If you teach undergraduates, consider the NSF-sponsored Chautauqua course from David Sokoloff and his colleagues. It’s called “Using Research-Based Curricula and Tools to Promote Active Learning in Introductory Courses.” Whew. Learn more at http://uoregon.edu/~sokoloff/chaut1.htm.
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You can learn cool summer stuff and earn money while you’re doing it. In the IISME (Industry Initiatives for Science and Mathematics Education) Summer Fellowship Program, you work in a technically-oriented workplace or research lab, contribute to what goes on there, and translate your experience into improved instruction. Summer 2007, you could earn up to $8200! Check out http://www.iisme.org/AboutSummerFellowships.cfm. You can read sample postings from previous summers at http://www.iisme.org/samplejobs.cfm. Applicants must currently teach K–16 in Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara or Santa Cruz County. The Edward Teller Education Center (ETEC) of the UC Davis…
Our Spring 2008 Meeting took place April 18–19 at Heritage High School in Brentwood. Check out the program! The SNAAPT petition (you can download it here) was voted upon by the 50 or so attendees and passed unanimously. We wish them luck! Dean Baird, documentor and presenter extraordinaire, has assembled some cool stuff here. In includes links to: Skepticism in the Classroom (a page of mini-lessons in critical thinking) The Amazing Meeting (hosted by the James Randi Educational Foundation) And photos, of course!
The AAPT Online Career Center is now associated with the AIP, APS, and AVS Career Centers. You can submit a resumé free of charge on our site and your resumé is automatically entered into a searchable database to which employers have easy online access. Visit the AAPT Online Career Center at http://careers.aapt.org/search/. Here is a flyer (400K, pdf) that describes the Career Center. You could give to the administrator at your school who is responsible for hiring new faculty.
Go Engineering! is the American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)’s free, bi-weekly electronic newsletter that goes out to thousands of K–12 science and math educators across the country. Go Engineering! reaches into America’s classrooms to promote the importance of engineering and technology education and explores the many ways engineering and technology can help teachers meet the challenge of making mathematics and science come alive for students. Subscribe for free at http://www.engineeringk12.org.