
and the rest of the larger TYC community.
Martin Mason made a comment that the hard copy newsletter was
a good recruitment tool for new and changing faculty. This was
reinforced by a number of members who were in attendance.
A motion to form an ad-hoc committee to investigate funding
sources was made. Ben Shaevitz. Todd Leif and Martin Mason will
work on this funding project. It was also noted that AAPT might
have some funds to assist on this and Alex Dickison would be
contacted for additional clarification.
Ben Shaevitz, and Bill Waggoner agreed to brainstorm editing
a newsletter and publish it, via the web, the list serv, and
perhaps in a hard copy format.
(7) Chair Bill Warren reported on the AAPT Programs I meeting
on Saturday. The general program planning for for the Winter AAPT
meeting in San Diego is now set. A cracker barrel session to
discuss the on going project to revise the AAPT guidelines for all
TYC Programs has been added to the winter program. Committee
member William Hogan also encouraged attendance Tuesday night at
his cracker barrel to discuss the importance of this document to
accreditation agencies and administration.
It was stressed that the community at large be aware of the
importance of revising these guidelines.
A recommendation to have invited and contributed papers added
to this session was discussed. Tom O'Kuma volunteered to chair
this session and invite William Hogan to present the formal
guidelines to the community as a whole. Tom volunteered to find a
suitable speaker for this session, who will be able to highlight
the large number of projects currently going on in the TYC
community.
(9) The committee then decided that the cracker barrel for San
Diego should be replaced with a cracker barrel to discuss general
TYC issues including the TYC white papers. This will be done at
the programs II meeting at Guelph.
(10) We will also ask for the repeat of a TYC resource room.
Those who used it felt it was worth while in keeping an active
presence at future meetings. Most of membership agreed and the
suggestion of an open house type event might be posted for the
room in the evening times.
(11) A brief overview of the program at San Diego was presented
and a reminder of the August 20th Invited Speaker
Deadline was noted.
(12) A review of San Diego Workshops that are in the program
followed. They are:
TIPERs- Curt H, Tom O, David Maloney
Guidelines Session- Tom O'Kuma
Bill Hogan invited speaker
Connections to TYC and K-12 Greg Mulder – Linn Benton CC
Connections to TYC and k-12 John Griffin – Linn Benton CC
Liberal arts courses Todd Leif Cloud County CC/ Jan Mader –
Physics for Public
Liberal arts courses Todd Leif/Jan Mader- CO sponsored with the
Physics for Public Committee
An Astronomy Paper Session - Martin Mason this was turned in
but wasn’t formally shown at programs I. Chairman Warren will look
into this question.
(13) The committee proceeded with program planning for Summer
AAPT Meeting in Rochester, NY.
The five TYC goals and the themes that were to drive our
sessions for this event were reviewed. We were reminded that the
submission deadline is October 15th for these sessions.
Discussion of these themes, sessions, workshops and cracker
barrels followed. The following tentative program was suggested.
Workshops:
Spiral Physics – Paul D’Alesandris
Calculus and Physics Combined – Dawn Meredith c0- sponsored
with the Undergrad. Ed. Committee
Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research "TIPERs"- Curt
Hiegellke, Tom O’Kuma, David Maloney co- sponsored with the
Physics Education Committee.
Grant Writing- Duncan McBride Curt Hieggelke
Introductory College Physics for the 21st Century
ICP21- Alex Dickison
Basic MBL- Tom O'Kuma, Regina Barrera, Sherry Savrda
Sessions: Invited and Contributed
Success and Failures some curriculum adopters perspectives-
Todd Leif presiding
Under Prepared Students- Bill Hogan presiding
Assessment- Bill Waggoner presiding
A Saturday night social possibly at Monroe Community College
and a "social" cracker barrel may be included.
(14) The White papers authored by the TYC 21 Steering Committee
were briefly discussed.
Bill Warren noted that copies were available in the TYC
resource room. He thanked those committee members who have
responded to the recommendations, and encouraged others to do
so. The committee agreed to make recommendations to the
Executive Board of AAPT regarding the issues in these papers.
One common recommendation in these papers is that the CPTYC
act to improve communication between the CPTYC and the Executive
Board. The committee agreed to ask that the TYC representative
to the Board be made an ex officio member of the CPTYC.
(15) The meeting was adjourned at 9:15.
