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24 July 2017
Introductions Around 40 in attendance
Reports on this meeting Status workshops and sessions at current Cincinnati meeting. (Various)
Workshops:
Introduction to ISLE
Computational Modeling with Vpython/Glowscript
Physics Invention Tasks
Activities in Modern Physics?
Sessions:
Impact of/Reflections on TYC Physics – happened today at 1:30pm
Going Public – How to Get Published Tuesday 8:30am in Breakout 5
Highlights from the New TYC Faculty Experience Tuesday 1:30pm in Marriott Ballroom 1
Current Space/Astronomy/Physics News Used in the Classroom Wednesday Breakout 5
Adjunct Faculty – trying again in San Diego
TYC Breakfast 7am Tomorrow CC Ballroom E!
Old Business
Status of TYC day in San Diego (Mel Sabella)
Status of reduced conference price for adjunct faculty (Mel Sabella)
Status of workshops/sessions for San Diego
Diversity – co sponsored with Diversity
Adjunct Issues - Dennis Gilbert – invited contributed co-sponsored with professional concerns
Aftermath of the eclipse – Todd Leif - Invited/contributed
Climate Change – Tom Carter - Invited contributed
Physics of Hobbies – Paul Williams – Contributed
A Classroom Activity that engages your students – Dwain Desbien
Glowscript in Introductory Physics – Dwain Desbien and Tom O’Kuma
ROV – Greg Mulder
New Business
Need new Vice Chair (Tony is on nominating committee)
New Sessions for Washington D.C. Meeting (we get five) 28.July – 1.August 1.
Scientific Activism – Renee Lathrop lathrop@sunydutchess.edu 2.
TYC <-> 4YC Articulations (and the problems they create and solve)
Challenges and Solutions Thereof in Physics Instruction at the TYC (topical discussion?) Joe Heafner heafnerj@gmail.com
TYCs then and now -- Beverly “Trina” Cannon btcannon@dcccd.edu and cannonb75@gmail.com (214-868-5445)
Promoting Student Clubs and Cohorts – Libby Elizabeth.schoene@seattlecolleges.edu
Other possible suggestions:
Online Physics Courses
You want me to teach what?
TYCs and Social Mobility
Success of TYC transfers
Building a community of local physics teachers
/Global Warming / Global Climate Change / The Idea of Global Warming / Global C. C. is
Real Adjunct Issues Continued
New Workshops for Washington D.C. Meeting (we get two)
ISLE Eugenia Etkina eugenia.etkina@gse.rutgers.edu, co-sponsor with RIPE
Teaching better by sharing….
Using EdX in a blended way Dave Pritchard (dpritch@mit.edu) iii.
ROV and/or Arduinos
Other Suggestions.
Raspberry Pi’s Co-Sponsor a cognition/PER/… group
Co-Sponsor a diversity workshop
Next generation learners combined with instructor… synergy
David Marasco (Foothill College) is willing to help out with CA recruitment MarascoDavid@foothill.edu
Other Business as needed
Adjourn
20 February 2017
Attendance: Dennis Gilbert, Tom O’Kuma, Todd Leif, Kendra Sibbernsen, Arlisa Richardson, Karie Meyers, Nathan Quardever, Dwain Desbien, Paul Williams, Greg Mulder, Anitza San Miquel, Shahida Dar, Tom English, Sherry Savrda, Trina Cannon, Toby Dittrich, Richard Gelderman, Bob Brazzle, Bruce Mason, Pat Keefe, Joe Heafner
The current committee chair, Joe Heafner introduced the incoming chair, Tom Carter and the incoming vice-chair, Greg Mulder. Everyone else introduced themselves.
We then asked for feedback from the current meeting. On the positive side, Georgia Tech had really great lab spaces for the workshops and the people at the hotel were very friendly. On the negative side, there seemed to be a lot of problems with presentation technology during the meetings. There was some brief discussion about concerns about the compressed schedule for the winter meeting.
We then reviewed the status of the sessions for the Cincinnati meeting. All were in good shape. The adjunct faculty session is now all contributed as we were not able to find any speakers.
The following sessions were agreed up for the upcoming winter meeting in San Diego:
· Diversity – co sponsored with Diversity
· Adjunct Issues - Dennis Gilbert – invited contributed co sponsored with professional concerns
· Aftermath of the eclipse – Todd Lief - Invited/contributed
· Climate Change – Tom Carter - Invited contributed
· Physics of Hobbies – Paul Williams – Contributed
· A Classroom Activity that engages your students – Dwain Desbien
The following workshops were agreed upon for San Diego:
Glowscript and vPython – Dwain Desbie
ROV – Greg Mulder
There was a discussion about asking for the reduced price for adjuncts faculty for the meetings. Tom Carter reported that he had already asked Gordon based on motion from the previous meeting. There was a lively discussion and all felt this was an important issue.
Richard Gelderman asked for volunteers for the eclipse day.
Sunday, 17 July 2016
1. Review of workshops at current SM16 meeting
a. W14 Computational Modeling - 24 attended, full attendance
b. W11 Learning Physics while practicing science – introduction to ISLE – also packed
Both went well. None were cancelled.
2. Review of sessions for upcoming WM17 Atlanta meeting
a. Solar Eclipse - Joe Heafner
b. Physics with Arduinos – Kris Lui
c. Smartphone physics – Kendra Sibbermsen and Ryan Carroll (now changed to contributed)
d. TYC Issues – Joe Heafner
e. Particle Physics – Todd Leif and Chris Stoughton has been cancelled
Abstracts are due by September 15 for contributed talks
Reminder – the suggestions from the speakers come from you! Slot open in Atlanta, some slots open in Cincinnati. Send suggestions to George.
3. Review of workshops for coming WM 17 Atlanta meeting
a. underwater robots with greg
b. intro to project learning in physics has been cancelled
4. Sessions for SM17 (Cincinnati)
Quota is 5 sessions., 2 Workshops
Brainstorming:
a. Workshops
i. Isle (4hr) (Co-sponsored)
ii. Computational Modeling - Tom O’Kuma (and DWeaver and Dwain Debbian) would like to do a similar (new & improved) computational modeling AGAIN with an emphasis on Glowscript and VPython)
1. Dennis Gilbert, Rep of Undergrad curriculum taskforce – statement being prepared directly related to this topic!
2. Could be co-sponsored as Ed-Tech or something
iii. Invention Tasks (Co-sponsored)
iv. Activities in Modern Physics - Trina Cannon, Guy behind John Cise - , “Activities in Modern Physics” - Look at material coming out of Fermilab? Quarknet? As a workshop? Co-sponsored by high school? (Co-sponsored)
v. The Plan – If we can find co-sponsors for everything, great. IF not, then run IL (0.5), computational modeling (1), and Invention Tasks (0.5). Horsetrading goes on in a meeting Wednesday morning, we’ll need a name for the possible Fermilab workshop by then.
DWeaver – move we provide 0.5 for IL, 1 for computational modeling, and 0.5 for Invention Tasks. If we can get a co-sponsor for computational modeling, we will seek to run the Fermilab workshop with a co-sponsor.
Nate Quarderer seconded
Aye – all nae – none
b. Sessions
i. Going Public – How to get published - Renee Lathrop
ii. Highlights from the New TYC Faculty Experience - Tod Leif, Scott Schultz – (for which we must request Monday)
iii. Current space/astronomy/physics news used to help teach physics - John Cise
iv. Impact of/Reflections on TYC Physics Workshop Project -Trina Cannon
v. Adjunct Faculty - Dennis Gilbert, Lynn Gillette – It was agreed to have a very general title for this session with details to be spelled out in description (best practices in supporting Adjunct Faculty, providing access to PER, preparation, professional development, providing financial support and pushing admin).
1. One combined session, or two separate sessions: one about adjunct issues, one about providing professional development opportunities/materials.
2. In favor of 2 – none against – all
a. Tom moves that we approve the 5 sessions, DWeaver seconds.
b. No debate
c. Vote. All in favor of accepting these 5, - all . naye – none.
5. New Faculty Experience – there will be one, definitely! At Univ. of Cincinnati BlueAsh.
6. Tandem Meeting? No place, no host thus far. Should be next year.
7. TYC Leadership Institute? That is going to run. Information about this needs to go well in advance to the executive office so it gets listed with the rest of the registration information. Must be sent to executive office by early Spring, or even by the Winter meeting. Must be before summer registration goes live.
8. Could Tandem Meeting be a single-day and provide outreach to local CC/adjunct population as professional development?
9. Contact Greg Moulder about how Oregon successfully lobbied state legislators to provide funding for registration/travel to CC, or at least adjunct, faculty?
10. Approach the AAPT to see if, for one of the days, TYC faculty could have a discount for single-day registration, and if Adjunct Faculty could have a free single-day registration option.
11. Alignment with AAPT Strategic Plan
a. Sherry - If we are going to continue to be a driving force in physics education, it is important that we engage all constituents of TYC physics faculty. I’d like to see this committee come up with a way to support AAPT and raise the CC membership (currently around 6.5%).
Minutes of CPTYC Meeting (7/29/14), written by Sherrie Savrda
Meeting called to order at 11:35 pm by Kendra Sibbernsen.
Introductions were made. Members and friends of the committee in attendance were Michael Butros, Martin Shaffer, Sherry Savrda, Alex Barr, Tom Carter, Marinna Madrid, C. Dianne Phillips, Libby Schoene, Paul Williams, Krista Wood, Jim Madsen, Anthony Escuadro, Kris Lui, Tony Musumba, Greg Mulder, Aurelian Balan, Scott Schultz, Tom O’Kuma, Dwain Desbien, Nathan Quarderer, and Brooke Haag.
Brian Pyper from the Nominations Committee requested suggestions for nominations.
Minneapolis Review:
TYC Experience session had good attendance (40-60 attendees) and was well received. Graduates from the New Faculty Institute gave talks on how they had instituted what they have learned in their classrooms. The Phun in Physics session had around 120 members attend and the Arduino session had around 70. There was some overlap in sessions with no time in between to get from session to session. The meeting app was good, but it would have been nice to have a TYC track included. It was difficult to find the TYC Resource Room because it was not set up on the first night as specified in the program. It was set up the following morning on the stage of the Union in the Exhibit Hall where the Karaoke machine was the first night. The poster session area was too small and poorly laid out. A suggestion was given that if there were spaces at the ends rather than dead ends, then it would be easier to snake around the posters and it would be more comfortable to maneuver.
WM15 San Diego Update (January 3-6):
Workshops and sessions were set and had organizers. A request was given to call for members and friends to submit papers to the session. The deadlines for San Diego were reviewed.
· August 8 Abstract Submissions Go Live
· September 12 Abstract Submissions Deadline
· September 13 Post-deadline Abstract Submissions Open
· November 5 Post-deadline Abstracts Submissions Closed
SM15 College Park, Maryland (July 25-29)
a. Workshops
i. Learning Physics While Practicing Physics (ISLE workshop) (Eugenia Etkina) - Co-sponsor with RiPE
ii. Physics of Energy (Amber Stuver/Steve Lindaas) - Co-sponsor with Committee on Science Ed. for the Public
iii. Computational Physics (Greg Mulder)
b. Sessions
i. Do you want to teach at a community college? (Invited) (Scott Schultz - Organizer)
ii. Topical Discussions – Challenges faced with English as 2nd Language Students / Anxiety / Communication Difficulties / Students with Special Needs / Reluctant Speakers (Organizer - Kris Lui)
iii. Supporting Adjuncts – Meetings at your college – Electronic mentoring for physics adjuncts at TYC (Invited / Contributed – Organizer Christopher Ubing)
iv. Computational physics at Intro Level (Invited / Contributed – Organizer – Dwain Desbien (Co-sponsor with Ed. Tech.)
v. Innovative engagement strategies for lecture classes (Contributed – Sherry Savrda)
vi. Best Practices for Online Education (Invited / Contributed) (Co-sponsor with Ed. Tech.)
WM 16 New Orleans, Louisiana (January 9-12)
Potential Topics:
Update on IPLS in TYCs
AIP survey / Picture of community college
AAPT-CPTYC website on the AAPT website is up. Will need to be updated. Request for suggestions on how to better use the Google site for the committee.
Paul Williams reported on possible changes in attendance requirements for committee meetings. He reported on possible change to electronic meeting for setting agendas.
Todd Leif called for local organizers for the next tandem meeting. Possibly Kris Lui?
Possible Suggestions for the Tandem meeting:
Non-traditional ways of solving-problems (vector notations 2-D kinematic problems) / Graphical Analysis / Different types of problems (open ended) Techniques for problem solving (Tandem)
Meeting adjourned 12:55 pm
Two Year College Meeting Agenda –Orlando Florida 2014
I. Introductions
II. TYC Guidelines
III. Minneapolis workshops and sessions
IV. San Diego
a. Workshop Ideas
Beginning Arduino (Check Greg Mulder & Pat O’Keefe) (Ed. Tech.? – Co-sponsor )
Modeling in College Physics (Dwain Desbien) (Undergraduate? Co-sponsor)
STEM / Grant Writing (Jay Bagley) (professional concerns? Co-sponsor)
b. Session Ideas
How to publish an article (panel – Gary White) – JURP (Dwain Desbien – Organizer)
Connections between 2 yr/ 4 yr colleges (TYC Partnerships) (Chitra Solomonson – Organizer)
Flipped Classroom – (Contributed) (Paul Williams – Organizer)
Undergraduate Research (Invited/contributed)(Dennis Gilbert - Organizer)
Career Pathways (mentoring undergraduates) / Selling Physics as a Major (Panel – Toni Sauncy & Shannon Clardy)
Do you want to teach at a community college (invited) (Maryland – Scott Schultz - Organizer)
Meeting was brought to order at 12:10 July 15th 2013
Chair Renee Lathrop asked everyone to go around the room and introduce themselves and say what school they are from and if they are a member of the committee or a friend.
