More and more high school students are getting interested in physics, but schools are in a tough spot: It’s hard to find physics teachers, so they often tap teachers with little-to-no training in the ...

Workshops around the world train science teachers to incorporate particle physics into their classrooms. Picture this: A stationary object such as a vase suddenly explodes, sending fragments flying.

In The Physics Teacher, researchers explore the goal of culturally relevant pedagogy, which is to center students' cultural resources as a bridge to learning. It relies on a framework of academic ...

With a growing number of students showing interest in the subject, physics is having a moment—and yet many public high schools still don’t even offer the course, often because they lack teachers to ...

Computing is central to the enterprise of physics but few undergraduate physics courses include it in their curricula. Here we discuss why and how to integrate computing into physics education.

COLLEGE PARK, MD, June 24, 2019 -- The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) PhysTEC Teacher of the Year award is designed to highlight the impact of recent graduates from physics teacher ...

Through CU Boulder’s Physics through Evidence, Empowerment through Reasoning (PEER) Physics project, Professor Valerie Otero and her team are working with teachers to provide resources to support ...

Nicholas Blakeney will become the first UNG student to earn a Bachelor of Science in secondary education with a physics concentration in May 2022. He is working an internship at Johnson High School in ...

Bowdoin Physics has a grant from PhysTEC, the Physics Teacher Education Coalition, to support the development of highly qualified, committed and passionate high school physics teachers. The United ...