Minutes prepared and edited by
Todd R. Leif
leift@cloudccc.cc.ks.us,
and Bill Warren
LFWARRB@lf.cc.va.us
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Kissimmee, Florida, Jan 16 ,2000
Submitted by Martin Mason
Bill Waggoner called meeting to order at 8:00
Attending:
Sam Nalley, Bill Waggoner, Todd Leif, Tom OKuma, Curt Hieggelke, Tom Hudson,
Martin Mason, John Griffith, Alex Dickison, George Bedard, Greg Mulder, Bob Speers, Mary
Beth Monroe, Bob Watson, Marv Nelson, Jonathan White,
(No sign-in sheet was passed around. Whom have we missed?)
(1) Introductions were made and minutes from S.A. were distributed.
Several people wished to make announcements:
Mary Beth Monroe gave a brief overview of the TYC21 project.
Mary Beth also asked the CPTYC members for recommendations on the TYC21 steering
committee white papers. The CPTYC members need to make recommendations to the steering
committee.
She stated "The recommendations we are asking for are not to specifically address
critical issues. I would say that we are asking the committee after reviewing the SC white
papers and recommendations, to formulate recommendations to go to the Executive Board,
which concern the self-sustaining aspects of the regional and national TYC21 networks.
Specifically are there services that were provided by TYC21 that the TYC committee feels
ought to be continued and would need support from the Board? I suggest that the Committee
and Steering Committee work together to develop this list."
"The committees will meet before Guelph to develop recommendations that will be
endorsed by the CPTYC and sent to the AAPT executive board. The recommendations should be
sent to the Board in advance of the meeting. The Board needs to receive their meeting
packet in advance of the meeting. Bernie Khoury advises that we send the recommendations
about two weeks in advance of the Summer Meeting to both himself and Ruth Howes, the new
president."
Mary Beth also gave an update on the TYC21 project and project manager. Mary Beth
reported that TYC21 has received another one year, no cost extension. The TYC21 project
will officially end Feb. 28, 2001. She also announced the resignation of the TYC21 project
manager, Konyka Dunson. As the project is near completion, it is not feasible to advertise
for another project manager. Therefore a part-time person, Nadia McNeil, was hired to work
½ days during the week. In addition to responding to email communications and overseeing
administrative duties, she has assumed the responsibility for the editing and preparation
of the electronic newsletters. She has completed the January newsletter and will prepare
the May newsletter, which will be the last project newsletter. Nadias job will end
June of 2000. AAPT programs staff, Maria Elena Khoury and Annette Coleman will work
closely with Nadia during this remaining year of the project.
The question was raised, how much of this position and work do we, as a committee want
to take on. A call for volunteers to run TYC newsletter after June was made. It was
suggested that Myron Mann be asked for his input as he has ran a successful newsletter in
his region.
George Bedard
announced the upcoming Minnesota LCI state wide meeting 22-23 Feb.
Funds are available for travel and lodging. A hand out was distributed (for more
information contact George gbedard@uslink.net
Curt Hieggelke also made an announcement about the possibility of a Centennial
Community College Conference on Critical Issues in SMET at Joliet Community College. The
conference is currently planned to last three days and will be in the spring of 2001 in
connection with the Centennial Celebration of the Community College Movement. NSF and
private funding are being sought to support it. It is expected to consist of 3 days of
workshops for CC teachers/administrators in SMET. A motion calling for the committee to
endorse and support this conference and to forward said resolution to the executive board
of AAPT was made by Marvin Nelson and seconded by Tom OKuma. The motion passed
unanimously.
Bob Watson from NSF addressed the meeting. "There is a new liaison Norman
Fortunberry. ATE closing dates in April could be put back because of White House interest
in coordinating activities. We have moved from 0 funding in 80s to 50 million in
funding for CCs. This is good progress! There is news of concern: this year for
first time since beginning of ATE, budget is not increasing. Those concerned about
undergrad efforts at NSF constituency is required. AACC must work hard on congress. Look
for a new summary of programs on DUE web site. Budget distributed. "
Discussion followed. Curt commented that we have to write our congressional
representatives on the need for DUE support.
