New Faculty Workshops
The American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT), in conjunction with the American Astronomical Society (AAS) and the American Physical Society (APS), holds a workshop for new physics and astronomy faculty members each year at the American Center for Physics. Now in its 12th year, this annual conference helps new faculty understand how students learn physics and astronomy and suggests how this information can impact a new professor's teaching methods. The workshop is intended for faculty in the first few years of their initial tenure-track appointment at a four-year college or university and will be held this summer June 26-29, 2008 and this fall November 6-9, 2008.

New Faculty Workshop Reunion
American Center for Physics, June 25-27, 2007

This discussion format and small breakout groups of the Workshop permit the participants to exchange ideas with one another and with leading innovators in physics and astronomy education. The 2007 Program is available (pdf). You may also view the 2005 presentations from our Physical Sciences Resource Center. We invite you to nominate your recently hired faculty to attend the Workshop. By "recently hired" we mean faculty in the first few years of their initial tenure-track appointment. The ideal nominee would be one who has been teaching for a year or two and who is beginning to realize that good teaching may be a more difficult enterprise than he or she originally thought. We are confident that your new faculty will use what they learn for the improvement of instruction at your institution. By providing examples of well-tested paths to successful teaching, the Workshop will allow your nominee greater time to focus on research and scholarship, thereby offering benefits to the individual and to your department. This series of workshops has substantially contributed to the national effort to improve physics and astronomy instruction. It is not our goal to turn new faculty into specialists in pedagogy or educational methodology. Instead, we will acquaint them with a small number of teaching techniques that have been shown to be effective in a wide variety of institutions and course levels. We will also schedule follow-up sessions at regular meetings of the APS, AAPT and AAS.

Registration Information
Department chair should nominate their new faculty online by August 18, 2008, at https://www.aapt.org/events/secure/newfaculty_nomination.cfm The nominating department is responsible for all travel expenses to and from the American Center for Physics. This program is supported by the National Science Foundation, which pays all local expenses connected with the Workshop, including housing and meals for the participants. The only cost to participants is transportation to the American Center for Physics. Registration for fall 2008 workshop will begin May 1, 2008.

New Faculty Workshop Reunion
A reunion for 50 faculty members who attended the New Faculty Workshops between 1996 and 2005 was held at the American Center for Physics on June 25-27, 2007. The program is available (in pdf format) and the PowerPoint presentations of the plenary speakers are available from our Physical Sciences Resource Center. The reunion began with a poster session, reception, and dinner Monday evening at the hotel and the poster abstracts are available in pdf format. The entire cost of attendance including travel, housing and meals was supported by the grant from the National Science Foundation.