Physics Teaching Resource Agent (PTRA)-PLUS

PTRA-PLUS项目是美国物理教师协会（AAPT）的一个项目，在三个夏天为125名优秀的美国高中教师提供最新的教学指导，这些教师之前接受过物理教学资源代理（ptra）的培训。在这三年里，每年将增加25名新的参与者，到1994年使该方案加人数达到200人。除了加强对物理内容的重视外，还将特别注意提高女生在物理课上的入学率和成绩，以及随后对该专业的兴趣。这项新努力的第二个显著特征是PTRA计划的自给自足的进步运动；随着美国国家科学基金资助的逐步结束，AAPT计划继续培训教师工作坊的领导者，并为工作坊外展项目提供行政/后勤支持。项目参与者将被要求每年在其所在地区或州举办至少五次全天的教师研讨会，在国家科学基金会资助的三年期间，在全国范围内举办约2500次讲习班，涉及多达5万名物理和物理科学教师。一个综合数据库主要由项目参与者的电子网络提供，并由AAPT项目主任维护，将有助于安排、报告和监测外联讲习班，并评估夏季培训课程的有效性。PTRA-PLUS项目的其他显著特点包括鼓励参与的高中教师和学院/大学教师以及当地少数民族学生的教师建立伙伴关系。为了进一步延长教学和互动的有效时间，夏季培训课程通常安排在AAPT定期夏季会议的前一周，在会议的营地场地进行。第一次这样的会议定于1992年8月在奥罗诺的缅因大学举行。费用分摊相当于国家科学基金会奖金的10%。

PROJECT PTRA-PLUS is a program of the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) to provide updated instruction over three summers for 125 outstanding U.S. high school teachers previously trained to conduct teacher workshops as Physics Teaching Resources Agents (PTRAs). Twenty-five new participants will be added to the group in each of the three years to bring the PTRA-PLUS complement to 200 by 1994. In addition to an enhanced emphasis on physics content, particular attention will be devoted to increasing the enrollment and success of girls in physics classes and subsequent interest in the profession. A second distinguishing characteristic of this new effort is the progressive movement to self-sufficiency of the PTRA program; AAPT plans to continue both the training of teacher workshops leaders and the administrative/logistical support of the workshop-outreach programs as the NSF funding is phased out. Program participants will be required to conduct a minimum of five full-day teacher workshops per year in their home regions or states, resulting in some 2500 workshops reaching as many as 50,000 physics and physical science teachers nationally over the three-year period of the National Science Foundation grant. A comprehensive database fed primarily by an electronic network of program participants and maintained by the Project Directors for AAPT will assist in the scheduling, reporting, and monitoring of the outreach workshops as well as evaluating the effectiveness of summer training sessions. Other distinct features of PROJECT PTRA-PLUS include the encouragement of partnerships between the participating high school teachers and college/university faculty and with teachers of minority students in their locale. To further extend the effective duration of instruction and interaction, summer training sessions are typically scheduled for the week preceding the regular AAPT Summer Meeting, on the camps site of the meeting. The first such session is scheduled for August of 1992 at the University of Maine in Orono. Cost sharing equals 10% of the NSF award.