Bob Watson noted; " organizations are most effective in raising awareness, and
AAPT needs to pay attention and be policy oriented. DUE does not enjoy a broad
constituency. Vs. Research. Vs. Elementary and secondary education. The budget pressure
for ATE programs needs to increase. The number of institutions submitting proposals and
number of total proposals has not increased. For smaller more focused single discipline
proposals, i.e. in the $50,000. Range, activist success rate is good. "
Marvin Nelson made a motion to commend Bob Watson for job he has done. Curt
seconded and it passed unanimously.
A motion was made by Curtis Hieggelke to have the committee ask the executive board to
express our concern on (1) the flat funding of the ATE DUE program and (2) the decrease in
funding of the CCLI DUE program. The motion was seconded. Discussion followed. It was
stated that the committee expresses strong concern as to the lack of activism to promote
funding for undergraduate education. Discussion centered on how our organization needs to
take action to promote funding of our area, and that we express our concern about funding
level for ATE and undergraduate education to NSF. The motion passed unanimously.
(2) Bill Waggoner gave a brief summary of CPTYC sponsored events at this meeting.
Kissimmee Update
Sessions- Trends and Developments in Introductory Physics -Curt Hieggelke (Monday)
Physics Courses Integrated with Other Disciplines-Andrew Rex
Building Bridges and Partnerships-Bill Waggoner (Wed)
Workshops- Developing Conceptually Linked Research Based Exercises- Curt/Tom
Crackerbarrel Exploring Issues Critical for Two-Year Colleges Marv Nelson
(3) Bill Waggoner gave a Guelph update.
Sessions scheduled include
Distance Learning and Web Based Courses - Tom O 'Kuma
Failures and Success Stories: Some Curriculum Adopters Perspectives- Todd Leif
TYC21: What weve learned - Paul DAlessandris
Workshops scheduled include
Spiral Physics Active-Learning Workbooks -Paul D'Alessandris
Basic Microcomputer Based labsTom OKuma
Calculator Based Control SystemsFred Thomas
Introductory College Physics/21st Century
Fun Experiments and Demos in Light, Color, and SpectroscopyHerbert Retcofsky
w/Pre-Hs committee
Student ConfidenceBetty Preece w/ Women in Physics
Cracker Barrels include
TYC21 Regional Reports - Bill Warren
Adjunct Issues Sam Nalley/Bill Waggoner
Other sessions: Working Session on Revising TYC Guidelines Booklet -Bill Hogan
And we will have the TYC Resource Room!
Discussion followed. Bill Waggoner noted that the room wouldnt be able to hold
scheduled AAPT sessions/workshops/crackerbarrel. He then called for an organizer and ideas
for the TYC resource room. It was recalled how this room was intended to be a sharing
center when we discussed it at San Antonio. John Griffith noted we might have better
attendance if participants had something to take back and try. Make and Take show and tell
projects. Student Activities. The idea that this was to be an interactive area was put
forth.
Marv Nelson volunteered to be the contact on TYC resource room. It was suggested a call
be made to the regional coordinators to be responsible for the planning activities for
their regions use of the room. Other ideas included; everybody bringing a favorite
lab, and Regional update posters.
Other Discussion: Curt Hieggelke wanted to get approval from the chair to submit a post
deadline workshop "TIPPERS and RPE at GUELPH.". There was some question as to
whether we can get this approved /slipped in. Bill Waggoner and Curt agreed to pursue
this.
(4) Planning for the 2001 Joint AAPT/AAS Winter Meeting San Diego Jan 6 - 11 was next
on the agenda.
First Marv Nelson and Bill Waggoner made comments on TYC21 and the April Fort Worth
"Vision for Tomorrow meeting". At this meeting the Regional Coordinators,
PIs and the CPTYC members met. Marv gave a brief summary of this meeting where we
defined where we were going with the network. The AAPT is urging TYC to maintain network,
and the CPTYC will assume the mission of continuing the network and its development as
well as plan and foster new activities. At this meeting a Vision statement was written and
endorsed by the CPTYC.
Bill Waggoner read the vision statement: A Community Vision for Two-Year College
Physics Faculty
"As two-year college members of the physics community, we need to actively
communicate and promote our belief that physics is an important part of all students
education. Further, we believe that physics teachers who regularly communicate with each
other can share ideas and provide a better set of learning opportunities for their
students. Our network of physicists will sustain local and national conversations and
activities about methods and styles of learning and teaching. These conversations and
activities will support scholarship that is widely available, easily accessible and
invites comment and collaboration."
A list of 5 action areas was also developed at that meeting, and was listed on the
agenda.
