Events & Workshops

June 26-29, 2023

Join us in beautiful Washington, D.C., for the four-day FTI: Physics and Astronomy Faculty Teaching Institute!

The FTI is our flagship workshop program and is dedicated to developing faculty members' teaching practice. Click here for more reasons to attend the next FTI.

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The registration fee is $400. Travel and caregiver grants are available. Please email rhilborn@aapt.org for details. 

Please complete the registration as soon as possible. Registration closes on April 7, 2023.

 

June 2023 Tentative Agenda

Day 1 - June 26

Time Activities
08:00 Working breakfast
09:00 Welcome and introduction
10:00 Career session #1: Imagining your role
11:00 Stretch break
11:15 Stories (from teachers/students)
11:30 Equity, diversity and inclusion (EDI) 1: Identity and positionality
12:30 Working lunch & Welcome from society CEOs
13:30 EDI 1 (continued): Case studies
14:00 Foundations of Teaching I
14:30 Experiencing the active class
15:15 Coffee break
16:00 Foundations of Teaching II
17:00 Discussions in pod groups
17:30 Your Most Important Questions and action planning
18:00 Session ends
18:30 Working dinner at hotel: Continue discussing questions over dinner
19:30 Social at hotel

 

Day 2 - June 27

Time Activities
08:00 Working breakfast
09:00 Introduction/ stories
09:15 PhysPort
09:45 How Can I Help Students Learn: Information delivery, individual work, whole class
11:00 Stretch break
11:15 Information delivery, individual work, whole class, continued
11:30 Think pair share (How Can I Help Students Learn: Pairs and group work 1)
12:15 Working lunch
13:15 Quantitative problem solving (How Can I Help Students Learn: Pairs and group work 2)
14:00 Visualizations and demonstrations (How Can I Help Students Learn: Pairs and group work 3)
14:30 Formative assessment: Assessment as a learning tool
15:15 Coffee break
16:00 Reflecting on your teaching
16:15 Discussions in pod groups
16:45 Your Most Important Questions and action planning
17:15 "Midterm" feedback: Stop start continue
17:30 Session ends
18:30 Dinner on your own

 

Day 3 - June 28

Time Activities
08:00 Working Breakfast
09:00 Introduction & stories
09:15 How Can I Help Students Learn
10:45 First day & student engagement
11:00 Stretch break
11:15 First day & student engagement, continued
11:30 Equity diversity and inclusion #2: Teaching inclusively
12:30 Lunch
13:30 Sticky questions about pairs and group work: Facilitation and other issues
14:30 Summative assessment: Using grading and exams to evaluate students fairly
15:30 Longer coffee break
16:15 Labs and other investigations (How can I help students learn: Pairs and group work 7)
16:45 Discussions in pods
17:15 Your Most Important Questions and bigger action planning session
18:00 Session ends
18:30 Dinner on your own
19:30 (optional) Tenure chat

 

Day 4 - June 29

Time Activities
08:00 Working Breakfast & Discussion with NSF program officers (optional)
09:00 Introduction
09:15 Career #2: Doing your role well
10:15 Bringing it together: So now what? Course planning strategies
10:45 Individual action planning work time
11:15 Collective action planning work
12:15 Closing session
12:30 Adjourn

You can also click here to view the daily workshop schedule.

 

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