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The Build-it Leave-it Teach-it Program – Sharing Physics Demos with High School Classrooms

  • Year 2019
  • NSF Noyce Award # 1439726
  • First Name Kurtis
  • Last Name Fletcher
  • Discipline Physics
  • Co-PI(s)

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

  • Presenters

    Kurt Fletcher, SUNY Geneseo, fletcher@geneseo.edu

Need

The BLT program provides an opportunity to recruit physics majors into the teaching profession through early teaching experiences and by demonstrating the intellectual challenges that teaching presents.

Goals

Can the BLT program have a positive impact on the recruitment and retention of future physics teachers?

Approach

At weekly meetings on campus, participants design, revise, and build an apparatus to demonstrate a physical principle. They discuss learning outcomes, possible instructional strategies, and practice their presentations before visiting physics classrooms in neighboring school districts to present the demonstration and then donate the equipment to the local classroom.

Outcomes

This project builds and sustains a community of physics educators, assisting with recruitment and retention of future physics teachers. The undergraduates learn that high school science teaching provides interesting intellectual challenges.

Broader Impacts

Programs like this could be implemented for other subject areas and at other locations.

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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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