Action Areas include (1) A link to future teachers, (2) Directions for
Interdisciplinary Studies, (3) The Under prepared Student, (4) Physics and the General
Populace, (5) Assessment
Bill Waggoner made the comment that the committee needed links to all the regions and
members of TYC21. Since we are at the beginning of this transition where we no longer have
a separate national meeting we are especially in need this input in planning future
contributions to the national AAPT meetings. Guelph is already planned and the San Diego
meeting is the first meeting we will plan. He suggested that since every region had a hand
in drafting this vision statement and these action areas via their regional coordinators,
and since the committee has endorsed them they would make excellent themes for future
sessions or meetings. Much discussion followed. It was suggested that since the summer
meeting will more likely be the better attended of the two national AAPT meetings that we
focus on just two of the action areas for San Diego and address the remaining three the
following summer at the Rochester meeting.
It was noted that this doesnt mean we have to plan exclusively around these
topics, and that any meeting contributions to the national meetings would be welcomed and
could be endorsed by the CPTYC. Several people commented that by focusing on these topics
we would gain an advantage in planning future meetings because we would be able to
communicate to the regions and regional coordinators the time line for the meetings
general themes much further in advance.
After further discussion it was moved, seconded and passed that the San Diego meeting
would address the action areas; Physics for the General Populace, and A Link to Future
Teachers.
Further discussion centered on the San Diego meeting. It was noted this is a joint
meeting with the American Astronomical Society and we will follow the AAS meeting format
of 1 ½ to 2 hour sessions, rather than the AAPT format. Marv Nelson made the comment that
we could view the focus areas as a thread for the meeting and we proceeded to discuss
possible themes for each area. Alex Dickinson suggested that a logical theme for the
Physics for the General Populace area should involve Astronomy.
After much discussion the following unifying theme was identified for the action area
Physics for the General Populace Physics and Astronomy as part of the liberal arts
education in two-year colleges.
The other theme would address the area of A Link to Future Teachers.
Discussion followed on having more sessions for each since they will be shorter. For
invited sessions we will have only. 3 people per session. Discussion followed on the
sessions for the two themes. A consensus was reached on the pursuing the following paper
sessions;
A Link to Future Teachers
1-TYC programs for instructing pre-service: John Griffin to preside
2- TYC programs for in-service teachers. Greg Mulder to preside
Physics for the General Populace Physics and Astronomy as part of the liberal
arts education in two-year colleges.
3- Physics courses for teaching the liberal arts student and other citizens. Possibly
given as a round table discussion. It was suggested that Paul Hewitt be asked to give an
invited paper- coordinator?
4- John White from the Committee on Science Education for the Public asked the
committee to sponsor a joint session. Dave Kriegler (who is at UNO) from the CSEPC will
work out the details with Bill Waggoner. White10@llnl.gov
5- Promoting astronomy at TYCs Possible speakers, Paul Marquard web based
delivery, David Iveta asynchronous delivery, Ashley (?) for clubs, Martin Mason to
coordinate.
3-Preliminary Guidelines. "Work from GUELPH" coordinated by Curt
Hieggelke (Maybe not? Maybe Bill Hogan.) A Cracker barrel was also suggested. The
committee will facilitate planning for this. It was agreed this needs to be on the agenda
at next meeting.
Curt Hieggelke called for a session to review the Working Session on Revising TYC
Guidelines Booklet being organized at Guelph by Bill Hogan. He felt we need to establish a
definite time line for undertaking this process. Much discussion followed on how we could
pursue this, and whether we would be able to have a paper session report on this. It was
suggested that the committee solicit an editor for the process. Among many suggestions one
was that we ask Bill Hogan (and the committee) to do this. Alex Dickinson proposed the use
of the venture fund stipend to redo the high school and TYC booklets. Alex pointed out
"The AAPT Executive Board approved $1500 from the Venture Fund to rewrite the TYC
Guidelines book. This can be for the editor or be split up among as many people as
desired. It is up to the people doing the work to decide how to split it." As editor
for the last revision Alex found the drafts needed input from everyone on the committee,
and from people throughout the TYC community. It was noted that this is especially trued
since the TYC community is so diverse that these Guidelines are trying to serve everyone.
The committee agreed to make a call for volunteers to the TYC list serves to work on
the TYC guideline booklet and pursue this. The following session and cracker barrel was
then agreed to.
