American Association of Physics Teachers

National Meeting Program Schedule

2011 AAPT Summer Meeting
July 30-August 3, 2011
Omaha, Nebraska

Total Number of Records Found: 1

BH05:

Connecting Teacher Preparation to Professional Practice

Location:

SS Ballroom F

Date:

Monday, Aug.1

Time:

3:00 PM -3:10 PM

Author:

Eugenia Etkina, Rutgers University
732-932-7496, eugenia.etkina@gse.rutgers.edu

Co-Author(s):

None

Abstract:

In this talk I will describe how the Rutgers Physics Teacher Preparation program connects pre-service training to post-graduation professional development and practice. The key here is to use social networks and face-to-face meetings as two components of a professional learning community. I will show how one can maintain such a community with very little time investment and no additional funding. The learning community not only supports beginning teachers during their most difficult years of teaching but also allows pre-service teachers to have high quality student teaching experience. I will share the achievements of the community and the difficulties that arise. Rutgers has been producing large numbers of physics teachers for the past eight years. Over 90% of these teachers remain in the profession.

Footnotes:

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