Once introductions were done Renee Lathrop provided highlights of the Leadership Workshop which was organized by Brooke Haag and several other TYC faculty. This workshop happened on Friday July 12th and was hosted by Vernier. She also discussed the Two-Year College Tandem meeting hosted also by Vernier and held on Saturday July 13th. Several TYC committee members expressed that they thought the Tandem meeting was very successful as it drew a lot of regional faculty who could not attend the larger national meeting because of registration cost of the national meeting. Besides the cost, several faculty expressed how happy they were with the sessions held because it highlights the concerns of the TYC faculty. Members also expressed the need to have more sample classes or sessions of what people do in their classes at the national meeting like we do at the tandem meeting. It was mentioned that this might draw more TYC faculty to the national meeting. TYC committee will be hosting a cracker barrel to discuss the organizing of future Tandem meeting cracker barrel on July 16th at 12:30pm. Renee Lathrop will be hosting that.
At this time Chair Renee Lathrop reviewed the other sessions hosted by the Two-year college committee at the Portland meeting. She also reminded the organizers to please send her information for the annual report about the sessions like how many attended and how was the session received.
Renee Lathrop also asked the committee to review the goals and mission of the AAPT organization. These goals and mission statement were provided to the committee members electronically through the list serve before the meeting. While no projector was available in the room, a lengthy discussion occurred to provide the chair feedback to take back to the AAPT executive on how the TYC committee was helping the organization meet it’s stated goals. Discussion also occurred as to the relevance and importance of some of the goals over other goals. TYC committee felt that providing educational resources that improve the teaching and learning of physics was a very important goal of the AAPT organization. The committee expressed that continuing the tandem meetings and leadership workshop would be two activities that would support the Goals of the AAPT. Both of these could be planned for Maryland 2015, as this would attract faculty from the east coast to participate in these activities.
Planning for Minneapolis: many suggestions came in through the list serve. Tom Carter mentioned how popular and successful the Arduino’s workshop had been and that it should be offered again in addition having a session where people share how they used the activity in their classes. This session could be a poster/contributed session. Paul Williams suggested a session on “Making Physics Phun” as this is always a popular topic and should attract submissions and be a popular session. Renee Lathrop shared with the group that Todd Leif wanted to do a session which highlight what the participants learned from the new faculty experience, an activity that focuses on sharing the latest physics education research techniques and other classroom activities with new physics teachers. Members of the committee also expressed interest in continuing to have a TYC resource room. As always this resource room would be supplied by posters from TYC faculty. Dwain Desbien was listed as organizer for this room. Dianne Phillips offered to run the session Bridging Engineering, Math and Physics. It would be a contributed session on courses that were co-taught across these disciplines or how faculty aligned these courses since there was a lot of overlap.
It was announced that the TYC committee is in need of 2 new members to join the committee as committee members complete their term. If anyone is interested they can submit their names to the nominating committee.
At the end of the meeting, Nancy Beverly from the Laboratory and Apparatus Committee asked to have some time to see if any of the members of the TYC committee had advice or recommendations for the committee as it edited it’s guidelines for laboratory activities.
Meeting was adjourned at 1:35pm.
5:10pm: Meeting called to order by Adrienne Battle
Brief introductions; roughly 20 people in attendance
5:11pm: Review of TYC-sponsored sessions and workshops so far
· Workshop on arduinos: excellent
· Jazz of physics teaching: excellent. Bad projector, room to small (huge crowd, overflow).
· Sustainability: 20 attendees, it was ok; conflict with Physics in Society
· Pre-requisite issues: good
· How to gear to allied health: interesting/good
Upcoming session: panel on online homework at 6:50pm
In general, “likes” at this conference included lots of cool people present, interesting conversations with strangers, rooms are closer together than at Philly. “Dislikes” included the lack of coffee in the exhibit hall, the scheduling of similar topics in parallel, the confusing layout of the rooms and lack of effective signage/directions, lack of a common meeting place (layout not conducive to interactions), bad internet access at the workshops (some people also experienced difficulty with wifi at the hotel), lack of students/SPS presence.
5:18pm: Portland
· Reviewed submitted workshops and sessions
· Discussed current state and needs of the Leadership Institute and the Tandem Meeting
o Leadership: greatest need is for publicity. Other arrangements are in process.
o Tandem: greatest need is for volunteers to organize sessions.
5:28pm: further discussion of Tandem Meeting.
Question: do we want to allow non TYC people to present? General concensus: yes, IF the topic is relevant and in line with TYC.
Congratulations for Ajay Narayanan, the first TYC instructor to be awarded SPS Advisor of the Year.
Ajay Narayanan suggested that we designate/volunteer “point people” to give advice on specific topics. Ajay volunteered to be the point person for SPS chapters at TYCs. List point people on TYC website?
5:44pm: Brief discussion of possible social meetings in Portland. No conclusion.
Orlando:
· Brainstormed ideas for sessions and workshops
· Voted on best ideas, designated volunteers to organize
Other business:
Adrienne Battle asked for updates on the TYC Guidelines. Tom O’Kuma said he had talked to Bill Hogan, and that it was anticipated to be submitted by the Portland Meeting.
Adrienne repeated Bill Hogan’s and the Board’s requests to the committee:
· Read and comment on the Strategic Plan
· Standards stuff
· Think about ideas for an AAPT session at the APS April Meeting
· Themes, plenaries for future meetings
· Ideas for new programs/initiatives
Adrienne said that the Board is pushing harder to get committees to do conference planning online, BEFORE committee meetings; WebEx can be useful for this
Brief discussion of the Resource Room in Portland; Paul Williams said he will remind the Board about this, and Tom O’Kuma volunteered himself and Dwain Desbien to be in charge of it.
Adrienne reminded everybody that Renee Lathrop will be the new Chair of the CPTYC, and asked organizers of New Orleans sessions to please send Renee a brief summary and attendance record of their sessions for the 2012 annual report.
6:45pm: Meeting adjourned
28 people were in attendance.
Meeting called to order at 5:35 pm by Adrienne Battle.
Introductions were made.
Philadelphia:
Adrienne reviewed the workshops and sessions that had taken place and were still to happen at the Philadelphia meeting.
TYC breakfast: people seemed generally pleased with breakfast. Members emphasized that they liked having a social gathering planned so that they can talk and meet.
AAPT Board requested that we discuss any specific likes or dislikes of the Philadelphia meeting.
Likes: AG session was very good; workshops on Saturday were good (well attended and supported); space provided for NFE workshop was good; TYC resource room is excellently located (very visible and near foot traffic).
Dislikes: Wifi (while people attending workshops or staying in the dorms got passwords to access wifi, other meeting members had difficulty accessing internet); dorm rooms were advertised as being private and instead people found they were bunking with people (general feeling was that people choosing the dorms would have chosen the hotels if they had known they had to share in the dorms); some of the rooms were too small for the workshops (with equipment and people it was a tight squeeze for some); and people would like more of the sessions to be physically closer to each other (this provides people with the ability to float between sessions and allow for greater social interaction); some people expressed difficulty with the walking and getting around to the sessions at the Sheraton and campus and the Inn at Penn.
New Orleans:
Adrienne then directed attention to the agenda of the New Orleans meeting. No one expressed the need to change any of the sessions/workshops. There was a general feeling that people felt the $25 dollar breakfast was a little expensive. Adrienne will look into if we can still advertise for a TYC breakfast if we instead choose to meet at a location off campus as a group. People would not have to register a head of time and it would reduce the cost but still keep the camaraderie of the TYC breakfast.
Portland Meeting:
Adrienne announced that the AAPT board will be reducing the number of winter workshops after the New Orleans meeting. The winter meeting will be condensed to 4 days (Saturday-Tuesday). TYC will be beginning a proposal process for workshops. Anyone can submit a proposal to the TYC chair and then the committee will review each proposal and then commit to the workshops they wish to sponsor. This will hopefully reduce the number of canceled workshops in the future.
Reviewed proposal for “Tips for putting Fire into your Teaching”. Adrienne will contact coordinator for more information before committee commits to the workshop, and forward the response to the list serve for members to review.
Discussed Tandem meeting ideas, using the list of ideas compiled by Bill Waggoner as a starting point.
Workshop ideas for Portland:
· Tipers & Ranking Tasks by Curt Hieggelke [this was chosen for Portland]
· STEM Faculty leadership development (Brooke Haag will follow up) – [this was later placed in the Tandem meeting]
· Astronomy workshop by David Weaver
· Basic MBL
· Energy Workshop by Greg Mulder & Pat Keefe
· Arduino microcontrollers and underwater ROVs by Greg Mulder [this was chosen for Portland]
Session ideas for Portland:
· Online physics labs coordinated by Brian Holtan (I/C)
· Learning Assistants/Tutors and Supplemental Instruction coordinated by Tony Musumba (I/C)
· International Education at TYC/Physics in Two Year Colleges in the Americas coordinated by Bill Waggoner (I/C)
· Assessment coordinated by Craig Jenson (I/C)
· Crackerbarrel on planning future meeting coordinated by Renee Lathrop (I/C)
Tandem meeting ideas (broad focus of workshops):
· Community
· Financial workings of colleges/grant funding
· Sample Lesson/Show and tell/Demo Share
We need solid titles by mid-November (?)
Updating Website of CPTYC:
Concern was voiced that the minutes on the webpage need to be updated. Bill Waggoner, with the help of Tom O’Kuma, will look into gathering old minutes and send them to Adrienne. If anyone has minutes or suggestions on improving the website they should contact Adrienne Battle.
Bob Hilborn posed some questions to the TYC committee in regards to mission of committee and how the executive board could help the committee in preparing for workshops or other initiatives. Discussion ensued and the following points were made:
1) We plan on using the TYC Guidelines that Bill Hogan is coordinating to provide direction for our committee.
2) Susan White will be giving a talk on Wednesday that involves a recent survey of TYC faculty. This will provide use with needed information to evaluate our needs.
3) We need to build and address support concerning the use of adjunct and contingent faculty.
4) We need to advocate more for the technical courses that take place at community colleges. This would involve organizing sessions and attention for these courses.
5) Develop a scholarship program for people so that they can attend workshops or conferences.
Meeting adjourned 7pm.
Location: Johnson
Date: Tuesday, Feb.16
Time: 7:00AM - 8:30AM
Ann Arbor meeting minutes approved
DC agenda approved
Meeting session/workshop updates
i) DC (how’s it going?)
(1) Wii workshop 11 attendees and they’d like to see it again.
(2) Attendees liked workshops.
(3) Don’t like:
(a) two sessions simultaneous
(b) 7am meetings
ii) Portland (see session/workshop list)
March 1st Deadline for abstracts
Poster session for Resource Room (3/1 deadline)
iii) Jacksonville (session/workshop planning)
Session/Workshop submission deadline March 1st.
Possible Workshops
· Simulation Workshop – Ed tech co-sponoser
· nTIPERS?
· Wii for fun and physics laptop BYO-computer (Dwain D and David W)
Possible Sessions
· On-line teaching tips and techniques (biil h)
· Panel/invited what’s on the horizon?(emergin technologies, innovations in physics teaching) john G
· Panel TYC guidelines Mary Beth
· Tandem meeting follow up Tom
· Cracker barrel (Robert Hobbs)
· Accessibility strategies for handling diverse needs - interntional ed
· Recruitment and retention? PER teaches us to look at conceptual tests as primary measure of efficacy.
Ideas for Plenary talks?
· Space elevator? as a topic
· Physics/Energy (non political)
o Physics of el nino oscillation
o Physics of photovoltaics
Feedback to the board
· 12 minute/36 minute better than 10/30
· posters work well but should be centralized (with Exhibits?)
iv) Theme(s) for future meetings?
(1) Jacksonville (WM11)
(a) Chicano Physicist – JD Garcia
(b) Science and Fiction
(i) Physics of the impossible (folks that are doing what Michio wrote about)
(2) Omaha (SM 11)
(a) The Physics of Energy and Environment
(3) Ontario, CA (WM 12)
v) Possible committee (2) sponsorship of APS April ’11 meeting?
No thank you!
Tandem meeting in Portland
I suggest we move this discussion to Cracker barrel
Grant Updates/Planning
Todd & Scott Aug in KS, mentoring for a year, Creighton reconvene
new teacher (<5 yr)
RUE experience for TYC students?
Annenburg physics for 21st century video materials announced.
Membership
· William P. Hogan, Committee Chair (2012)
· John W. Griffith, Vice Chair (2012)
· Chitra Solomonson, Committee Member (2011)
· Paul D'Alessandris, Committee Member (2013)
· Sherry L. Savrda, Committee Member (2013)
· Robert K. Keefer, Committee Member (2011)
· Darwin Church, Committee Member (2012)
· Larry T. Ward, Committee Member (2011)
· Adrienne R. Battle, Committee Member (2013)
· Philip W. Hammer, Ex Officio (2011)
· Marie F. Plumb, Ex Officio (2012)
· Shirley Hyde, Staff Liaison (2013)
Next Vice Chair could/should be either Sherry, Paul or Adrienne
Replacements for those rotating off in 2011? Do it in Portland?