4- Invited session report on preliminary guidelines/Cracker barrel/working session on
guidelines:
Where Bill Hogan would make report at the AAPT meeting on TYC booklet. Lots of input
and discussion followed.
Workshops identified for San Diego included:
1) Set of activities to deliver to in-service teachers at the elementary level.-- John
Griffith and Greg Mulder
2) TIPPERS in Magnetism --Curt Hieggelke
3) Spectroscopy Herb Retcofsky
Curt Hieggelke suggested the following workshop as an action area related to the
recommendation to the AAPT executive board resolution that was passed by the CPTYC in
response to Bob Watsons comments.
4) Grant Writing for TYCs. We would solicit Duncan McBride how to get funding for
your projects. Curt will ask Duncan.
It was suggested that the summer meeting would be a better meeting to have this since
attendance by the TYC community will likely be much larger than the San Diego winter
meeting. Curt agreed to look in to getting a post deadline workshop on grant writing for
GUELPH.
Discussion on a resource room for the winter meeting followed. Because of the smaller
number of TYC people likely to be in attendance it was questioned on how useful this room
might be. Nothing definite was decided.
A suggestion was made that an advertisement in announcer for the resource room as the
informal meeting location at Guelph be made.
Other discussion followed centering on the numerous list serves and aliases used
through out the TYC21 community. It was noted that we need to encourage the use of list
servs, particularly since the project manager position will end and the TYC21 newsletters
maybe go away. Alex Dickinson volunteered to explore the various list servs and
alias in use now. Alex will make recommendations to the committee on how to best
promote there use. It was stated that the AAPT would be setting up a list serv for each
committee. Alex will explore the list servs.
Other topics centered on the resource room, and activities, a need for a social
chairman, and a possible TYC beer bust(?). The CPTYC will make a call for ideas and
suggestions for the Guelph resource room.
(5) A brief discussion of the next agenda item the 2001 AAPT Summer Meeting Rochester
NY July 21 - 25 followed. It was agreed to center on the action areas: Assessment, The
Under Prepared Student, and Directions for Interdisciplinary Studies. It was agreed that
we consider holding another grant writing workshop again because of the availability of a
large TYC audience at this meeting.
- Bill Waggoner agreed to continue working on the next agenda item the TYC web page and
will communicate and promote discussion using the list serves.
- It was agreed to table the discussion of the final agenda item, the 2002 AAPT Winter
Meeting Jan 19 -23 in Philadelphia for a later date.
(8) The meeting adjourned by unanimous proclamation at 10:15 p.m.
Minutes prepared/edited by: mmason@dccd.cc.ca.us/ and
bwaggoner@metropo.mccneb.edu
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San Antonio, August 4, 1999
Submitted by Bill Hogan
1) Introductions
- Paul DAlesandris, committee chair, called the meeting to order at 8:30 PM.
- Those in attendance introduced themselves. Sam Nalley, Bill Waggoner, Bill Warren, and
Bill Hogan were the committee members in attendance. Other people interested in physics at
TYC's attending included John Hubisz, Denise Wetli, Carol Palma, Frank Palma, Ben
Shaevitz, Alex Dickison, Todd Leif, Rob Kimball, John Griffith, Tom OKuma, Curt
Hieggelke, Devan Whitley, Sherry Savrda, Myron Mann, Mary E. Burrows, Charlotte Hill,
Chuck Robertson, Jack Hehn, and Carolyn Haas.
- Minutes for the previous committee meeting in Anaheim in January were distributed.
2) Review of the TYC Tandem Meeting and AAPT Meeting in San Antonio, TX
- Paul DAlesandris began the discussion by asking, "How do we keep the same
energy in the future when well be integrated with the AAPT meeting?"
- There was general agreement that the one-day separate TYC meeting held on Monday had
been successful.
- Several people were concerned that many attendees of the TYC meeting did not stay for
the rest of the AAPT meeting. Did people only come to the TYC meeting because they were
reimbursed for their expenses?
- Paul DAlesandris expressed concern that 3 of the 5 workshops sponsored by the TYC
committee in San Antonio were canceled. Possible reasons for the cancellations were
discussed.
- Paul DAlessandris pointed out that future AAPT meetings will start on Saturday and
end on the following Wednesday and perhaps this would make it easier for faculty at TYC's
to attend.
