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Educational innovation and outreach in the Department of Physics and Astronomy

Educational innovation and outreach in the Department of Physics and Astronomy. Outreach: REU - Research experience for undergraduates LLE summer program for high school students PREP - Pre-college Experience in Physics for 9th and 10th grade women PARTICLE - HS classroom outreach

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Educational innovation and outreach in the Department of Physics and Astronomy

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  1. Educational innovation and outreach in the Department of Physics and Astronomy • Outreach: • REU - Research experience for undergraduates • LLE summer program for high school students • PREP - Pre-college Experience in Physics for 9th and 10th grade women • PARTICLE - HS classroom outreach • Innovation: • Inquiry • Workshops • Preflights • Teaching/training: • TI program • Certificate in college teaching • TI/TA training Frank Wolfs FrankWolfs

  2. Overview of PARTICLEKevin McFarland • Methods: • Summer Teacher Institute • Particle Physics, Cosmic Rays, Other Modern Physics Topics, Pedagogy • Construct Classroom Equipment • Classroom Outreach • Visits by Physicists to Classrooms • Research Support • “PARTICLE day” student conference

  3. Focal Point: CosmicRay Telescope • Primary “hook” is the cosmic ray telescope for the classroom • Easy to build • About $400/unit

  4. Classroom visits Student projects/research and presentations Particle day

  5. PREP Pre-College Experience in Physics for Women 2 week summer program for 20-30 9th and 10th grade women Content-based grant funding Guest speakers, inquiry labs and discussions Planned and run by 2 women undergraduate science majors

  6. Workshops in physics Cline, Manly, McFarland, Wu, Tipton (P113, P114, P121, P122) Very successful by multiple measures • Assessment • Continued module development, cross-disciplinary • Toy chest • Use of online applets and/or research within module

  7. Preflights Just-in-time-teaching McFarland, used in P122 • Give reading assignment at end of previous class • Ask students to do online quiz about the assignment • Look at results of quiz before lecture and modify lecture and incorporate statistics on quiz results U Illinois server, moving to webwork this summer Will use in P122 and P113 this fall

  8. Teaching and Training Intense 2-day TA/TI training at end of August (physics & other depts) - talks, video taping Teaching Intern program - 20 undergraduate TI’s, work in labs (along with graduate student) and workshops Weekly teaching seminar during fall In addition workshop leaders must attend weekly leader meeting Teaching certificate - talented and interested TA’s teach major summer courses - good for students, good for dept.

  9. Plans/vision/fantasy Will continue to play with workshops, preflights, physics on the road, projects, etc. PARTICLE program - maybe an avenue through which others might get involved with local HS outreach Assessment: Workshops, preflights, other things High school physics workshops? Spread the word to other research physics departments

  10. Plans/vision/fantasy Open to deeper physics/Warner ties. Encourage use of physics courses as physics/Warner laboratory for interested Warner folk. Internally exploring possibility of physics Ph.D. with concentration in physics education. Have a unique? core of interested folk cutting across departments, LAS, Warner. WTF is an example. Perhaps this gives us an opportunity to study/assess innovation in science/engineering/math education in a way most others cannot.

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