Karim Diff presiding
David Weaver note-taking
Quick round of intros…
1) Call to order 12:17 pm, 12 people in attendance
2) Approval of Minutes from Baltimore meeting
Dwain moved, David seconded, unanimous acceptance,
3) Announcements
a) New Vice Chair – postpone discussion until Chicago
b) Annual report will be done by 11/1/08
4) Edmonton meeting
a) EJS/TIPERS – Went well
b) Newtonian TIPERS – went well
c) Breakfast - 28 people, good food
d) Resource room/ Favorite activities – 11 posters (which were taken down and had to be put back up (maybe we should take our assigned places and have each board labeled with the poster number to match the guide book), need better signage, get banner (Todd will take lead), TYC email address that could be linked to individual in charge of web, post all posters on the web (send to Ajay at Green River Community College),
e) Alan Van H Session – Tom did a great job! / Dwain and Todd will do great too…
5) Chicago meeting (2/12-16/09)
a) 8/9/08 – List of invited speakers
b) 9/19/08 – Abstract Deadline
c) Sessions
i) Energy and the Environment (Todd)
ii) Innovations (Karim)
iii) Projects based (Tom)
iv) Role of TYC in pre-high school Teacher Prep (In collaboration with Pre-High School Committee)
d) Workshops
i) NTIPERS
ii) Cantilevers and nanotech
iii) Civic engagement
e) Visit to Fermi Lab
6) Plans for Ann Arbor meeting (7/25-29/09)
a) 9/1/08 – Session/Workshop proposals from chair
i) Follow up to new faculty meeting with tandem workshop on Sat & Sun* (Scott) and an Invited/Contributed session on Monday (Dwain)
ii) Resource room/Favorite activities (Dwain)
iii) Crackerbarrels – Guideline review* (Bill)
· not part of the session count
iv) Other possible sessions
(1) Innovations
(2) Panel format for issues (Paul) followed by the cracker barrel
(3) Getting Published in TPT, etc. (Mary Beth)
(4) Workshops??? Some folks will already be working at New Faculty tandem workshop. Will solicit ideas over listserv. Energy and 21st century workshop (Greg). Simulation potpourri workshop (Tom and Paul). Digital media workshop (Martin). Need to work out co-sponsorship.
b) 10/15/08 – Session/Workshop request forms from organizer
7) Plans for the future
a) Structure of committee
i) Webmaster (Ajay Green River Community College)
ii) Listserv instigator (VP)
iii) Note taker (VP)
iv) Resource organizer (Dwain)
v) Historian (?)
b) New Faculty Workshops
c) Visibility of TYC committee within AAPT
d) Guidelines/Professional concerns
We’ve been talking about a tandem meeting about the revitalization of TYC. It has been 10 years since a similar meeting in San Antonio (which came as a sort of extension to TYC 21). We should set a deadline for ourselves, so let’s aim for Portland. (Dwain, Paul, Karim, Carol). Dwain will take first step with board this meeting.
Thirty two people were in attendance.
Began by introductions including recognizing Alex Dickinson.
New agenda items Dwain Desbien had some things
Went over Seattle to date.
Keith went over the workshop on Teacher prep hosted (4 headcount) sponsored by CPTYC. Grants workshop cancelled because of cost.
Sponsored sessions: Astronomy in TYC (19 people in attendance). Good session. TYC breakfast tomorrow in 213. No idea about how many are registered. Show of hands showed most in attendance will be there.
Began of a review of media ready room and review of sessions from programs 1.
Went over deadlines for Greensboro. Tipers with physlets, learning physics while practicing science for workshops. Discussion should Grants II be run in Greensboro. Changed to grants and will be offered. Sessions of note will be a poster session in resource room. Dwain will twist arms. Innovation in TYC curriculum. Done by Karim. Computational physics in TYC by Steve. This will be invited.
Suggested a possible TYC open house at a local TYC. Alex will check into the possibility with Hubiz. Logistics need to be worked out. At least try for Baltimore.
Moving on to Baltimore. Workshops in Baltimore (Jan. 19-23): TIPERS led by Tom. Theo for Civic engagement looking for a co-sponsor. Karim EJS look for co-sponsor with ed tech. Session in Baltimore: Panel session comprehensive Universities and TYCs for pipe lines for physics majors… Emerging technologies for wind energy courses (Keith will preside and and Todd help set up). Service courses for career programs (Karim will enter). Project based physics in the TYC contributed (Martin will organize). Bridging the community and TYC (Needs someone to preside). Crackerbarrell on concerns and issue in TYC physics (Martin).
New business:
DD - there was an area chairs meeting on Friday. Maybe the TYC committee needs to move beyond planning the next meeting. There is an interest within AAPT in service. You will see things from DD asking for input on ideas that are probably coming down the pipe. MBM: There will be newcomers on committees that don’t find support for their new ideas since the committees were occupied with sscheduling of programs. The TYC committee has done a good job of addressing its mission, but they need to work on service beyond the business of the mettings. SS: The conclusion of the recent board meetings appears to be that the TYC committee can stay as it is. There does not seem to be any push to get rid of the TYC committee. DD: Also share ideas on the list serve.
Keith Clay congratulated Marv Nelson on having the Green River CC science building named after him. And thanks to Mary Beth for serving on the board.
Submitted by Dwain Desbien
The CPTYC meeting was called to order at 8:00 AM by Steve Siegel
There were 14 members and friends in attendance. Officers in attendance were Mary Beth Monroe and Dwain Desbien (TYC REP). Committee members in attendance were Steve Siegal, Karim Diff, Tom Carter, Myra West and Scott Schultz. Friends of the Committee in attendance were Larry Ward, David Weaver, Paul D’Alessandris, Alex Dickison, Todd Leif, Bill Wagoner, and Susie DiFranzo.
Scott Schultz agreed to take notes for the minutes.
Minutes from the meeting in Anchorage Alaska were reviewed and approved.
Steve gave a review of TYC sponsored events at Syracuse University, both those that had already taken place and those yet to come.
Committee membership was discussed in light of the fact that there are only 6 current members instead of the standard 9. Both Todd Leif and Bill Wagoner from the nominations committee were in attendance. It was also mentioned that there was one person removed for not paying their membership dues and a discussion to the process when this occurs.
Steve Siegel led a discussion on the idea of having a TYC breakfast at Seattle. The idea of having the committee meeting in conjunction of the breakfast was proposed but it was decided that it would miss the goal of the breakfast to help connect new TYC attendees. The discussion moved on to an invited talk from either the new executive officer or Paul Hewitt. Finally it was decided that a less formal cracker-barrel would be more conducive to getting everyone involved and interacting and meeting each other. It was decided that Tuesday morning might be the best time to avoid the new attendees’ breakfast and that the committee meeting should be Tuesday night so that it was afterwards.
Review of sessions and workshops scheduled at Seattle was given by Steve Siegel.
Lively conversation of poster session occurred with pros and cons discussed. Bill Wagoner voiced his concern that we need to put in the number and type of sessions that we feel would be most beneficial for TYC attendees.
This started a discussion of sessions and workshops for Greensboro.
Sessions
1. Computational Physics in introductory physics (???TYC???) *Steve, I didn’t get this, was this session directed at TYC or just introductory physics)
2. Innovations in two year college physics (Introductory talk followed by poster session)
Short discussion on workshops with Steve needing to talk to those that gave the workshops this summer.
Committee members present voted 100% to ask Harvey Leff to extend Steve Siegel’s term as chair with Scott Schultz writing the email from the committee.
The meeting was adjourned at 9:30 AM
Submitted by Steve Siegel
1. Call to Order
Sherry Savrdra served as Chair for her last meeting as Chair of the TYC Committee
There were 15 members in attendance. Officers in attendance included: Mary Beth Monroe, Chuck Stone (Expiring TYC Rep), Dwain (new TYC rep), and our new TYC Committee Chair Steven Siegel
6. Report on Anchorage meeting to date
a. Session times were shortened as an experiment that is going to run through the Seattle meeting. This should help encourage people to use to poster sessions. It was thought that food being provided at the poster session would also encourage poster session attendance. Bill thought that adding Beer would be an extra successful incentive.
Workshops: Theo Koupolis’ workshop had only 1 participant. He did run it anyway and enjoyed the discussion that ensued.
Curt H. had 8 participants for his TIPER’s workshop.
Sherry discussed new methods in divvying workshops amongst committees.
Each committee gets a total of two workshops. But, if you share a workshop with another committee, your share of that workshop is only ½ of a workshop.
7. Syacuse meeting
a. Deadlines
2/22 Invited Speakers list
3/16 Abstracts
3/25 Paper sort
Note: Session minutes are reduced as an experiment that runs through the Seattle meeting.
b. Sponsored workshops
ISLE – I have no notes on this
Engaging Students – I have no notes on this
TIPERs – by Curt H.
Grants 101 – Have Sherry fill in notes about this one.
Mary Beth wanted to know more about the Council for Resource Development that is going to help out with Grants 101 – it sounds like this group specifically aids TYCs
c. Sponsored Session – Sherry reminds all people submitting abstracts to please make them clear as it helps during the paper sort.
d. Resource Room – everyone should bring stuff!
8. Seattle Meeting – this is a joint meeting with AAS.
a. Deadlines
5/2 Session and Workshop requests:
8/3 Invited speakers list
9/7 Abstracts
Discussion: contributed talks are (8 + 2) minutes. A lot of time was spent talking about his new time limit. It was generally felt that the 10 minute model is better for research/technical organizations and not appropriate for us.
b. Sponsored workshops
i. Teach Prep – by Keith Clay and the Green River Comm. College gang (sharing workshop allocation with the Teacher Prep. Committee)
ii. Grants part 2?
iii. Pat and Greg’s Energy Workshop (sharing workshop allocations with “Outreach” committee)
c. Sponsored session: (these are 25 minute talks for the invited talks)
Astronomy and the TYC (Chuck’s idea)
Physics of Whales (Keith C’s idea)
Physics of Volcanos (Greg M’s idea)
8.5 Added: Scott Schultz and Karim need TC Committee nom’s. Talk to Todd Lief
Sherry’s report and additional discussion:
Clempson University is working on a class called “How to become a TYC Professor”.
Sherry said she’d write an article for the “Physics Teacher” on “What it’s like to teach at the TYC”.
Alex and Steve said that they wouldn’t mind getting involved in creating a booklet oto help TYC Prof’s
It was pointed out that ACS has a booklet that might make a good template.
Chuck sys we should do a talk at the APS meeting on “What it’s like to teach at a TYC”.
Other news: AAPT has assigned a staff member to each area committee to act as a liaison. Marie Kouray is ours. We should drop her a note or give her a call if we ever have general questions about AAPT.
Submitted by Greg Mulder
The meeting was called to order by Chair Sherry Savrda at 8 AM. Twenty-two people were in attendance. Guests included Eugenia Etkina, Rutgers University and Juan B (Burciaga?) from APS.
Minutes of the last meeting were reviewed and approved.
Juan announced that speakers are available during the World Year of Physics. Some monies are available for speakers, and that interested persons should contact APS.
Eugenia asked for co-sponsorship of a workshop under her and Alan Van Heuvalen’s leadership which will center on their work in “active learning.”
Dwain Desbian reported that the Nominating Committee is seeking names of people for AAPT standing committees. Committee members are encouraged to send recommendations to Dwain.
Sherry reported on the meeting to date. The Energy workshop led by Pat Keefe and Greg Mulder was well attended, and the Engaging Students workshop led by Scott Schultz and Dwain Desbain, while having fewer attendees was well received. It was noted that there are still problems with overlapping session.
It was reported that at Programs I, the committee Chairs discussed attempts to schedule committee meetings so that they do not conflict with sessions. The continued effort of AAPT to encourage poster presentations was also discussed.
Sherry discussed the progress so far on the Grants Task Force. The group has been granted funding to travel to DC to meet with NSF program directors and others, and will be meeting with Duncan McBride while he is in SLC. Plans are being made for a tutorial and a proposal review panel to be available at the resource room at future meetings.
Plans for the Anchorage, Alaska Winter 2006 meeting were reviewed. Workshops are:
SENCER and TIPERS. Sessions are: Physics and the Environment; Emerging Technologies; Interdisciplinary Topics; and Crackerbarrel on Maintaining Integrity
The Photography of Natural Phenomena workshop and the session on Physics of Winter Sports that were previously planned were not submitted.
Planning for the Summer 06 meeting in Syracuse took place.
Workshops:
TIPERS/PHYSLETS: Tom O’Kuma
ISLE: Eugenia Etkina
Engaging Students: Scott Schultz
Grants-writing: Sherry will work on this; part of the Grants Task Force initiative.
Sessions:
Energy (inv/con): Martin Mason
TYC Grant Initiatives (inv/con): Tom O’Kuma
Project-Based Learning (inv/poster): Sherry Savrda
Physics of Sports (inv/con): Eric Peterson
Outreach Initiatives (con): Alex Dickison
Marv Nelson described Fred Goldberg’s proposed network of TYC and 4YC schools hosting and hosting workshops using his groups materials in physical science for future elementary teachers.
The possible cancellation of AAPT’s future winter meetings was discussed. The CPTYC goes on record as opposing this change, and recommends that future winter meetings be held over the MLK holiday weekend.
Meeting was adjourned at 9:30 AM.
Respectfully Submitted, Sherry Savrda and Marv Nelson.
The meeting was called to order by Sherry Savrda at 7:30 PM.
