The American Association of Physics Teachers, Northern California/Nevada Section
Given the context of school closures and conference cancellations, we have decided to cancel our upcoming meeting.
We are extending everyone’s membership status by six months. We will reach out to PASCO, hopefully they will be willing to host again in the near future.
Stay safe + health,
David Marasco – Program Chair
Save the date! We are returning to Foothill in November. Our keynote speaker will be SJSU’s Cassandra Paul. Registration is now closed, the walk-up pricing is $25. On Friday night we’ll meet for a social at one of the officers’ house in San Jose at 6. He’s cooking up a mountain of food, so bring $10 to drop in the honor jar. An RSVP link will be sent to folks who register for our meeting. At around 8 we’ll finish up dinner, and will go to Foothill’s observatory for some star-gazing.
July 15-17, 2019, Portland, Oregon (Monday-Wednesday)
Designed for those who teach introductory physics at universities, colleges and high schools. Graduate credit will be available through the University of Oregon.
Instructors: David Sokoloff, University of Oregon and Ronald Thornton, Tufts University
Participants will be introduced to research-validated, classroom-tested strategies for each component of the introductory course that have been demonstrated to improve learning. These include Interactive Lecture Demonstration (ILDs), RealTime Physics (RTP) labs, Collaborative Problem-Solving Tutorials, Workshop Physics (WP), Physics with Video Analysis (PVA), and related online video analysis exercises. The course will also include the use of video analysis to identify analytic functions describing real data. Among other more recent developments are:
Our next local AAPT meeting will be hosted by the University of the Pacific Physics Department on April 5th and 6th. Parking and directions can be found here. So, what will our conference look like? We’ll have vendor workshops in the late afternoon/early evening on Friday the 5th, followed by some no-host dining. Our main event will be on Saturday the 6th, and will feature invited talks from Natasha Holmes and Binod Nainabasti followed by workshops in the afternoon. Program
Physics Teacher SOS (PTSOS) is once again offering its excellent workshops in the SF Bay Area. This year’s start on Saturday, September 15th, at Los Gatos High School in Los Gatos. Get complete details and sign up here. PTSOS is a workshop and support program for new high and middle school physics teachers in Northern California. We offer 3 all-day Saturday workshops during the school year. In addition to learning about the details of the craft of physics teaching from experienced teachers, participants receive continental breakfast, lunch, and physics equipment for them to use in their classroom. The PTSOS program…
