Teaching Physics  (PHYS 6300)

SYLLABUS: PHYS 6300

 

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.

 

OUTLINE OF WEEKLY MEETINGS

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).

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