Those new to the TYC Committee introduced themselves. They included _?_ Erickson and Gerhart __?__ from NSF.
Minutes of the last meeting were approved and the agenda set.
Tom O’Kuma reported that application forms for the two workshops involving Introductory Physics in the 21st Century (IPC21) are available.
Sherry noted her yearly report of Committee activities was printed on the back of the agenda.
Sherry reported the following Executive Board Actions:
Theme for Summer 05 will continue “Year of Physics 2005”.
Poster sessions will be encouraged as a means of reducing the number of paper sessions.
Strict enforcement of existing guidelines that limit presenters to 1 invited paper/year and 1 contributed paper/session.
Invited sessions must have a minimum of two invited papers.
Invited/Contributed sessions must have at least one invited and one contributed paper.
Correctly distinguish Workshops or Tutorials when applying.
Plans for Summer 05 @ Salt Lake
Confirmed sessions are: Teacher Prep, Ranking Tasks, Cracker Barrel of “Coverage of Material.”, Introductory Physics in the 21st Century(ICP21), Innovations in Teaching Undergraduate Physics. There were no workshops listed in the preliminary print out but Sherry will check on those that were thought to be submitted. Sherry will also check with Keith Clay on the status of a Teacher Prep Workshop or Tutorial.
Planning for Anchorage, Alaska Winter 2006
Sessions to be submitted:
Physics and the Environment (Sherry?)
Connecting Physics to Emerging Technology ( ?)
Interdisciplinary Topics in Intro Level Physics (A contributed session, Myra?)
Physics of Winter Sports (Pat Keefe)
A workshop on photography and the “Northern Lights” was discussed. Todd will consider. Steve Seigel suggested that a Cracker Barrel session on “Keeping Integrity in Introductory Courses” be held at the Anchorage meeting. He agreed to chair.
IT seems that NSF is viewing two-year colleges in a very favorable light and would like to see more proposals from them. The Executive Board is encouraging the pre-proposal panel discussed at the last meeting. It was moved, seconded and passed that a task force be created to decide on the best course of action for this committee.
Sherry passed out an outline for a possible proposal from Aaron Winger concerning enhancing physics programs through invigorated an engineering program. Aaron will help anyone interested in pursuing such an endeavor.
Meeting was adjourned at 8:45 PM.
Respectfully Submitted, Marv Nelson.
The CPTYC meeting was called to order at 8:00 PM by Sherry Savrda, Chair.
Those in attendance were committee members Keith Clay, Sheraz Khan, Greg Mulder, Sherry Savrda, Chuck Stone (ex-officio), and Jeff Watson; and friends of the committee Steve Robinson, Scott Schultz, Fred Goldberg, Marv Nelson, Dwain Desbian, Mary Beth Monroe, Curtis Hieggelke, Chitra Solomonson, Marie Plumb, Ajay Narayanan, Pat Keefe, Alex Dickison, Paul D’Alessandris, Tom O’Kuma, Bill Hogan, Tom Carter, Alan Van Heuvelen, Eugenia Etkina, and Myra West.
Keith Clay agreed to take minutes.
A call for new agenda items resulted in the following additions:
Spin-up TYC report (Tom O’Kuma)
PET project (Fred Goldberg)
Nominating Committee (Dwain Desbian)
Resignation of Pat Robberts (Sherry Savrda)
History of TYC committee (Alex Dickison)
ISLE project (Alan Van Heuvelen)
Salt Lake meeting (Sherry Savrda)
Fred Goldberg (fgoldberg@sciences.sdsu.edu) provided a synopsis of the PET course (75 hour course for teacher training), and indicated that he felt that it would be valuable to TYCs. He asked if there was interest in being involved with the project and if the CPTYC would be willing to co-sponsor a workshop. Marie Plumb, Marv Nelson and Paul D’Alessandris expressed interest. The CPTYC agreed to post information on the committee website, and agreed to co-sponsor a workshop.
The minutes of the Miami meeting were reviewed. Bill Hogan noted that he was not present at the meeting. Minutes were approved.
Ajay Narayanan indicated that some past minutes were missing and were thus not posted on the website. Sherry Savrda indicated that minutes and agendas would be forwarded to Ajay for posting. It was agreed that links to TYC projects, upcoming events, and World Year of Physics projects could also be added to the site. The website URL is http://www.instruction.greenriver.edu/aapt/tyc
Alan van Heuvelen provided information about the Investigating Science Learning Environment (ISLE). Students in ISLE do experiments and look for patterns. He asked that interested instructors contact him. He is especially interested in hosts for workshops. Contact information was provided: alanvan@physics.Rutgers.edu or http://paer.rutgers.edu/pt3
Participation in CPTYC sponsored workshops and sessions at the Sacramento meeting was discussed. Curt Hieggelke indicated that the TIPERS workshop had 12 attendees and was successful. Greg Mulder stated that the Energy workshop was also well received, with 15 participants. The Modern Physics and Issues cracker-barrels both had about 15 people in attendance.
Sherry Savrda mentioned the out-of-the-way location of the Resource Room. Bill Hogan indicated the need for someone to be in charge of signing people up to staff the room, to possibly meet on Sunday to plan staffing, or to have someone go to the First-Timers meeting to invite TYC instructors to visit. It was agreed that Sherry Savrda would look into the possibility of scheduling a Resource Room open house during the hour prior to the opening of the Exhibit Hall.
Sherry Savrda reported the information provided during Programs I. The theme for both the Albuquerque and Salt Lake meetings is the World Year of Physics, with the Anchorage meeting focusing on the anniversary of AAPT. Most discussion centered on possible constraints on future meeting sessions. The perceived difficulty of an expanding number of workshops and sessions, with the problems of overlapping sessions was discussed. The problem of parallel sessions on similar topics was also discussed. The draft constraints of a total of 40 workshops and 75 sessions were provided. Draft limits for the CPTYC are 5 sessions and 2 workshops. Poster sessions are also being encouraged. Tom O’Kuma noted that poster sessions are more work than presentations. Discussion centered around whether or not overlapping sessions are really a problem, the question of what people want from a meeting, and how to get around scheduling problems. Paul D’Alessandris asked if an increase in papers was really a problem or a sign of success. Suggestions to take back to programs were: 1) Choices in sessions is ok – why is this perceived as a problem? 2) Encouraging poster sessions means they must be better integrated into the meeting and be made more attractive to presenters/attendees. 3) Scheduling personnel should watch for potential problems, like overlapping sessions sponsored by the same committee. 4) Look at overall long-term trend – is this meeting an anomaly or part of an overall increase?
Albuquerque meeting
Workshops
SENCER Project and Civic Engagement in the Physics Curriculum: Co-sponsoring with Professional Concerns
TIPERS: Currently listed as sponsored by PER – Sherry Savrda indicated that she would get the sponsorship corrected.
Remodeling University Physics did not get submitted. Dwain Desbian indicated that he was still interested in doing the workshop. It was agreed that the workshop should still be run, and Sherry Savrda agreed to get it in the program. Dwain will submit abstract.
Sessions
Modern Physics at the Introductory Level (Contributed): Sherry Savrda, Organizer
SPIN-UP/TYC (Invited): Tom O’Kuma, Organizer
TIPERS (Invited): Tom O’Kuma, Organizer
Other sessions that had been agreed on were not submitted: ICP/21, Physics and the Environment, Innovations in Introductory Physics. It was agreed that Physics and the Environment would be moved to Anchorage; Innovations in Introductory Physics and ICP/21 would be moved to Salt Lake City.
Salt Lake City meeting
Sherry Savrda related the prioritized list of possible session/workshop topics from the Issues in TYC Cracker-barrel, and suggested that they be considered in planning for future meetings.
1) Teacher prep workshop or session co-sponsored with PER
2) New faculty workshop or session
3) Session or crackerbarrel on adapting curriculum/courses to active learning
4) Interdisciplinary topics
Workshops for Salt Lake
Teacher Prep: Keith Clay will check with Green River CC faculty about doing. Co-sponsorship?
Energy in the 21st Century: Greg Mulder and Pat Keefe
Workshop for New TYC Faculty: Paul D’Alessandris and Dwain Desbian will check on the possibility of doing this.
Sessions
Innovations in Introductory Physics (Invited/Contributed): Myra West, Organizer.
Crackerbarrel on Active Learning and Coverage Issues: Scott Schultz, Organizer.
ICP/21 (Invited/Contributed): Tom O’Kuma, Organizer.
Ranking Tasks (Invited/Contributed?): Curt Hieggelke, Organizer.
Teacher Prep (Invited/Contributed): Marie Plumb, Organizer. Will check with PER and Teacher Prep committees about co-sponsorship.
Bill Hogan agreed to be in charge of the Resource Room.
Sherry Savrda asked the committee to consider whether or not there were other projects the committee would like to take on. She related the idea from the Crakerbarrel concerning a possible grant proposal review panel for TYC faculty.
Dwain Desbian, as a representative of the Nominating Committee, asked for nominations for committee membership. Sherry Savrda related that Pat Robberts had resigned from the CPTYC, but that her term expired in 2005. It was agreed to leave her position vacant until new members were appointed. Dwain also noted that there was an upcoming vacancy for the TYC member of the board, and asked that the committee consider possible candidates for that position.
Item 11 on the agenda (possible grant sponsorship) was withdrawn by Sherry Savrda, based on incomplete information having been provided.
The meeting was adjourned at 10 PM.
The CPTYC meeting was called to order at 7:30 PM by chairperson, Marie Plumb.
Those in attendance were committee members: Keith Clay, Greg Mulder, Chuck Stone, Patricia Robbert, Steven Siegel, Jeff Watson, Martin Mason, Sherry Savrda and Marie Plumb; and friends of the committee: Alex Dickison, Carolyn Haas, Bill Waggoner, Tom O’Kuma, Curtis Hieggelke, Myra West, David Wright, Mary Beth Monroe, Dwain Desbien, and Jack Hehn.
Martin Mason agreed to take minutes. It was announced that Sherry Savrda will be the new chair of the committee.
Corrections were made to the minutes of the August 2003 meeting in Madison. Curt Hieggelke indicated that he had discussed an invited/contributed session on Ranking Tasks. The chair indicated that the session had been submitted. There were also spelling errors that were corrected and then the minutes were approved as corrected.
There was a discussion about putting the minutes out on the website ASAP.
Ajay Narayanan from Green River CC is webmaster of the CPTYC website. Keith Clay, also from Green River CC, will assist him.
The URL is ; http://www.instruction.greenriver.edu/aapt/tyc
Bill Hogan has agreed to tend to the list-serve for CPTYC.
Report on the Miami meeting to date:
1. Largest attendance
2. TYC sponsored workshops on ICP/21 and MBL were cancelled.
3. TIPERS was offered under PER
4. Physics and Civic Engagement was offered under Committee on Professional Concerns
5. Seems there were problems listing committees as co-sponsors. Marie will bring this up at Programs Meeting.
Sacramento Meeting:
1. Energy Workshop will be offered by Greg Mulder and Pat Keefe
2. Sessions:
a. Teaching Physics for Health Careers-Contributed- Sherry Savrda
b. SPIN-UP/TYC—Inv/Cont—Tom O’Kuma
c. Modern Physics—Inv/Cont—Tom Carter
d. Physics of Sports and Human Body in Intro Courses—Chuck Stone and Carolyn Haas (Greg Mulder will give an invited paper)
3. Crackerbarrel: TYC issues Bill Hogan
4. TYC Resource Room—Bill Hogan
a. Bill indicated a need to cover the room. When it is manned it is utilized more. John White said he would try to get people to sign up to cover the room.
i. The following people signed up to work on resource room in Sacramento:
1. Alex Dickison
2. Carolyn Haas
3. Keith Clay
4. Patricia Robbert
5. Mary Beth Monroe
6. Dwain Desbien
7. Jeff Watson
8. Martin Mason
9. Sherry Savrda
10. Marie Plumb
New Business:
1. Sherry Savrda as a representative of Nominating Committee asked for nominations for committee memberships.
2. Sessions and workshops for January 2005 meeting in Albuquerque, NM (January 8-12).
a. Session: Innovations in Introductory Physics—Myra West (Inv/Cont)
b. IPC/21st Century: Alex Dickison and Tom O’Kuma (Inv/Cont)
c. Physics & the Environment : Carolyn Haas (Inv/Cont)
d. Modern Physics at the Introductory Level: Sherry Savrda (contributed)
e. TIPERS Workshop: Curt Hieggelke
f. Re-Modeling University Physics Workshop: Dwain Desbien
Membership was asked to keep in mind that 2005 is the World Year of Physics. Anything you already do for the community is possible material that can be tagged with WYP. If you let APS know, they will provide posters and will add your activity to the database of activities. The sub-theme is Einstein in the 21st Century.
Meeting was adjourned at 9 PM.
