8-12 PHYSICS/PHYSICAL SCIENCE ACADEMY This Academy will follow the Physics Teaching Resource Agents (PTRA) program developed by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT). The PTRA program is designed to improve physics teaching and learning at the pre-college level.  Participants will experience a series of closely linked pedagogically paced activities and experiences designed to help the participants learn to use techniques that are student centered and based on sound Physics Education Research methodologies.  The participants will develop content knowledge through experimentation and establishing important models for the physical world based on the results of that experimentation.  Participants will be challenged to take the materials and adapt them for their own setting and the learning readiness of their own students.  The physics content emphasis on this week's program will be kinematics and Newton's Laws of Motion.

This academy is limited to 35 participants

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David Slykhuis

Academy Chair

Dr. David A. Slykhuis will be chairing the Physics/Physical Science Academy.  Dr. Slykhuis has been at James Madison University since the fall of 2004.  His primary responsibilities lie in the preparation of science teachers in the middle and secondary education program.  His research interest involves the use of technology in K-16 science classrooms to increase student achievement.  Dr. Slykhuis received his PhD in Science Education from North Carolina State University in May of 2004.  He has five years of high school classroom experience, teaching primarily chemistry and physics.

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  JUNE 23-27, 2008