- Paul DAlessandris informed the meeting that Bernard Khoury says TYC must be
integrated into the AAPT meeting in the future but it would be possible for TYC sessions
to be concentrated on one or two days and AAPT would publicize the TYC sessions.
- Paul DAlessandris suggested that the TYC committee should arrange for a TYC
resource room at future meetings similar to the PIRA resource room at current meetings.
This room would help TYC people find each other at the larger AAPT meeting. This room
might be used for "sharathons", crackerbarrels, or other sessions and might help
overcome the obstacle of AAPTs early deadlines for sessions.
- Curt Hieggelke suggested that it would be a good idea to have a theme unifying TYC
sessions and activities at future AAPT meetings. Curt suggested "Internet
Courses" as a possible theme.
- Alex Dickison commented that the TYC meeting was successful in part because of the
format of "focus sessions" which is not a format used in AAPT meetings. Alex
felt we should use the success of the TYC meeting as an opportunity to establish a new
format similar to "focus sessions" for future AAPT meetings.
- Several attendees worried that the TYC community might not have the time or resources to
attend two AAPT meetings each year. The feeling of the attendees was that it would be best
in the short term to start by strengthening the TYC presence in future summer AAPT
meetings and maintaining the current level at winter meetings.
- Rob Kimball pointed out that there has been a great deal of involvement at the regional
level by people who have not attended national meetings and suggested that these people
would be a good source of new manpower and ideas.
- Paul DAlessandris emphasized his belief that the TYC committee should only be
responsible for dealing with the paperwork and bureaucracy of any future sessions while
the entire TYC community is responsible for coming up with ideas for these sessions.
3) Discussion of the program for the Winter 2000 meeting in Orlando, FL
- Tom OKuma and Sherry Savrda will lead a workshop introducing participants to MBL.
- Curt Hieggelke, Dave Maloney, and Tom OKuma will lead a workshop on developing
conceptually-linked research-based exercises.
- Marv Nelson will preside at a crackerbarrel focusing on TYC issues. This crackerbarrel
should be scheduled in the evening early in the meeting such that it does not conflict
with the TYC committee meeting that should also be held in the evening early in the
meeting.
- Curt Hieggelke will organize one of the paper sessions to be sponsored by the TYC
committee on "Trends and Developments in Introductory Physics". Curt says the
session will be about Internet courses and the topics discussed at the 4th
Introductory Physics Conference Curt hosted in summer of 1999. Curt was very insistent
that he wished this session to be scheduled for Monday.
- Tom OKuma had planned to organize one of the paper sessions to be sponsored by the
TYC committee on "Distance and Internet Learning in Introductory Physics". Tom
suggested it might be good to postpone this session to a later meeting with Curts
session already covering Internet courses.
- No one had committed yet to organize one of the paper sessions to be sponsored by the
TYC committee that was planned as "Building Bridges Between TYC's and High
Schools". Todd Leif suggested we should expand this session to include building other
bridges such as with industry, four-year colleges, and the community as well as with high
schools. Bill Waggoner suggested we could get a new perspective by inviting the people who
are partners with TYC's to speak as well at the people at the TYC's. Bill Waggoner
volunteered to organize this session that will be changed to include all bridges not just
with high schools.
- Alex Dickison announced he will try to arrange a social gathering of TYC people
attending the Orlando Meeting.
4) Discussion of the program for the Summer 2000 meeting in Guelph,
Ontario
- Paul DAlessandris read a reminder from AAPT that Guelph is in a foreign country
and U.S. citizens planning to attend should bring a passport or birth certificate along to
prove citizenship because a drivers license alone is not sufficient.
- Curt Hieggelke suggested the TYC committee should sponsor a paper session at which the
white papers produced by the TYC21 steering committee would be presented. Paul
DAlessandris volunteered to organize this session.
- Paul DAlessandris brought up the possibility of having a crackerbarrel on TYC
regional activity. Alex Dickison felt we needed to clearly identify whether this regional
activity referred to the regions from TYC21. Alex also expressed his belief that focus
sessions are preferable to crackerbarrels because speakers who do a lot of work can get
credit for it. Bill Waggoner raised the issue of including Canadians in a discussion of
regional activity since the meeting will be in Canada. It was decided that Mary Beth
Monroe and/or Marv Nelson would be asked to organize a crackerbarrel on TYC21 regional
activity updates.