Bill Waggoner (Metropolitan Community College) welcomed the members and guests and called the meeting to order at 7:00. Introductions followed. Members of the committee that were present included Chair Bill Waggoner (Metropolitan CC), Bill Hogan (Joliet JC), Pat Keefe (Clatsop CC), Denise Wetli (Wake Technical CC), Sam Nalley (Chattanooga State Technical CC), Marie Plumb (James Town CC), Ben Shaevitz (Slippery Rock Univ.), and Carolyn Haas (Salem CC). Absent members Todd Leif (Cloud Co. CC), Chuck Stone (Forsyth Technical CC)
Others present included Greg Mulder (Linn-Benton CC) Keith Clay (Green River CC) Scott Schultz (Delta College) Peter Jeschofnig (Colo. Mountain College) Herb Retcofsky (Spect. Soc. Of Pitts.) Marilyn Atkins (Broome CC), Alex Dickison (Seminole CC), Tom O'Kuma (Lee College), Sherry Savrda (Lake-Sumter CC), Curt Hieggelke (Joliet Jr. College), David Ohlde (Pratt CC), Bernard V. Khoury (AAPT), Patti Hughey (Lansing CC), John White (Modesto JC), Paul D'Alessandris (Monroe CC), Dwain Desbien (Estrella Mountain CC), Martin Mason (Palomar College), William M. Duxler (Los Angles Pierce College), Mary Beth Monroe (SW Texas JC), Sina Knisely (AAPT), Peter Hopkinson.
Announcements were called for.
Curt Hieggelke announced the funding of new TYC workshop grant. The first workshop will be in Florida at Seminole Community College. It will involve partnerships between high school faculty and TYC faculty. There will be support for high school teacher's transportation to attend, as well as the usual meeting costs, room and board. The grant will be a 3-year grant program.
Tom O'Kuma announced that the second group of the Quantum Optics PEPTYC program was now getting ready to start. The Quantum Optics PEPTYC program involves a 2-week summer program (in May at Texas A&M University) with follow-up sessions at the Texas Section AAPT meetings in the Fall and Spring. The program is for 2 years and the TYC participants will receive 6 hours of graduate credit for each of the two years.
Agenda item Old Business-
Minutes of the San Diego meeting were circulated and approved with out correction.
Copies of the final draft of the AAPT Guidelines for Two-Year College Physics Programs were distributed.
Bill Hogan and Mary Beth Monroe were asked to give a status report on the AAPT Guidelines for Two-Year College Physics Programs.
Bill Hogan reported those revisions and updates to the 1990 AAPT guidelines have been completed and approved by this committee. They now have been submitted to the publications committee for review and approval. Mary Beth Monroe a member of that committee acknowledged that this committee has approved these guidelines for publication. They will be forwarded to the AAPT Executive board for their approval at their October meeting. The guideline will be published in booklet form pending board approval.
Bill Waggoner announced that the guidelines were available at TYC website as a word document, and that copies were also available in the TYC resource room at this meeting.
Agenda item --review of the workshops, and sessions at this meeting.
Bill Waggoner gave a brief review of the committees sponsored sessions and workshops for this, the Rochester, meeting. A list of sessions and workshops was included with in the meeting agenda that was distributed prior to the committee meeting.
Workshops included:
W03-Studio Calc/Physics: Combing Calculus, Physics, and Active Learning (Co-Sponsored with Physics in Undergraduate Education)W13-Successful Grant-Funded Projects W16-From Data to Action with the LabPro
W38-Fun Experiments and Demos in Light, Color, and Spectroscopy
W45-TIPERs (Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research) in Magnetism Workshop
Paper Sessions
AN-Physics for the General Populace--Sam Nalley Presiding
CJ-Directions for Interdisciplinary Studies--Denise Wetli Presiding
DI-Success andn Failure Stories: Curriculum Adopters' Perspectives -- Todd Leif Presiding replaced by John White
FE-Identifying and Helping Under Prepared Students--William Hogan Presiding (It was noted that this had been mistitled in the announcer.)
Agenda item - TYC Newsletter – Martin Mason/Bill Warren
Discussion of the spring TYC connections newsletter occurred. Martin Mason now of Palomar Community College edited, and Bill Warren of Lord Fairfax Community College published and mailed the newsletter. Martin agreed to edit and help publish another Newsletter. Carolyn Haas volunteered her college as a possible publisher and will handle the mailing. Bill Waggoner committee chair indicated that the committee had some funds that could be used to help with the mailing costs. Possible topics might include; articles about the AAPT winter 2002 meeting in Philadelphia, minutes from San Diego meeting and Rochester meetings. Tom O'Kuma will write an article on NTFUP. Sherry Savrda volunteered to write an article on the ICP/21 project. Bill Duxler volunteered to write an article about lengthening engineering physics meetings. Greg Mulder volunteered an article on linking math and physics in a physics for non-majors class. Marie Plumb and Dwain Desbien volunteered to write articles. Pat Keefe volunteered an article as well.
Bill Waggoner volunteered to make issues of the newsletter available online at the committee web site in word and pdf format.
Agenda item - Other Business
Bill Waggoner brought up the TYC List Serve. AAPT hasn't been able to make the transition to hosting the list serve. The AAPT list serv doesn't work. You can post a message without an error message, but subscribers aren't getting the messages. This is an ongoing problem with the share ware AAPT is using, and they are working on replacing the software. The AAPT discussion board software is available and works. In the meantime we will use the old tyc21 list and the message board. To subscribe link to <http://www.aapt.org/discus/>. The committee will continue to pursue with Warren Hein of AAPT.
Agenda item - New Business
Nominations/Awards/AAPT web site. 7:40- 7:45
The need for the TYC community to participate in generating nominations for AAPT national offices and AAPT area committees was discussed. Bill Waggoner who is a member of the AAPT nominations committee for this year encouraged people to submit nominations for area committees as well as for the national offices. The nominations committee is still looking for members for the area committee on Physics in the Two-Year College. It was pointed out by Carolyn Haas that we will need to nominate for two-year college representative to the executive board during the fall/winter. This year’s slate of candidates was in the summer announcer. Next years candidates will be nominated by the early spring and will be published in next summer's announcer. As a result the nomination process for next year should begin now. Further, it was brought up that awards happen before the winter meeting, and in particular we should nominate people for these awards; Pre-college Teaching, and Undergraduate Physics Teaching. Nominations for awards should be sent in before October/November. If you are interested in nominating people, talk to Mary Beth Monroe to get forms or get them from the web at the following links.
(Nominations for offices and committees
http://www.aapt.org/aaptgeneral/nominations.html)
(Nominations for awards http://www.aapt.org/aaptgeneral/awards.html)
Peter Hopkinson who will be co-chairing the nominations committee for 2002 visited the meeting, and asked for help in finding nominees for both the national office, as well as the Two-Year College area committee. He should be the lead contact to send in nomination forms for the vice president, secretary, and two-year college representative board positions. Bill Waggoner who is on this years nominations
Agenda item - Efforts of the National Task Force on Undergraduate Physics NTFUP
Tom O’Kuma gave an over view of NTFUP. (see handout file NTFUP)
NTFUP, the National Task Force on Undergraduate Physics, is an effort to revitalize undergraduate physics programs. It is a joint effort of AAPT, AIP, and APS. Other partners in their efforts include Exxon Mobil Foundation and PKAL. The SPIN-UP (Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics) project of NTFUP has recently received funding from the Exxon Mobil Foundation. This project will survey physics departments at four-year colleges and universities to ascertain what changes are being made in their undergraduate physics program.
As part of NTFUP’s efforts, Tom, Mary Beth and Ruth are organizing a SPIN-UP/TYC effort. Part of this effort will be to organize site visits to 10 TYCs site visits by 3 individuals. Since most TYCs don't have departments of physics, what is the “unit of change” at a TYC? Who makes changes and who would finance it? As another part of this effort, a survey of TYCs will be conducted. This effort, if funded, would start in the fall of 2002. One of the outcomes of the project would be to prepare case studies from each site visit. This effort is the next step to TYC21 and could get an early indication of how TYC21, TYC workshops, and PEPTYC projects have impacted the classroom. If this effort is funded, the project would be seeking volunteers to serve on site visit teams. Another effort of SPIN-UP/TYC would be the training of future teachers. Since 60% of all teachers take their science at TYC, TYC have a major impact on how science is taught in K-12 schools.
Discussion proceeded. Curt Hieggelke pointed out that AIP would survey TYC with the workforce survey. He suggested that AIP should survey TYC every two years with this workforce survey. Tom O'Kuma responded that AIP needs external funding to conduct a full survey of TYC as they did in 1997-1998. NTFUP will work with AIP in this effort.
It was suggested that AIP should do a survey every 5 years of TYC colleges since they do the Four-Year Colleges every year.
The following motion was made and approved by CPTYC: The CPTYC supports the SPIN-UP/TYC project on Strategic Programs for Innovations in Undergraduate Physics at Two-Year Colleges. It approves in principle this endeavor to determine the “unit of change” at TYCs. CPTYC encourages the development of a proposal for this project and the seeking of funding for this proposal.
Agenda item - Discussion of the Alarming rise Meeting costs and response to AAPT
Discussion focused on feedback over the spring and summer from Martin Mason, Tom O’Kuma and others to the chair Bill Waggoner about meeting costs. Some email discussion about this topic has already occurred via the list serve. Tom O'Kuma read a handout into minutes. Carolyn Haas the two-year representative to the executive board and ex officio member of the committee stated she would take copies of report to the executive meeting. Bill Waggoner proposed that we collect our personal data on how much it cost for us to attend meetings so we could make our case if the need arises.
A motion was made, and seconded. The motion passed to take to the board. The Committee on Physics in the Two-Year College is very concerned about the cost of meetings and its impact on Two-Year College members of AAPT.
Agenda item - Discussion of the Alarming rise Meeting costs and response to AAPT
Discussion focused on feedback over the spring and summer from Martin Mason, Tom O’Kuma and others to the chair Bill Waggoner about meeting costs. Some email discussion about this topic has already occurred via the list serve. Tom O'Kuma read a handout into minutes (see attached file).
Carolyn Haas, the two-year representative to the executive board and ex officio member of the committee, stated she would take copies of report to the executive meeting. Bill Waggoner proposed that we collect our personal data on how much it cost for us to attend meetings so we could make our case if the need arises.
A motion was made, and seconded. The motion passed to take to the board. The Committee on Physics in the Two-Year College is very concerned about the cost of meetings and its impact on Two-Year College members of AAPT.
Agenda item - Summary of Programs I Meeting
Bill Waggoner and Carolyn Haas gave a very brief description and report of the Programs I meeting. The Philadelphia meeting was discussed. One aspect of that meeting will be centered on the topic of 9th grade Physics 1st, and how many more teachers will be needed for HS. Also discussed at the programs I meeting was the new area AAPT committee on Teacher preparation. Len Jossen will be Chair. Mary Beth Monroe is an official friend. It was noted that that committee would be meeting at Rochester on Tuesday at 1:30. Several members of the TYC committee and friends of the committee volunteered to attend. Also, there will be an invited session on Teacher Prep for Philadelphia. This committee agreed to volunteer as a cosponsor of this session. Also in this regard Greg Mulder, and Ben Shaevitz will write articles for newsletter.
Agenda item - The 124th National meeting of AAPT, Winter Meeting Philadelphia Marriott, Jan. 19 – 23, 2002
Bill Waggoner gave a brief review of the committee's activities for the upcoming winter meeting.
Proposed sessions have invited Speakers list due 8/17, and an abstract deadline 9/4.
Invited/Contributed sessions in the program include;
Todd Leif (organizing/presiding)- Technical Physics a Different Breed of Cat? Experiences From Teaching a Technical Physics Class
Sam Nalley (Sam is organizing and Martin Mason is presiding)-Teaching Physics Online. Sam Nalley will be speaking.
Nader Noori (organizing/presiding) - A Conjecture Oriented Method in Physics Education - co sponsored with HS area committee
Invited sessions in the program include;
Martin Mason (Martin is organizing, and Sam Nalley is presiding)- Revitalizing the Physics Course for Non-majors. Louis Broomfield and Chuck Stone have agreed to speak. Martin Mason will speak.
At Philadelphia the area committee on Physics in the Two-Year College committee meeting is set for 7 or 8 PM Saturday night.
The question of whether we should request a resource room at the winter meeting was raised. The consensus was that do to the smaller attendance of TYC committee members and friends we wouldn’t have the ability to staff the room, or the interest necessary to make it viable.
Bill Waggoner reported that it was too late to add workshops for this meeting but we could still add session, in particular cracker-barrel sessions. Discussion proceeded to the topic of a cracker-barrel on NTFUP as well as having a generic Cracker-barrel on TYC issues. Tom O'Kuma and Mary Beth Monroe agreed to organize a Cracker-barrel session "Issues in two-year colleges. (NTFUP)"
Philadelphia Workshops in the program include;
Curtis Hieggelke - TIPERS in Magnetism
Herb Retcofsky - Fun Experiments and Demos in Light, Color and Spectroscopy co sponsored with pre-HS
Agenda item - Other New Business
There was no other new business brought up.
Agenda item -125th National Meeting - 2002 Summer Meeting Aug. 3 –7 2002 Boise State University
Bill Waggoner called for suggestions of meeting themes and action areas to be considered in planning next summers meeting at Boise. Discussion occurred.
Bill Hogan suggested that we have a cracker-barrel on TYC issues scheduled on a regular basis to identify issues that might become the focus of future sessions. Bill Hogan agreed to lead such a cracker-barrel at Boise.
Bill Waggoner suggested a day on distance education that would include, online courses, distance education courses, and hybrid classes. Discussion followed.
Teaching labs online was suggested as a great topic. Thoughts expressed by the audience included - "This day would include paper and cracker barrel sessions." "We would possibly use the success and failures format of some of our past session, and concentrate on hearing speakers who had the don'ts as well as the do's to talk about."
After the agreeing to revisit this later in the evening, discussion of this was tabled. The agenda proceeded to identifying workshops and sessions.
Agenda item - Call for sessions and workshops for Boise.
