Events » November 2024 FTI

Faculty Teaching Institute, November 2024

November 7 - November 10, 2024
Washington, DC

Registration for the November 2024 FTI in Washington, DC, is now open!

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Deadline:  September 19, 2024

The FTI: Physics and Astronomy Faculty Teaching Institute is our flagship workshop program and is dedicated to developing faculty members' teaching practice. The next FTI will be held in beautiful Washington, DC from November 7-10, 2024.  Registration closes September 19, 2024.

Faculty at the FTI working on an activity

This 4-day immersive workshop will dig deep into the how and why of helping students learn physics and astronomy, so you can build the type of teaching practice that you want. In the workshop, we will cover things such as:

  • Managing your role as a new faculty member
  • Principles of effective teaching and learning
  • Equity, diversity, and inclusion in the classroom
  • How to help students learn through presentation, small group work, whole class discussion, reading, simulations, demonstrations, think-pair-share, and more.
  • How to assess students compassionately, to support their learning
  • Managing challenging teaching situations
  • Creating a teaching action plan

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Registration & Financial Support 

The cost of registration is $600. Hotel room costs and several meals will be paid directly by our National Science Foundation grant. Check out the Hotel&Travel tab for details about the expenses that are covered by the registration fee. 
Please complete the registration as soon as possible, but certainly before September 19, 2024.

Our National Science Foundation grant provides FTI registration and travel subsidies for FTI participants from departments with financial constraints. For more information and to apply for this support, please email PI Rachel Ivie at r ivie at aapt dot org. The email address has been obscured to make harvesting more difficult. Please remove spaces and replace "at" with @. Deadline to apply for support: September 13, 2024.

Workshop Schedule

The workshop will run between six and twelve hours per day, starting around 7am local time. See the Agenda tab for the full working schedule.