Local and Regional Teacher Development Program: Retraining and Upgrading Precollege Physics and Physical Science Teachers

加州大学河滨分校正在赞助一项计划，以留住目前在大学专业之外任教的物理教师，以改善他们的课堂陈述。该计划将提供具体的教学辅助工具，并将复习物理教学所必需的数学知识。28名高中和初中物理和物理科学教师将参加为期四周的暑期工作坊。参与者将来自河滨和圣贝纳迪诺县学校。第一周和第二周的工作坊将涵盖一些基本的物理原理，以及解释这些原理的演示的构建。除了之前的活动外，第三周将复习物理教学所需的数学知识，并将计算机的使用纳入其中。第四周将专门讨论个别参与者的具体兴趣和问题。教师们将在暑假期间带着设计和制造的授课演示设备返回学校。研讨会将辅之以一系列客座讲座。在学年期间，将在2月和5月举办两个为期一天的工作坊，教师将在工作坊上分享他们将材料融入课堂的经验。

The University of California, Riverside, is sponsoring a program to retain current physics teachers who are teaching outside their college major, in order to improve their classroom presentation. The program will provide specific teaching aids, and will review the mathematics essential to the teaching of physics. Twenty-eight high school and junior high school teachers of physics and physical science will attend a four-week summer workshop. Participants will be drawn from the Riverside and San Bernardino County Schools. Weeks one and two of the workshops will cover a number of basic physics principles and the construction of demonstrations which explain these principles. In addition to previous activities, week three will review the mathematics necessary to the teaching of physics and will incorporate computer usage. Week four will be devoted to the specific interests and problems of the individual participants. Teachers will return to their schools with lecture-demonstration devices designed and built during the summer. The workshop will be supplemented by a series of guest lectures. During the academic year, there will be two one-day workshops in February and May, where teachers will share their experiences of incorporating the materials into their classes.