The American Physical Society (APS) and the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) recently won a $750k award from the National Science Foundation to provide scholarships to around 30 new physics teachers over the next 5 years. These PhysTEC Noyce Scholars will receive up to $15,000 of scholarship support per year, in exchange for a commitment to teach in a “high-needs” school after graduation.
APS Assistant Director of Education Monica Plisch will lead the project, which includes the PhysTEC sites Ball State University, Cornell University, Seattle Pacific University, the University of Arkansas, the University of North Carolina, and Western Michigan University. Funding comes from the NSF’s Robert Noyce Teacher Scholarship program, which is designed to increase the number of qualified science and math teachers in high-needs school districts. Several PhysTEC institutions, including Arkansas, Seattle Pacific, the University of Arizona, and the University of Colorado at Boulder, already offer Noyce scholarships to their teachers, and the project will be able to take advantage of the expertise these sites have gained.
Read about our recent activities in the very first PhysTEC Newsletter
Teacher Preparation Quiz Answers
Thanks to the new UNC-BEST program, physics and biology majors at the University of North Carolina can now earn teaching certification and complete their undergraduate science degrees all in four years. View press release.
