Community College Physics Faculty Development Project

9353998 Hieggelke这个为期两年的国家计划，在一个成功的试点项目的基础上，将提供八个讲习班（每年四个）设计经验丰富的社区大学物理教师在几个地理上分散的社区大学校园。 其中一组讲习班向参加者介绍：（1）使用微机实验室;（2）建立物理模拟;或（3）开展概念练习和概述案例研究。 另一个讲习班为以前的讲习班参加者提供了最新情况，并使他们有机会获得以微型计算机为基础的实验室技术方面的更先进的经验。 每个为期三天的研讨会由两名社区大学物理教授和两名在这些领域发挥重要作用的大学/学院物理教授领导。 这些讲习班使参加者熟悉认知物理学研究的最新发展和成果的当代用途，并向参加者提供基于这些研究成果的广泛材料。 由于这些密集的讲习班，参与者能够评估这些发展，他们能够回到自己的校园，开始实施讲习班的调查结果。 因此，这些讲习班有助于社区学院迅速吸收这些知识和技术。 讲习班的影响正在通过建立一个采用电信公告板系统和通讯的网络系统得到加强。 这个项目的最终目标是帮助社区大学的学生发展古典和当代物理学的更强的理解。 更新社区学院的物理课程的任务是困难的，但对国家和科学至关重要，因为大量的学生，特别是妇女和少数民族，参加社区学院。 ***

9353998 Hieggelke This two-year national program, based on a successful pilot project, will provide eight workshops (four each year) designed for experienced community college physics teachers at several geographically-dispersed community college campuses. One set of workshops acquaints participants with (1) the use of microcomputer-based laboratories; (2) the construction of physics simulations; or (3) the development of conceptual exercises and overview case studies. Another workshop provides an update and an opportunity for more advanced experiences with microcomputer-based lab technology for previous workshop participants. Each three-day workshop is being led by two community college physics professors and two university/college physics professor who play a major role in these areas. These workshops acquaint participants with the contemporary use of the recent developments and findings of cognitive physics research and participants are provided with extensive materials based on these findings. As a result of these intensive workshops, participants are able to evaluate these developments and they are able to return to their campus to start implementing the workshop findings. Thus, these workshops facilitate the rapid incorporation of this knowledge and technology at community colleges. The impact of the workshop is being reinforced by the establishment of a networking system employing a telecommunications bulletin board system and a newsletter. The ultimate goal of this project is to help community college students develop a stronger understanding of classical and contemporary physics. The task of updating physics programs at community colleges is difficult but essential for the nation and for science because of the large number of students, particularly women and minorities, attending community colleges. ***