Call for paper sessions- (Note requests are due to AAPT by 10/15)
Proposed sessions discussed included:
A session on Integrating Pedagogy into Engineering courses focusing on pedagogy. Suggestions included (1) Get an ABET speaker. (2) Get a TYC faculty that teaches statics and dynamics. (3) Get engineering speaker. Martin Mason volunteered to organize/preside
Success and failures in Teaching Labs via distance Education. Bill Waggoner volunteered to find an organizer/or would organize. Peter Jeschofnig agreed to speak or help.
Innovative Grant Funded Programs in TYCs - Sherry Savrda will organize.
Session on assessment or assessing (this isn't clear but is on the transparency .. not in Martin's notes) John G. (John White?) and Patti Hughey (?) to organize.
Session on Energy/Energy Policy - Pat Keefe and Greg Mulder to organize
Call for Workshops- (Note Workshop Requests are due to AAPT by 10/15)
Proposed workshops discussed included:
ICP/21 workshop- Alex Dickison and Sherry Savrda
Successful Grant Funded Projects - co sponsored with undergraduate committee. - Curt Hieggelke and Duncan McBride
Basic Micro Computer Based Labs (MBL) - co sponsor with the Laboratories committee- Tom O'Kuma, Sherry Savrda, and Marie Plumb
Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research (TIPERs)- co sponsored with the Committee on Physics Education Research- Curt Hieggelke, Tom O'Kuma, and Dave Maloney.
Light and Color Spectroscopy - Herb Retcofsky co sponsored the Committee on Physics in Pre-High School Education.
Computer Software for 1st Year College and High School Physics teachers-Herb Retcofsky co-sponsored by the Committee on Physics in High Schools
Herb Retcofsky proposed a computer software workshop that was well received by the committee. The workshop would include demonstrations of a variety of software programs such as Math Plot, FitKit, and Graphical Analysis as well as programs on radioactive decay, chemical and physical periodicity, atomic spectroscopy, and others. Workshop participants would receive their choice of programs (for retention) for use in their own classrooms. The workshop is tentatively titled “Computer Software for 1st Year College and High School Physics teachers” and would be co-sponsored by the Committee on Physics in High Schools. Ben Shaevitz volunteered to assist with the workshop and possibly be a co-presenter with Herb. Barbara Lotze will also assist. The software would be provided by the Spectroscopy Society of Pittsburgh.
Call for Cracker-barrels- (Note Cracker-barrel requests are due to AAPT by 10/15)
Proposed Cracker-barrels discussed included:
Cracker-barrel on TYC issues (Identifying action areas, goals and themes to base future CPTYC sessions to contribute to meetings) Bill Hogan to organize/preside
Cracker-barrel on online courses in physics and astronomy. - Bill Waggoner to organize/preside.
Call for TYC Resource Room- the community and committee unanimously agreed to hold a TYC resource room at Boise. - Organizer yet to be decided.
The time for the committee on Physics in the Two-Year College meeting was left to the chair's discretion.
Agenda item - 126th National Meeting –2003 Winter meeting Jan 11- 15, Renaissance Austin Hotel, Austin TX
It was mutually agreed to table this item for online discussion as well as discussion at Philadelphia.
It was moved and seconded that the meeting be adjourned.
The meeting adjourned at 9:25
Submitted by Bill Hogan
Introductions
Bill Warren chaired the meeting. Other committee members attending were Sam Nalley, Bill Waggoner, Todd Leif, and Bill Hogan. Visitors included Martin Mason, Mike Crivello, Patricia Robbert, Curt Hieggelke, Alex Dickison, George Bedard, Mary Beth Monroe, Salley Heath, Seraz Khan, Robert Greeney, Keith Clay, Bob Speers, Carolyn Haas, Leslie Dickie, Warren Hein, Bill Duxler, Steven Siegel, and Chuck Stone. The meeting started with everyone introducing themselves.
Announcements
Bill Warren asked if there were any announcements. Mary Beth Monroe informed everyone that the TYC21 book about removing barriers was available at the registration desk and would soon be mailed out. Curt Hieggelke announced the last scheduled workshop of the TYC Physics Workshop Project would take place in Houston in February and that there was still a short time to apply. Carolyn Haas gave a short report on the AAPT executive board activities and told the committee, among other things, that AAPT plans to survey membership in the near future about what the members want from AAPT and that the Powerful Ideas in Physical Science demonstration project will go ahead shortly.
For some reason, there was a discussion during the announcements about how one goes about becoming a member of the committee. Pat Robbert, Bill Duxler, and Seraz Kahn expressed interest in perhaps becoming members.
CPTYC-Sponsored Sessions at Winter 2001 Meeting in San Diego
There was one workshop and two sessions sponsored by the committee at the winter AAPT meeting in San Diego. The workshop covered TIPERS and Curt Hieggelke reported that it went well and was well-attended. The two sessions dealt with preparing K-12 teachers and physics programs at two-year colleges and there was a general feeling both sessions had gone well.
CPTYC-Sponsored Sessions at Summer 2001 Meeting in Rochester
There are currently four workshops sponsored by the committee submitted for Rochester: TIPERS with Curt Hieggelke again, Grant Writing with Curt Hieggelke and Duncan McBride from NSF, Using Lab Pro with Fred Thomas, and Calculus/Physics Interdisciplinary Courses.
There was discussion about three other workshops which had not been submitted for Rochester but which had been discussed in Guelph at the Summer 2000 meeting: ICP21 with Alex Dickison, Basics of MBL with Tom O’Kuma and Sherry Svarda, and Spiral Physics with Paul D’Allesandris. Alex Dickison indicated he would like to submit the ICP21 workshop. No one was certain of the status of the Basics of MBL or Spiral Physics workshops. There was some concern that AAPT’s completely electronic submission system had caused some foul-ups.
Bill Warren mentioned that AAPT has indicated that it is concerned about the large number of workshops planned for Rochester (not just ours) and that there may not be enough space. The consensus at the meeting was that our planned workshops are expected to be well-attended and all should go forward with our support. The possibility of moving some workshops to Monroe Community College (Paul D’Allesandris’ home institution) near Rochester was mentioned.
Five sessions sponsored by the committee have been submitted for Rochester: Successes and Failures of Curriculum Adapters organized by Todd Leif, Underprepared Students organized by Bill Hogan, Physics for the Populace organized by Sam Nalley, Interdisciplinary Courses organized by Denise Wetli, and a "crackatorial" (allegedly a combination of a crackerbarrel and a tutorial) on assessment organized by Bill Waggoner. Lief, Hogan, and Nalley reported that they had already found speakers for their sessions. Everyone was reminded that the deadline for submission of abstracts for Rochester is April 6, 2001.
The committee again plans to try a resource room at the summer meeting as it did in Guelph. Bill Waggoner volunteered to oversee the organization of the room. Bill Hogan suggested it would be valuable to have people scheduled to sit in the room at peak times.
Status of the Guidelines Revision
Bill Hogan gave an update on the revision of the AAPT Guidelines for Two-Year College Physics Programs booklet. Hogan had spoken about the proposed revisions at a session earlier in the day. Hogan distributed a list of proposed revisions to everyone at the committee meeting and asked for input. Hogan indicated that he has to update some statistics and references before the revision is finished for his part. After that the revision has to be proofread, approved by COPATYC, approved by the publications committee of AAPT, and approved by the executive board of AAPT before it can be published. The goal agreed to was to have the process move forward at a pace such that the executive board can vote on the revision at its April 6, 2001 meeting. Bill Warren proposed that the AAPT stipend for revising the guidelines be given to Bill Hogan to distribute as he chose and the meeting agreed.
Status of the Connections Newsletter
Martin Mason reported that he and Ben Shaevitz had discussions following the Guelph meeting and agreed it would be good if the newsletter continued but that it requires some infrastructure and a person to be in charge. Martin Mason agreed to edit a newsletter which will go out before Rochester and Bill Warren indicated that he would arrange for his college to handle the copying and mailing. Bill Hogan agreed to contribute a short article about the guidelines revision. Martin Mason was encouraged to include content promoting the workshops and sessions to be held in Rochester. Warren Hein suggested that the newsletter could be completely electronic but others felt that would not be able to reach people who are not already involved.
Status of Listservs and Web-Site
Bill Waggoner and Warren Hein reported that a listserv had been set up through AAPT with the name TYCPHYS-L@AAPT.ORG but that there hasn’t been much traffic. People were encouraged to use the listserv and it was suggested that these minutes and updates on the guidelines revision could be sent out to the listserv. Bill Waggoner also reported that he continues to maintain the committee’s web-site which can be linked to through the AAPT home page under committees and that he needs to do a little cleaning up.
CPTYC-Sponsored Sessions for Winter 2002 Meeting in Philadelphia
Curt Hieggelke agreed to run the TIPERS workshop again in Philadelphia and Alex Dickison agreed to run the ICP21 workshop again in Philadelphia. The Basics of MBL Workshop run by Tom O’Kuma and Sherry Svarda was mentioned as another possibility but there was concern about access to computers and lab space at a conference center. Carolyn Haas suggested the possibility of holding the workshop at her home institution of Salem Community College in New Jersey which she say is a short ride from Philadelphia.
Sam Nalley volunteered to organize a session on on-line courses but indicated that he will need someone to preside since he wishes to speak at the session. Todd Leif volunteered to organize a session on technical physics. Alex Dickison volunteered to submit a crackerbarrel about two-year colleges and The Physics Teacher and will invite Karl Mamola, the new editor, to attend. Martin Mason suggested a session on methods to increase enrollment in courses for non-science majors. Bill Waggoner stated that if he wanted to see such a session, he should organize it and the committee would sponsor it. It was also mentioned that the author of How Things Work, Louis Bloomfield, would be a good speaker to invite to such a session. It is not clear from my notes whether Martin Mason committed to organize this session for Philadelphia or for a future meeting.
CPTYC-Sponsored Sessions for Summer 2002 Meeting in Boise
Curt Hieggelke had given a talk earlier in a session in San Diego about two-year college physics faculty involved in physics education research and various innovative physics programs at two-year colleges. It was suggested that it would be a good idea to sponsor a session in Boise with invited talks by some of the people mentioned in Curt’s talk. No one volunteered to organize this session.
Submitted by Todd Leif
Bill Warren brought meeting to order at approximately 8:07 p.m. in McNaughton Hall Room 317, on the campus of Guelph University in Guelph ON Canada. Upon initiation of the meeting agenda William T. Waggoner passed around a roster sheet for members who were attending to sign. The official list included the following people.
Meeting attendance, Bill Warren, CPTYC Chairman, Committee Members, Sam Nalley, Ali Yazdi, Denise Wetli, Bill Hogan, Todd Leif, Ben Shaevitz and Bill Waggoner.
Others attending: Carolyn Haas, Duncan McBride, Chad Davies, Michael Neuschatz, Curtis Hieggelke, Marv Nelson, Paul D’Alessandris, Martin Mason, Mary Beth Monroe, Pat Keefe, Sherry Savrda, Greg Mulder, HC Snyder, Marie Plumb, Myron Mann, Patricia Robbert Seetha Subramanian, Tom O’Kuma, Alex Dickison, Jack Hehn, Warren Hein, Scott Schultz, William Duxler
(note 30 names were signed into the roster, however a number of other people "poked" there head into the meeting. Eight of nine CPTYC members were present!)
(1) Minutes of the Winter CPTYC committee meeting held at Kissimmee Florida were distributed and approved by a vote without corrections or major discussion.
(2) Committee Chairman Warren asked for a report from current AAPT board Member Carolyn Haas (Two Year College Representative to the Executive Board).
Carolyn talked about the strategic planning session which was held the week prior to the actual AAPT meeting The major topic of the planning conference was the creation of the following vision statement, mission statement and critical issue statements.
Draft Vision Statement: AAPT will be recognized as the leader in Physics Education
Working Mission Statement: To enhance the understanding and appreciation of physics through teaching.
Three Critical Issues
Increase AAPT’s outreach to and impact on physics teachers
Increase the diversity and number of physics teachers and students
Improve the pedagogical skills and content knowledge of teachers of physics at all levels
She addressed the meeting with the question "What can we recommend to the AAPT board to accomplish the goals found within this collection of the statements. A brief discussion followed with ideas being collected by Haas to be forwarded on to the AAPT board.
(3) The next agenda item was an explanation of an ATE grant proposal being written by Warren Hein AAPT executive officer.
The ATE grant proposal will hopefully draw moneys into the TYC community since the recent moneys related to articulation and teachers prep workshops have ended. With the large TYC influence on teacher education and pre-service teaching, the Powerful Ideas in Physical Science curricular experience is a desired curricular program to distribute into the Two Year College systems. The proposal includes CO-PI’s Charlotte Hill -Tyrant CC, Todd R. Leif - Cloud County Community College, and possibly Sherry Savrda - Lake Sumnter Community College. It will attempt to bring six 2-year college faculty and 18 elementary in-service teachers to host community colleges to hold workshops related to using the PIPS materials. Warren asked for committee for feedback and endorsement of such a project proposal. After a brief discussion William T. Waggoner made a motion that the committee endorse this ATE Grant proposal, receiving a second and a vote, the committee agreed to give such endorsement. Motion passed. Chairman William Warren will write a letter of support for this event.
(4) TYC 21 project CO-PI Marv Nelson, of Green River CC gave brief comments on TYC 21.