- Paul DAlessandris asked the attendees for ideas for topics to be addressed in the
sessions sponsored by the TYC committee. John Griffith suggested lab issues such as lab
pedagogy and lecture/lab compensation parity. Curt Hieggelke suggested the problems of
distance and Internet learning. Bill Warren reminded us that we need to start working on
an update of the AAPT Guidelines booklet for TYC physics programs. Myron Mann proposed a
session about the problems of adjunct faculty teaching many places (often with little
support) and Bill Hogan suggested expanding the session to include all adjunct issues from
the perspective of the adjuncts and from the perspective of the TYC community. Todd Leif
felt we should have sessions to address teaching in multiple disciplines and
interdisciplinary courses. Todd also suggested a session on the trials and tribulations of
field testing new curricula, software, and products.
- The meeting decided that the TYC committee would sponsor three paper sessions in Guelph.
The topic for one session will be distance learning and Tom OKuma will organize this
session (this session was originally planned for the Winter 2000 meeting in Orlando). The
topic for another session will be the impact of new curricula at TYC's and Todd Leif will
organize this session. The topic for the third session will be the white papers written by
the TYC21 steering committee and Paul D'Alessandris will organize this session
- The meeting decided that the TYC committee would sponsor three focus sessions in Guelph.
The topic for one session will be updating the AAPT Guidelines booklet and this session
will be a working session organized by Bill Hogan. Sherry Savrda expressed her interest in
being part of the revision team. The topic for another focus session will be TYC21
regional updates and Mary Beth Monroe and/or Marv Nelson will be asked to organize this
session. The topic for the third session will be adjunct issues and Tim Dave and/or Gordon
Aubrecht were suggested as possible organizers. The possibility of Gordon using his
"True Confessions" format where small groups discuss various hypothetical
scenarios was suggested.
- The meeting decided the TYC committee would possibly sponsor three workshops in Guelph.
The spectroscopy workshop led by Herb Retcofsky always fills and is well received and the
TYC committee will continue to sponsor it. Curt Hieggelke will possibly lead a workshop on
TIPERs (Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research) perhaps with a less silly name by
then. Paul DAlessandris tentatively plans to lead a workshop on SPIRAL Physics.
- The meeting agreed that we should act on Paul DAlessandriss earlier
suggestion that we have a TYC room at the Guelph meeting. It is hoped this room can be a
place for TYC people to find each other at the AAPT meeting. The focus sessions, the TYC
committee meeting, and a TYC social gathering will be held in the TYC room.
- Paul DAlessandris stressed the importance of those who had volunteered to organize
sessions getting the paperwork in before the fast approaching deadline.
5) Discussion of meetings in Winter 2001, Summer 2001, Winter 2002
- The Winter 2001 meeting will be January 6-11, 2001 in San Diego, CA. The deadline for
adding sessions is May 15, 2000. Several topics for sessions were discussed including
those topics suggested for Summer 2000 in Guelph which could not be fitted in such as
problems with distance and Internet learning, lab issues, teaching multiple disciplines,
and teaching interdisciplinary courses. Other topics suggested for the Winter 2001 meeting
in San Diego included under-prepared students and preparing K:8 teachers in science.
- The Summer 2001 meeting will be July 21-25, 2001 in Rochester, NY, and the Winter 2002
meeting will be January 19-23, 2002 in Philadelphia, PA.
6) Other business
- It was pointed out that the TYC committee web site was in need of a new home with Susie
Evers retiring. Bill Waggoner volunteered to take over the site.
- Curt Hieggelke encouraged nominating TYC people for Distinguished Service Citations and
other AAPT awards.
- Curt Hieggelke reminded us that Cliff Swartz is retiring as editor of The Physics
Teacher and a search is being conducted for a new editor.
- Curt Hieggelke announced that AAPT would no longer revise its introductory physics exam.
- Curt Hieggelke announced that his (and my) home institution, Joliet Junior College, will
be celebrating its centennial in 2001. One of the events will be the college hosting a
joint meeting of the Illinois Section and the Chicago Section of AAPT in the fall of 2001.
Jack Hehn, Evelyn Patterson, and Jim Stith have already agreed to come and speak. Curt
invited any interested TYC faculty to come.
7) Adjournment
- Bill Hogan motioned to adjourn at 10:30 PM and many, many people seconded.
