Active Physics Teacher Community

在美国学习物理的学生人数正在增加，因为国家的要求和物理学第一和物理学为所有美国人运动的成功鼓励学校在九年级教授物理。 采用这些举措的学校必须从教学成绩优异的11年级和12年级学生的模式转变为适用于所有9年级学生的模式。 人口结构的变化和多样性的增加对物理教师提出了挑战。 为了应对这一挑战，传统的专业发展模式得到了在线专业发展平台的增强-活跃的物理教师社区-为教师提供及时的支持，因为他们正在制定活跃的物理课程的目标单元。 通过向教师提供与他们在课堂上讲授的课程有关的正式指导，帮助他们备课。 此外，一个主持人论坛使教师能够与使用相同课程和相同课程的其他教师分享课堂经验、成功经验和问题，并将他们的经验与使用这些课程的其他教师进行比较。 因此，教师在学习内容以及以使其他人能够理解的方式表述和阐述主题方面都得到了支持。 这项研究将与教师在大城市中心使用四个单位的积极物理。 还测试了一个单元的活性化学，以确定专业发展模式的普遍性。 此外，编写的材料和吸取的经验教训存档在物理教师资源中心，一个基于网络的互动知识库，由出版商主办。

The number of students taking physics in the US is increasing because state requirements and the success of the Physics First and Physics for All Americans movements encourages schools to teach physics in the ninth grade. Schools that adopt these initiatives must move from a model of teaching academically high performing 11th and 12th grade students to a model that works for all 9th grade students. The demographic changes and the increased diversity present challenges to physics teachers. To address this challenge, the traditional professional development model is augmented by an online professional development platform - the Active Physics Teacher Community - that provides just-in-time support for teachers as they are enacting targeted units of the Active Physics curriculum. Teachers are helped in preparing lessons by providing them with formal instruction related to the lessons they are teaching in the classroom. In addition, a moderated forum allows teachers to share classroom experiences, successes and questions with other teachers using the same lessons and the same curriculum and to compare their experiences with other teachers who have used the lessons. Thus teachers are supported both in learning the content and also in representing and formulating the subject in a way to make it comprehensible to others. The study will be done with teachers in large urban centers using four units of Active Physics. One unit of Active Chemistry is also tested to determine the generalizability of the professional development model. In addition, the materials developed and lessons learned are archived in the Active Physics Teachers' Resource Center, a web-based interactive repository to be hosted by the publisher.