MSP/AAPT/PTRA Summer Institutes

for

Teachers of Physics and Physical Science

Comments from teachers who have completed previous sessions of MSP/AAPT/PTRA Summer Institutes:

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Summer 2008 participant: “I am teaching Physics this semester and have already used 3 of the labs that we did last summer. It makes me smile when I see the kids having the same problems that I did in lab and then seeing the light bulb go off when they understand the concept.”

Summer 2009 participant: “I have used several of your activities in Physics this year. My kids LOVE the ticker timers…..they beg to use them! Hope to see you next summer.”

Summer 2009 participant: “I definitely will go back to my county and ‘demonstrate’ the knowledge that I have obtained here in the classroom, in my classroom, in faculty gatherings and at the county office. I truly feel that if more of our middle school and high school teachers were present at this workshop we would see a lot of growth in our school test scores.”

Summer 2008 participant: “I have found I am able to fly through the book work and problems after completing the labs and activities we covered in the institute. The students love doing the labs and activities and I know that doing the labs before the actual teaching from the textbook is the best way to go. I probably would never have changed my way of teaching if I had not taken the institute.”

Summer 2008 participant: “I am so grateful to have been allowed to participate in the summer institute. I know that it has made me a better and more determined teacher.”

Summer 2008 participant: “I found these activities very helpful this summer, in part because I am a lateral entry teacher with a degree in biology and needed ideas and strategies for teaching physical science since this subject is not my forte’.”