This course is combined with ASTR 6300 and will be cotaught with an Astronomy faculty member.
Textbook: No required text. Readings from several books (in 3 day reserve in the library) will be required.
1.
Teaching Intro Physics. A source Book, C. E. Swartz & T Miner
QC 30.s87 1997.
2.
Teaching intro Physics, A. B. Arons, QC 30.A78 1997.
3.
Conference on the Introductory Physics Course, J. Wilson, QC
30.c639 1993.
4.
Real time Physics active learning laboratory (vol 1 & 2) QC
30.s65 1999 V1,& V2.
1. Introductory
meeting: Introductions/Goals/Requirements
2. Specific ideas
on teaching labs. *Discussion of first weeks of lab teaching
experience students have had.
3. General
discussion of teaching principles. (PJW and AGUP)
4.--6.
Discussions involving reading assignments on pedagogy.
7.
Lecture/discussion led by a Center for Teaching and Learning
member.
8.--12. Students
to prepare and present introductory lab lectures: These should be
different for each student, but based on a lab they have taught
already. Two students to present their lectures (¸15 minutes)
each hour. Critiques by other students and instructors to be
given after each presentation. Students are urged to give a
practice session on videotape before their actual class
presentation. After the class presentation, students should give
a copy of a video presentation to the instructor before the end
of the semester.
13. Discussion of
Web resources.
14. Reading and
discussion of additional chapters on teaching or Web resources
and/or attend workshop by CTL during the term.
GRADING
Your attendance and participation in the class will count for 15%
of your grade. The laboratory presentation will provide 30% of
your grade, a writing assignment 25%, and a video presentation,
(taped after you have gone through the lab presentation to the
class) will yield another 20%. The final 10% will be determined
by your attendance at the Department Colloquia/Seminars, which
will typically be on Tuesdays from 2:30--3:45. Note that all
students are expected to attend every departmental colloquium
throughout the time they are at Georgia State. (A student
teaching a lab during that period or out of town at a meeting or
observatory or other laboratory will be excused from this
requirement; however, the instructor should be informed in
advance of such absences.) Students are expected to abide by the
Policy on Academic Honesty (see the Graduate Bulletin).