All remaining funding will expire for the project very soon. With limited remaining funds three projects have been supported. Tim Dave is having a "chicken soup conference" in California, while Ali Yazda is working on production of workplace physics problems, in Alabama, and William T. Waggoner and Todd Leif are working on production of "Husker Video" Problem expansions in the Nebraska and Kansas regions. These explorations and exercises are being funded to keep networking regions active.
(5) Curt Hieggelke addressed the meeting.
At the Winter meeting in Kissimmee Florida Joliet Jr. College Physics Instructor Curt Hieggelke received an endorsement from the committee for plans for a large centennial meeting of SMET representatives to be hosted at Joliet, Illinois. This event would be corresponding with the 100th anniversary of J.J.C. and their centennial celebration. Curt has decided to withdraw from such a project and politely thanked the committee for their endorsement and assistance with the project. Curt also reminded the group of the 3 remaining TYC workshops that are still being advertised for the upcoming year. These workshops are currently the last scheduled funded workshops from the highly successful project known as TYC Workshop Project that Curt and Tom O'Kuma have provided for the TYC community during the past decade.
(6) Communications within the TYC populace was the major discussion item next on the agenda.
William T. Waggoner lead a discussion about the following areas. The various TYC-21 email alias, questions of a need for continuation of the TYC newsletter (connections) and the communication coordination between AAPT and CPTYC was discussed.
What are some possible resources for keeping this newsletter? Production and mailing of an issue of Connections has cost about $1000.
Would an electronic newsletter be effective or adequate? In either case an editor would be needed, and TYC faculty would be expected to provide content.
Curt Hieggelke suggested that minutes of meeting be sent out electronically. William T. Waggoner. reminded the group that they are being distributed to several email alias and they are posted at the CPTYC Web site after each meeting. The web site does house minutes from the last 4 meetings..
William Warren, William Waggoner and Curt Hieggelke appointed themselves as a committee to organize the general communications for the CPTYC committee with William T Waggoner still offering to host the CPTYC web page, general TYC list serv and now the newsletter. William Warren offered to look into his school covering a mailing until other resources were found. The use of pdf files for a web-based down loadable newsletter were suggested.
Article requests for this newsletter were made of this group and the rest of the larger TYC community.
Martin Mason made a comment that the hard copy newsletter was a good recruitment tool for new and changing faculty. This was reinforced by a number of members who were in attendance.
A motion to form an ad-hoc committee to investigate funding sources was made. Ben Shaevitz. Todd Leif and Martin Mason will work on this funding project. It was also noted that AAPT might have some funds to assist on this and Alex Dickison would be contacted for additional clarification.
Ben Shaevitz, and Bill Waggoner agreed to brainstorm editing a newsletter and publish it, via the web, the list serv, and perhaps in a hard copy format.
(7) Chair Bill Warren reported on the AAPT Programs I meeting on Saturday. The general program planning for for the Winter AAPT meeting in San Diego is now set. A cracker barrel session to discuss the on going project to revise the AAPT guidelines for all TYC Programs has been added to the winter program. Committee member William Hogan also encouraged attendance Tuesday night at his cracker barrel to discuss the importance of this document to accreditation agencies and administration.
It was stressed that the community at large be aware of the importance of revising these guidelines.
A recommendation to have invited and contributed papers added to this session was discussed. Tom O'Kuma volunteered to chair this session and invite William Hogan to present the formal guidelines to the community as a whole. Tom volunteered to find a suitable speaker for this session, who will be able to highlight the large number of projects currently going on in the TYC community.
(9) The committee then decided that the cracker barrel for San Diego should be replaced with a cracker barrel to discuss general TYC issues including the TYC white papers. This will be done at the programs II meeting at Guelph.
(10) We will also ask for the repeat of a TYC resource room. Those who used it felt it was worth while in keeping an active presence at future meetings. Most of membership agreed and the suggestion of an open house type event might be posted for the room in the evening times.
(11) A brief overview of the program at San Diego was presented and a reminder of the August 20th Invited Speaker Deadline was noted.
(12) A review of San Diego Workshops that are in the program followed. They are:
TIPERs- Curt H, Tom O, David Maloney
Guidelines Session- Tom O'Kuma
Bill Hogan invited speaker
Connections to TYC and K-12 Greg Mulder – Linn Benton CC
Connections to TYC and k-12 John Griffin – Linn Benton CC
Liberal arts courses Todd Leif Cloud County CC/ Jan Mader – Physics for Public
Liberal arts courses Todd Leif/Jan Mader- CO sponsored with the Physics for Public Committee
An Astronomy Paper Session - Martin Mason this was turned in but wasn’t formally shown at programs I. Chairman Warren will look into this question.
(13) The committee proceeded with program planning for Summer AAPT Meeting in Rochester, NY.
The five TYC goals and the themes that were to drive our sessions for this event were reviewed. We were reminded that the submission deadline is October 15th for these sessions. Discussion of these themes, sessions, workshops and cracker barrels followed. The following tentative program was suggested.
Workshops:
Spiral Physics – Paul D’Alesandris
Calculus and Physics Combined – Dawn Meredith c0- sponsored with the Undergrad. Ed. Committee
Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research "TIPERs"- Curt Hiegellke, Tom O’Kuma, David Maloney co- sponsored with the Physics Education Committee.
Grant Writing- Duncan McBride Curt Hieggelke
Introductory College Physics for the 21st Century ICP21- Alex Dickison
Basic MBL- Tom O'Kuma, Regina Barrera, Sherry Savrda
Sessions: Invited and Contributed
Success and Failures some curriculum adopters perspectives- Todd Leif presiding
Under Prepared Students- Bill Hogan presiding
Assessment- Bill Waggoner presiding
A Saturday night social possibly at Monroe Community College and a "social" cracker barrel may be included.
(14) The White papers authored by the TYC 21 Steering Committee were briefly discussed.
Bill Warren noted that copies were available in the TYC resource room. He thanked those committee members who have responded to the recommendations, and encouraged others to do so. The committee agreed to make recommendations to the Executive Board of AAPT regarding the issues in these papers.
One common recommendation in these papers is that the CPTYC act to improve communication between the CPTYC and the Executive Board. The committee agreed to ask that the TYC representative to the Board be made an ex officio member of the CPTYC.
(15) The meeting was adjourned at 9:15.
Minutes prepared and edited by
Todd R. Leif leift@cloudccc.cc.ks.us, and Bill Warren LFWARRB@lf.cc.va.us
Submitted by Martin Mason
Bill Waggoner called meeting to order at 8:00
Attending:
Sam Nalley, Bill Waggoner, Todd Leif, Tom OKuma, Curt Hieggelke, Tom Hudson, Martin Mason, John Griffith, Alex Dickison, George Bedard, Greg Mulder, Bob Speers, Mary Beth Monroe, Bob Watson, Marv Nelson, Jonathan White,
(No sign-in sheet was passed around. Whom have we missed?)
(1) Introductions were made and minutes from S.A. were distributed.
Several people wished to make announcements:
Mary Beth Monroe gave a brief overview of the TYC21 project.
Mary Beth also asked the CPTYC members for recommendations on the TYC21 steering committee white papers. The CPTYC members need to make recommendations to the steering committee.
She stated "The recommendations we are asking for are not to specifically address critical issues. I would say that we are asking the committee after reviewing the SC white papers and recommendations, to formulate recommendations to go to the Executive Board, which concern the self-sustaining aspects of the regional and national TYC21 networks. Specifically are there services that were provided by TYC21 that the TYC committee feels ought to be continued and would need support from the Board? I suggest that the Committee and Steering Committee work together to develop this list."
"The committees will meet before Guelph to develop recommendations that will be endorsed by the CPTYC and sent to the AAPT executive board. The recommendations should be sent to the Board in advance of the meeting. The Board needs to receive their meeting packet in advance of the meeting. Bernie Khoury advises that we send the recommendations about two weeks in advance of the Summer Meeting to both himself and Ruth Howes, the new president."
Mary Beth also gave an update on the TYC21 project and project manager. Mary Beth reported that TYC21 has received another one year, no cost extension. The TYC21 project will officially end Feb. 28, 2001. She also announced the resignation of the TYC21 project manager, Konyka Dunson. As the project is near completion, it is not feasible to advertise for another project manager. Therefore a part-time person, Nadia McNeil, was hired to work ½ days during the week. In addition to responding to email communications and overseeing administrative duties, she has assumed the responsibility for the editing and preparation of the electronic newsletters. She has completed the January newsletter and will prepare the May newsletter, which will be the last project newsletter. Nadias job will end June of 2000. AAPT programs staff, Maria Elena Khoury and Annette Coleman will work closely with Nadia during this remaining year of the project.
The question was raised, how much of this position and work do we, as a committee want to take on. A call for volunteers to run TYC newsletter after June was made. It was suggested that Myron Mann be asked for his input as he has ran a successful newsletter in his region.
George Bedard announced the upcoming Minnesota LCI state wide meeting 22-23 Feb. Funds are available for travel and lodging. A hand out was distributed (for more information contact George gbedard@uslink.net
Curt Hieggelke also made an announcement about the possibility of a Centennial Community College Conference on Critical Issues in SMET at Joliet Community College. The conference is currently planned to last three days and will be in the spring of 2001 in connection with the Centennial Celebration of the Community College Movement. NSF and private funding are being sought to support it. It is expected to consist of 3 days of workshops for CC teachers/administrators in SMET. A motion calling for the committee to endorse and support this conference and to forward said resolution to the executive board of AAPT was made by Marvin Nelson and seconded by Tom OKuma. The motion passed unanimously.
Bob Watson from NSF addressed the meeting. "There is a new liaison Norman Fortunberry. ATE closing dates in April could be put back because of White House interest in coordinating activities. We have moved from 0 funding in 80s to 50 million in funding for CCs. This is good progress! There is news of concern: this year for first time since beginning of ATE, budget is not increasing. Those concerned about undergrad efforts at NSF constituency is required. AACC must work hard on congress. Look for a new summary of programs on DUE web site. Budget distributed. "
Discussion followed. Curt commented that we have to write our congressional representatives on the need for DUE support.
Bob Watson noted; " organizations are most effective in raising awareness, and AAPT needs to pay attention and be policy oriented. DUE does not enjoy a broad constituency. Vs. Research. Vs. Elementary and secondary education. The budget pressure for ATE programs needs to increase. The number of institutions submitting proposals and number of total proposals has not increased. For smaller more focused single discipline proposals, i.e. in the $50,000. Range, activist success rate is good. "
Marvin Nelson made a motion to commend Bob Watson for job he has done. Curt seconded and it passed unanimously.
A motion was made by Curtis Hieggelke to have the committee ask the executive board to express our concern on (1) the flat funding of the ATE DUE program and (2) the decrease in funding of the CCLI DUE program. The motion was seconded. Discussion followed. It was stated that the committee expresses strong concern as to the lack of activism to promote funding for undergraduate education. Discussion centered on how our organization needs to take action to promote funding of our area, and that we express our concern about funding level for ATE and undergraduate education to NSF. The motion passed unanimously.
(2) Bill Waggoner gave a brief summary of CPTYC sponsored events at this meeting.
Kissimmee Update
Sessions- Trends and Developments in Introductory Physics -Curt Hieggelke (Monday)
Physics Courses Integrated with Other Disciplines-Andrew Rex
Building Bridges and Partnerships-Bill Waggoner (Wed)
Workshops- Developing Conceptually Linked Research Based Exercises- Curt/Tom
Crackerbarrel Exploring Issues Critical for Two-Year Colleges Marv Nelson
(3) Bill Waggoner gave a Guelph update.
Sessions scheduled include
Distance Learning and Web Based Courses - Tom O 'Kuma
Failures and Success Stories: Some Curriculum Adopters Perspectives- Todd Leif
TYC21: What weve learned - Paul DAlessandris
Workshops scheduled include
Spiral Physics Active-Learning Workbooks -Paul D'Alessandris
Basic Microcomputer Based labsTom OKuma
Calculator Based Control SystemsFred Thomas
Introductory College Physics/21st Century
Fun Experiments and Demos in Light, Color, and SpectroscopyHerbert Retcofsky w/Pre-Hs committee
Student ConfidenceBetty Preece w/ Women in Physics
Cracker Barrels include
TYC21 Regional Reports - Bill Warren
Adjunct Issues Sam Nalley/Bill Waggoner
Other sessions: Working Session on Revising TYC Guidelines Booklet -Bill Hogan
And we will have the TYC Resource Room!
Discussion followed. Bill Waggoner noted that the room wouldnt be able to hold scheduled AAPT sessions/workshops/crackerbarrel. He then called for an organizer and ideas for the TYC resource room. It was recalled how this room was intended to be a sharing center when we discussed it at San Antonio. John Griffith noted we might have better attendance if participants had something to take back and try. Make and Take show and tell projects. Student Activities. The idea that this was to be an interactive area was put forth.
Marv Nelson volunteered to be the contact on TYC resource room. It was suggested a call be made to the regional coordinators to be responsible for the planning activities for their regions use of the room. Other ideas included; everybody bringing a favorite lab, and Regional update posters.
Other Discussion: Curt Hieggelke wanted to get approval from the chair to submit a post deadline workshop "TIPPERS and RPE at GUELPH.". There was some question as to whether we can get this approved /slipped in. Bill Waggoner and Curt agreed to pursue this.
(4) Planning for the 2001 Joint AAPT/AAS Winter Meeting San Diego Jan 6 - 11 was next on the agenda.