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Annaheim, California, January 12, 1999
Submitted by Bill Waggoner
1. Paul D'Alessandris (chair elect) chaired the meeting and called the meeting to order
at 7:30 PM.
A. The agenda of the meeting consisted of an informal discussion of; (1) the Anaheim
meeting (2) the TYC national meeting in conjunction with AAPT in San Antonio scheduled for
the summer of 1999. (3) our AAPT summer meeting workshops and sessions, and finally (4)
the workshops/sessions sponsored by the committee for the Orlando AAPT winter meeting.
2. The meeting began with introductions.
A. Members present: Paul D' Alessandris Incoming members present: Bill Waggoner.
B. Others present included: Carolyn Haas, Marv Nelson, Tom O'Kuma, Richard Sommerfield,
Alex Dickinson, Ken Stepnitz, Denise Wetli, Hildelisa Hernadez, Jack Hein, Curtis
Hieggelke, Bob Boeke, Marilyn Neis, Theo Koupelis, Myra West, Bob Speers, Konyka Dunson,
Beverley Taylor, Bernard Olanaytemeian, and Bernard V. Khoury.
3. Discussion of this AAPT meeting:
A. Two TYC sessions were sponsored. It was noted that they were dual sessions, at the
same time. They were Trends and Developments in the Teaching of Waves in Introductory
Physics, and Physics in the Market Place (Alex commented that the later session
saw "the most people ever for that topic").
B. There were two sponsored workshops. It was noted that the one of the Calculator
based workshops was canceled for lack of enrollment
4. Discussion of the AAPT and TYC meetings in San Antonio:
A. TYC is planning 5 workshops for the AAPT meeting including, Calculator based Control
systems, Introductory College Physics in the 21 st century, Ranking Tasks, From the Big
Bang to the Bomb, and Fun Experiments/Demonstrations in Light and Color.
B. The chair described the tentative San Antonio sessions. These included Trends in
Life Sciences. Curt suggested a panel discussion on TYC21 and isolation.
C. Much discussion occurred concerning the details of the San Antonio meeting. A
general picture emerged where the meeting would begin on Sunday prior to the AAPT meeting,
Monday would consist of a full day program. Tuesday would be an overlapping day of TYC
activities and AAPT activities.
D. A discussion followed concerning registration. TYC people would have to pay 1 day
member rate for registration if attending the TYC conference only. TYC members would be
able to register at AAPT member rates, even if not a member.
E. Bernie mentioned that we needed to get the dates set. There was some confusion about
what the advertisement in the Announcer was going to have for starting and ending dates.
F. A discussion followed on the San Antonio program agenda. Paul expressed his desire
to involve the regional TYC21 representatives in the process of setting the agenda. He
described the Monday program agenda as being worked in the subcommittee chaired by Gordon
Aubrecht. A consensus was reached calling for the session agenda to be set before the
regional spring meetings so as to get the regions input and involvement in the sessions.
Curt Hieggelke expressed a need for sessions that were participatory in nature and would
"Force people to actively lay out your plans
.". Curt suggested we have a
session which focused on success stories, as well as suggesting we invite all the ATE
centers to come this meeting. A topic of conversation included having funded projects
exhibited on Monday night of the meeting. Curt also suggested targeting something for new
TYC faculty in a session as a means to encourage senior members to bring the junior
faculty to the meeting. Two other sessions to go along with success stories (a) out reach
to high schools, and (b) ILI funded projects were suggested.
5. Discussion of the AAPT program for the summer meeting San Antonio:
A. The chair solicited suggestions for the order/structure of workshops that would
encourage TYC people to stay for the AAPT meeting. Marv Nelson suggested a cracker barrel,
concerning various topics, such as -- gaining stature in the overall community, common
issues in two year colleges. A review of the invited paper sessions set for San Antonio
followed. Alex Dickison agreed to put together the session on ATE's (The Impact of TYC's;
Industrial Partnerships).
6. Discussion of the AAPT winter meeting in Orlando:
A. Several workshops for the Orlando meeting were discussed. Paul D'Alessandris'
"Spiral Physics", Tom O'Kuma's "Basic MBL Labs". The chair called for
volunteers. An invited/contributed paper session about distance learning was suggested by
Tom O'Kuma.
7. Other business. The chair solicited suggestions for plenary speakers, order of
cracker barrel, committee meeting order.
8. Adjournment.
A. The meeting was adjourned at 10:00 PM.
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