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The Build-it Leave-it Teach-it Program: A Model for Recruiting and Retaining Pre-Service Physics Teachers

  • Year 2017
  • NSF Noyce Award # 1439762
  • First Name Kurt
  • Last Name Fletcher
  • Discipline Physics
  • Co-PI(s)

    James McLean, SUNY Geneseo, mclean@geneseo.edu
    Dennis Showers, SUNY Geneseo, showers@geneseo.edu
    Kathryn Rommel-Esham, SUNY Geneseo, rommel@geneseo.edu

  • Presenters

    James McLean, SUNY Geneseo, mclean@geneseo.edu

Need

Physics Departments have a responsibility to recruit and to retain preservice high school physics teachers.

Goals

Early teaching experiences can strengthen recruitment and retention by giving undergraduate physics majors a preview of the teaching profession, and by providing a supportive community for preservice physics teachers.

Approach

Through our Noyce Teacher Scholarship project, we have developed a program in which preservice physics teachers engage in the design and presentation of lecture demonstrations, a model that can easily be adopted at other institutions. By incorporating undergraduate research on student learning, we highlight that teaching science is an intellectually challenging endeavor.

Outcomes

Assessment data indicate that participation in the program increases interest in teaching.

Broader Impacts

Participants report that the community formed among the preservice physics teachers is an important component of the program.

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https://www.geneseo.edu/noyce https://www.geneseo.edu/phystec

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This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under Grant Numbers DUE-2041597 and DUE-1548986. Any opinions, findings, interpretations, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this material are those of its authors and do not represent the views of the AAAS Board of Directors, the Council of AAAS, AAAS’ membership or the National Science Foundation.

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