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Recruitment of High School Physics Teachers

Join LeRoy Castle, Jr. from La Porte High School in Indiana in recruiting high school physics teachers for QuarkNet at Notre Dame University. Collaborate to involve teachers in new physics concepts and garner enthusiasm for the CMS project. Learn about the outreach efforts and the positive results achieved. Discover the importance of engaging high school teachers to inspire students in high-energy physics.

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Recruitment of High School Physics Teachers

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  1. Recruitment of High School Physics Teachers QuarkNet at Notre Dame University LeRoy Castle, Jr. La Porte High School La Porte, Indiana lcastle@nd.edu

  2. Original Lead Teacher Group

  3. Getting Teachers Involved • Enlisting support for creation of Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) Outreach • Recruitment of High School Teachers • Involvement in New Physics • Garner enthusiasm for USA involvement in CMS • High School students get to see an inside glimpse of High Energy Physics

  4. Recruitment Start • Deciding on Range of Recruitment • Used approx. 30 km circle • Reasoning: Location of outermost Lead Teacher • Started by contact with all schools in radius in May 1999 for initial contact with local Physics teachers

  5. Recruitment Goals • Add approximately ten different school locations with their teachers to the QuarkNet program. • Have a diversity of individuals with different teaching programs and styles • Have a large support base of teachers to contact more students.

  6. Outreach Initial Contact • Meetings in April-May 1999 to contact area schools. • Sent letter to schools in Michiana area. • Included postage paid comment card.

  7. Good Feelings • Ready to contact teachers • Good feeling about local area recruitment • Great benefits by the University of Notre Dame • Benefits from QuarkNet

  8. Whoops! • May have been a little over-enthusiastic about the project. • Responses were not very forthcoming • Low % of responses

  9. Initial Responses • Original letter sent out in May • Bad timing near end of school year • Some letters misrouted • Response rate less than 25% of notecards • Varied responses of positive and negative feedback. • Most positive, one definitely not—Stay away!

  10. Reassessment of Personnel Search • Need to try again and recontact teachers. • Try to personally contact each by phone or face-to-face. • Summer is here so teachers are not.

  11. Re-contact • Resolved to personally talk to every possible teacher by end of summer. • Promote meeting in September • Offered Perks • Food, coffee, stuff

  12. Better Results 100% contact with 40 area schools 10 teachers commit to coming to open house/talk Notre Dame facility goals and future promoted

  13. September Meeting • 5 out of 7 commit to join • A few others start to show up at Monday meetings

  14. Good Results 5 individuals commit to working at ND with QuarkNet Good diversity of school locations Great people to work with

  15. Why do outreach? • High school teachers are the first line of interest in Physics for the future. • Introduces support for high school teachers. • Students see research earlier and promotes more interest in physics • Adds more diversity with peers and associates

  16. Current Status at ND • One QuarkNet Associate teacher offered position with accelerator group at ND • Two new teachers added to roster this past month through word of mouth. • Looking at increasing student role for CMS equipment creation at ND site

  17. QuarkNet@ND

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