Physics Teacher Education Coalition
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| Nancy Bresnahan with students. |
| Wendy Tschample |
PhysTEC is designed to enhance recruitment of college students to become high school physics teachers and to improve their training and early career mentoring.
Every year about 300 fully certified physics teachers graduate from the nation's colleges while approximately 500 physics teaching openings become available due to retirements and teachers leaving the profession.
Take advantage of this great opportunity by contacting PhysTEC to find out more about physics education. Our goal is to help more teachers get certified, hired and trained in hands-on learning environments. PhysTEC learning assistants will be helping to educate their fellow students, gain valuable and postitive classroom experience and participate in outreach programs for the University such as PACES: Parents and Children Experience Science and Physics Force.
The University of Minnesota and the School of Physics and Astronomy are offering paid Learning Assistantships. These positions will be an integral part of the undergraduate physics courses at the U and will give you a chance to experience teaching first hand.
A key component of this program is the Teacher-in-Residence (TIR), an experienced high school physics teacher who will work with the program for one to three years. In addition, the program will have a Teacher Advisory Group (TAG), made up of approximately five secondary physics or physical science teachers.
For more information on the PhysTEC program at Minnesota, mail, PhysTEC at physics.umn.edu. More information can also be found on the national site.