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The College Board is a non-profit organization that connects students to college readiness programs, like the SAT® and Advanced Placement® Program, and AP® Physics instructors to a community of resources and other AP® teachers. Signing up for an account with the College Board comes with a number of benefits for Physics instructors.
Getting to know the Expert TA Team - Each post in our Expert TA Spotlight series will highlight the personal and professional accomplishments of a member of the Expert TA community. First up is Director of Content, Dr. Chris Duston.
Congratulations to the University of Central Oklahoma on being recognized as one of the top 10 schools in the nation for their dedication to student engagement.
Finding new course materials can be quite an undertaking. There are multiple considerations that instructors must take into account, from the quality of the product to the style of the textbook, and what supplementary resources or materials are available. As a content area expert, you may already have a good idea about what material will best help your class meet rigorous academic standards. And while we will tackle this topic at length with our instructor resource posts, for this particular article we wanted to dig into two specific areas that you could consider when making your next curricular change.
Dr. Cindy Schwarz will receive the American Association of Physics Teacher’s 2017 David Halliday and Robert Resnick Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Physics Teaching. Expert TA would like to congratulate Dr. Schwarz on this accomplishment, which honors her extraordinary contributions to the Physics education community spanning nearly three decades.
Most people have a love/hate relationship with smartphones: They provide resources and information expeditiously in just a few clicks, but can also divert attention from timely tasks and goals, like paying attention in class. The reality is, most students have smartphones, and they’re using them in class. A survey by the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, discussed in this Harvard University article, found that students at six universities use cell phones an average of eleven times per day in class. The “no phones in class” rules of the past don’t account for the fact that as technology changes, students are changing, and classrooms must change with them.
