Travel Grant: Support of Participants to the International Conference on Physics Education; Tokyo, Japan; August 24-29,1986

该项目将支持20名物理教育工作者(6-8名大学物理学家和12-14名高中物理教师)参加将于1986年8月24-29日在日本东京举行的国际物理教育趋势会议。会议将主要讨论：(1)物理教育最新研究成果的课堂实施问题；(2)技术对物理教学的影响；(3)激发学生学习物理的动机问题。这些问题将在中学和本科生入门课程中加以考虑。这次会议在远东地区尚属首次，很大一部分与会者预计将是高中物理教师。该项目的目的是让美国物理教育工作者分享想法，并从国际同行那里获得关于物理教学的新见解。这些见解将传播给美国的其他物理教育工作者，特别是那些参与课程开发的人。与会者将被要求根据他们对国际会议的参与情况编写具体报告。将向每位与会者分配一个令人关切的主要议题，作为报告的主要主题。主题将分为两大类：(1)其他国家如何将现代物理融入课程？(2)其他国家如何设计教师支持和干预计划？与会者将于1987年1月在旧金山重新聚会，在美国物理学会和美国物理教师协会(AAPT)的年度联合会议上提交这些报告。具体报告将提交给物理教学资源机构和现代物理课程改进小组。在这些会议之后，选定的与会者将准备在1987年6月与相同的小组合作，以落实从报告中收集到的改进意见。现代物理课程改进小组已经在为高中物理教学和大学入门课程开发课程材料。国际会议与会者的投入很可能导致在具体报告的基础上发生重大变化。此外，这些报告将发表在AAPT播音员和物理教师上。

The project will support the attendance of 20 physics educators (6-8 college and university physicists and 12-14 high school physics teachers) at the International Conference on Trends in Physics Education, to be held in Tokyo, Japan, August 24-29, 1986. The conference will primarily be concerned with: (1) problems of classroom implementation of the results of recent research in physics education, (2) the impact of technology on physics teaching, and (3) the problem of motivating students to the study of physics. These problems will be considered at both the secondary school and the introductory undergraduate levels. The Conference is the first of its kind in the Far East, and a large fraction of the participants are expected to be physics teachers at the high school level. The intent of the project is for U.S. Physics educators to share ideas and gain new insights about physics teaching from International colleagues. These insights will be disseminated to other physics educators in the U.S., especially those involved with curriculum development. Participants will be required to develop specific reports based upon their involvement at the International Conference. A major topic of concern will be assigned to each participant as a primary theme for the report. Topics will be under two major categories: (1) How is modern physics integrated into the curriculum in other countries? (2) How have other countries designed teacher support and intervention programs? The participants will reassemble in Jaunary 1987, in San Francisco to present these reports at the annual joint meeting of the American Physical Society and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). Specific reports will be made to Physics Teaching Resource Agents, and to the Modern Physics Curriculum Improvement Group. Following these sessions, selected participants will be prepared for working with the same groups in June 1987, to implement ideas for improvements gleaned from the reports. The Modern Physics Curriculum Improvement Group is already developing curriculum materials for physics teaching in high schools and introductory college courses. The input from the International Conference participants is likely to lead to significant changes based upon specific reports. Also, the reports will be published in the AAPT Announcer and in The Physics Teacher.