Faculty Teaching Institute, June 2025

June 25 - June 28, 2025
College Park, MD

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Registration for the June 2025 FTI in College Park, MD, is now open and closes on May 16, 2025.

The FTI: Physics and Astronomy Faculty Teaching Institute is our flagship workshop program and is dedicated to developing faculty members' teaching practice. The June 2025 FTI will be held in beautiful College Park, MD, from June 25-28, 2025. Sessions will be hosted at the American Center for Physics-College Park office. 

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, to help faculty build the type of teaching practice they want. In the workshop, we will cover things such as:

  • Managing your role as a new faculty member
  • Principles of effective teaching and learning
  • 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 $700. 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 were covered by the registration fee. 

Our National Science Foundation grant provides FTI travel subsidies for FTI participants from departments with financial constraints. For more information and to apply for this support, we ask faculty to  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 @. The deadline to apply for support is May 9, 2025.

Workshop Schedule

  • Wednesday, June 25: 7:30am-7:00pm
  • Thursday, June 26: 7:30am-6:30pm; community time from 8:00-9:00pm
  • Friday, June 27: 7:30am-6:30pm; tenure & promotion discussion from 8:00-9:00pm
  • Saturday, June 28: 7:30am-12:30pm

The workshop schedule is as follows: We will have a working breakfast at 7:30am every day with the first session beginning at 8:30am. On Thursday and Friday, there will be an additional optional session from 8:00-9:00pm after dinner. See the Agenda tab to view the full working schedule.

Post-Workshop Engagement

During the workshop, we will help you create Action Teams who will work and meet together on their own terms after the workshop. These groups will help you build connections and offer continued opportunities for help and feedback from workshop facilitators. See the Stay Involved page to read more about additional opportunities to remain engaged with a vibrant community of faculty interested in teaching and learning after the workshop.