Recruiting and Educating Future Physics Teachers: Case Studies and Effective Practices
The Physics Teacher Education Coalition, the American Physical Society, and the American Association of Physics Teachers are proud to announce the release of a new peer-reviewed book: Recruiting and Educating Future Physics Teachers: Case Studies and Effective Practices, edited by Cody Sandifer and Eric Brewe.
Recruiting and Educating Future Physics Teachers provides a practical guide to innovative, state-of-the-art programs, and includes papers in the following areas:
- Preparing Future Physics Teachers: Overview and Past History
- Case Studies of Successful Physics Teacher Education Programs
- Recruiting and Retaining Future Physics Teachers
- Structuring Effective Early Teaching Experiences
- Preparation in the Knowledge and Practices of Physics and Physics Teaching
- Mentoring, Collaboration, and Community Building
There is a strong emphasis throughout the book on implementation advice, ongoing challenges, and lessons learned. The book's intended audience is physics department chairs and physics faculty, as well as education faculty who are engaged in physics teacher preparation.
The original vision statement and chapter proposal solicitation can be found here.
How to cite this book:
C. Sandifer and E. Brewe, eds., Recruiting and Educating Future Physics Teachers: Case Studies and Effective Practices (American Physical Society, College Park, MD, 2015).
Sample book chapter:
S. Vokos and T. Hodapp, Characteristics of thriving physics teacher education programs, in Recruiting and Educating Future Physics Teachers: Case Studies and Effective Practices, edited by C. Sandifer and E. Brewe (American Physical Society, College Park, MD, 2015), pp. 3-19.
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