First Marv Nelson and Bill Waggoner made comments on TYC21 and the April Fort Worth "Vision for Tomorrow meeting". At this meeting the Regional Coordinators, PIs and the CPTYC members met. Marv gave a brief summary of this meeting where we defined where we were going with the network. The AAPT is urging TYC to maintain network, and the CPTYC will assume the mission of continuing the network and its development as well as plan and foster new activities. At this meeting a Vision statement was written and endorsed by the CPTYC.
Bill Waggoner read the vision statement: A Community Vision for Two-Year College Physics Faculty
"As two-year college members of the physics community, we need to actively communicate and promote our belief that physics is an important part of all students education. Further, we believe that physics teachers who regularly communicate with each other can share ideas and provide a better set of learning opportunities for their students. Our network of physicists will sustain local and national conversations and activities about methods and styles of learning and teaching. These conversations and activities will support scholarship that is widely available, easily accessible and invites comment and collaboration."
A list of 5 action areas was also developed at that meeting, and was listed on the agenda.
Action Areas include (1) A link to future teachers, (2) Directions for Interdisciplinary Studies, (3) The Under prepared Student, (4) Physics and the General Populace, (5) Assessment
Bill Waggoner made the comment that the committee needed links to all the regions and members of TYC21. Since we are at the beginning of this transition where we no longer have a separate national meeting we are especially in need this input in planning future contributions to the national AAPT meetings. Guelph is already planned and the San Diego meeting is the first meeting we will plan. He suggested that since every region had a hand in drafting this vision statement and these action areas via their regional coordinators, and since the committee has endorsed them they would make excellent themes for future sessions or meetings. Much discussion followed. It was suggested that since the summer meeting will more likely be the better attended of the two national AAPT meetings that we focus on just two of the action areas for San Diego and address the remaining three the following summer at the Rochester meeting.
It was noted that this doesnt mean we have to plan exclusively around these topics, and that any meeting contributions to the national meetings would be welcomed and could be endorsed by the CPTYC. Several people commented that by focusing on these topics we would gain an advantage in planning future meetings because we would be able to communicate to the regions and regional coordinators the time line for the meetings general themes much further in advance.
After further discussion it was moved, seconded and passed that the San Diego meeting would address the action areas; Physics for the General Populace, and A Link to Future Teachers.
Further discussion centered on the San Diego meeting. It was noted this is a joint meeting with the American Astronomical Society and we will follow the AAS meeting format of 1 ½ to 2 hour sessions, rather than the AAPT format. Marv Nelson made the comment that we could view the focus areas as a thread for the meeting and we proceeded to discuss possible themes for each area. Alex Dickinson suggested that a logical theme for the Physics for the General Populace area should involve Astronomy.
After much discussion the following unifying theme was identified for the action area Physics for the General Populace Physics and Astronomy as part of the liberal arts education in two-year colleges.
The other theme would address the area of A Link to Future Teachers.
Discussion followed on having more sessions for each since they will be shorter. For invited sessions we will have only. 3 people per session. Discussion followed on the sessions for the two themes. A consensus was reached on the pursuing the following paper sessions;
A Link to Future Teachers
1-TYC programs for instructing pre-service: John Griffin to preside
2- TYC programs for in-service teachers. Greg Mulder to preside
Physics for the General Populace Physics and Astronomy as part of the liberal arts education in two-year colleges.
3- Physics courses for teaching the liberal arts student and other citizens. Possibly given as a round table discussion. It was suggested that Paul Hewitt be asked to give an invited paper- coordinator?
4- John White from the Committee on Science Education for the Public asked the committee to sponsor a joint session. Dave Kriegler (who is at UNO) from the CSEPC will work out the details with Bill Waggoner. White10@llnl.gov
5- Promoting astronomy at TYCs Possible speakers, Paul Marquard web based delivery, David Iveta asynchronous delivery, Ashley (?) for clubs, Martin Mason to coordinate.
3-Preliminary Guidelines. "Work from GUELPH" coordinated by Curt Hieggelke (Maybe not? Maybe Bill Hogan.) A Cracker barrel was also suggested. The committee will facilitate planning for this. It was agreed this needs to be on the agenda at next meeting.
Curt Hieggelke called for a session to review the Working Session on Revising TYC Guidelines Booklet being organized at Guelph by Bill Hogan. He felt we need to establish a definite time line for undertaking this process. Much discussion followed on how we could pursue this, and whether we would be able to have a paper session report on this. It was suggested that the committee solicit an editor for the process. Among many suggestions one was that we ask Bill Hogan (and the committee) to do this. Alex Dickinson proposed the use of the venture fund stipend to redo the high school and TYC booklets. Alex pointed out "The AAPT Executive Board approved $1500 from the Venture Fund to rewrite the TYC Guidelines book. This can be for the editor or be split up among as many people as desired. It is up to the people doing the work to decide how to split it." As editor for the last revision Alex found the drafts needed input from everyone on the committee, and from people throughout the TYC community. It was noted that this is especially trued since the TYC community is so diverse that these Guidelines are trying to serve everyone.
The committee agreed to make a call for volunteers to the TYC list serves to work on the TYC guideline booklet and pursue this. The following session and cracker barrel was then agreed to.
4- Invited session report on preliminary guidelines/Cracker barrel/working session on guidelines:
Where Bill Hogan would make report at the AAPT meeting on TYC booklet. Lots of input and discussion followed.
Workshops identified for San Diego included:
1) Set of activities to deliver to in-service teachers at the elementary level.-- John Griffith and Greg Mulder
2) TIPPERS in Magnetism --Curt Hieggelke
3) Spectroscopy Herb Retcofsky
Curt Hieggelke suggested the following workshop as an action area related to the recommendation to the AAPT executive board resolution that was passed by the CPTYC in response to Bob Watsons comments.
4) Grant Writing for TYCs. We would solicit Duncan McBride how to get funding for your projects. Curt will ask Duncan.
It was suggested that the summer meeting would be a better meeting to have this since attendance by the TYC community will likely be much larger than the San Diego winter meeting. Curt agreed to look in to getting a post deadline workshop on grant writing for GUELPH.
Discussion on a resource room for the winter meeting followed. Because of the smaller number of TYC people likely to be in attendance it was questioned on how useful this room might be. Nothing definite was decided.
A suggestion was made that an advertisement in announcer for the resource room as the informal meeting location at Guelph be made.
Other discussion followed centering on the numerous list serves and aliases used through out the TYC21 community. It was noted that we need to encourage the use of list servs, particularly since the project manager position will end and the TYC21 newsletters maybe go away. Alex Dickinson volunteered to explore the various list servs and alias in use now. Alex will make recommendations to the committee on how to best promote there use. It was stated that the AAPT would be setting up a list serv for each committee. Alex will explore the list servs.
Other topics centered on the resource room, and activities, a need for a social chairman, and a possible TYC beer bust(?). The CPTYC will make a call for ideas and suggestions for the Guelph resource room.
(5) A brief discussion of the next agenda item the 2001 AAPT Summer Meeting Rochester NY July 21 - 25 followed. It was agreed to center on the action areas: Assessment, The Under Prepared Student, and Directions for Interdisciplinary Studies. It was agreed that we consider holding another grant writing workshop again because of the availability of a large TYC audience at this meeting.
Bill Waggoner agreed to continue working on the next agenda item the TYC web page and will communicate and promote discussion using the list serves.
It was agreed to table the discussion of the final agenda item, the 2002 AAPT Winter Meeting Jan 19 -23 in Philadelphia for a later date.
(8) The meeting adjourned by unanimous proclamation at 10:15 p.m.
Minutes prepared/edited by: mmason@dccd.cc.ca.us/ and bwaggoner@metropo.mccneb.edu
Submitted by Bill Hogan
1) Introductions
Paul DAlesandris, committee chair, called the meeting to order at 8:30 PM.
Those in attendance introduced themselves. Sam Nalley, Bill Waggoner, Bill Warren, and Bill Hogan were the committee members in attendance. Other people interested in physics at TYC's attending included John Hubisz, Denise Wetli, Carol Palma, Frank Palma, Ben Shaevitz, Alex Dickison, Todd Leif, Rob Kimball, John Griffith, Tom OKuma, Curt Hieggelke, Devan Whitley, Sherry Savrda, Myron Mann, Mary E. Burrows, Charlotte Hill, Chuck Robertson, Jack Hehn, and Carolyn Haas.
Minutes for the previous committee meeting in Anaheim in January were distributed.
2) Review of the TYC Tandem Meeting and AAPT Meeting in San Antonio, TX
Paul DAlesandris began the discussion by asking, "How do we keep the same energy in the future when well be integrated with the AAPT meeting?"
There was general agreement that the one-day separate TYC meeting held on Monday had been successful.
Several people were concerned that many attendees of the TYC meeting did not stay for the rest of the AAPT meeting. Did people only come to the TYC meeting because they were reimbursed for their expenses?
Paul DAlesandris expressed concern that 3 of the 5 workshops sponsored by the TYC committee in San Antonio were canceled. Possible reasons for the cancellations were discussed.
Paul DAlessandris pointed out that future AAPT meetings will start on Saturday and end on the following Wednesday and perhaps this would make it easier for faculty at TYC's to attend.
Paul DAlessandris informed the meeting that Bernard Khoury says TYC must be integrated into the AAPT meeting in the future but it would be possible for TYC sessions to be concentrated on one or two days and AAPT would publicize the TYC sessions.
Paul DAlessandris suggested that the TYC committee should arrange for a TYC resource room at future meetings similar to the PIRA resource room at current meetings. This room would help TYC people find each other at the larger AAPT meeting. This room might be used for "sharathons", crackerbarrels, or other sessions and might help overcome the obstacle of AAPTs early deadlines for sessions.
Curt Hieggelke suggested that it would be a good idea to have a theme unifying TYC sessions and activities at future AAPT meetings. Curt suggested "Internet Courses" as a possible theme.
Alex Dickison commented that the TYC meeting was successful in part because of the format of "focus sessions" which is not a format used in AAPT meetings. Alex felt we should use the success of the TYC meeting as an opportunity to establish a new format similar to "focus sessions" for future AAPT meetings.
Several attendees worried that the TYC community might not have the time or resources to attend two AAPT meetings each year. The feeling of the attendees was that it would be best in the short term to start by strengthening the TYC presence in future summer AAPT meetings and maintaining the current level at winter meetings.
Rob Kimball pointed out that there has been a great deal of involvement at the regional level by people who have not attended national meetings and suggested that these people would be a good source of new manpower and ideas.
Paul DAlessandris emphasized his belief that the TYC committee should only be responsible for dealing with the paperwork and bureaucracy of any future sessions while the entire TYC community is responsible for coming up with ideas for these sessions.
3) Discussion of the program for the Winter 2000 meeting in Orlando, FL
Tom OKuma and Sherry Savrda will lead a workshop introducing participants to MBL.
Curt Hieggelke, Dave Maloney, and Tom OKuma will lead a workshop on developing conceptually-linked research-based exercises.
Marv Nelson will preside at a crackerbarrel focusing on TYC issues. This crackerbarrel should be scheduled in the evening early in the meeting such that it does not conflict with the TYC committee meeting that should also be held in the evening early in the meeting.
Curt Hieggelke will organize one of the paper sessions to be sponsored by the TYC committee on "Trends and Developments in Introductory Physics". Curt says the session will be about Internet courses and the topics discussed at the 4th Introductory Physics Conference Curt hosted in summer of 1999. Curt was very insistent that he wished this session to be scheduled for Monday.
Tom OKuma had planned to organize one of the paper sessions to be sponsored by the TYC committee on "Distance and Internet Learning in Introductory Physics". Tom suggested it might be good to postpone this session to a later meeting with Curts session already covering Internet courses.
No one had committed yet to organize one of the paper sessions to be sponsored by the TYC committee that was planned as "Building Bridges Between TYC's and High Schools". Todd Leif suggested we should expand this session to include building other bridges such as with industry, four-year colleges, and the community as well as with high schools. Bill Waggoner suggested we could get a new perspective by inviting the people who are partners with TYC's to speak as well at the people at the TYC's. Bill Waggoner volunteered to organize this session that will be changed to include all bridges not just with high schools.
Alex Dickison announced he will try to arrange a social gathering of TYC people attending the Orlando Meeting.
4) Discussion of the program for the Summer 2000 meeting in Guelph, Ontario
Paul DAlessandris read a reminder from AAPT that Guelph is in a foreign country and U.S. citizens planning to attend should bring a passport or birth certificate along to prove citizenship because a drivers license alone is not sufficient.
Curt Hieggelke suggested the TYC committee should sponsor a paper session at which the white papers produced by the TYC21 steering committee would be presented. Paul DAlessandris volunteered to organize this session.
Paul DAlessandris brought up the possibility of having a crackerbarrel on TYC regional activity. Alex Dickison felt we needed to clearly identify whether this regional activity referred to the regions from TYC21. Alex also expressed his belief that focus sessions are preferable to crackerbarrels because speakers who do a lot of work can get credit for it. Bill Waggoner raised the issue of including Canadians in a discussion of regional activity since the meeting will be in Canada. It was decided that Mary Beth Monroe and/or Marv Nelson would be asked to organize a crackerbarrel on TYC21 regional activity updates.
Paul DAlessandris asked the attendees for ideas for topics to be addressed in the sessions sponsored by the TYC committee. John Griffith suggested lab issues such as lab pedagogy and lecture/lab compensation parity. Curt Hieggelke suggested the problems of distance and Internet learning. Bill Warren reminded us that we need to start working on an update of the AAPT Guidelines booklet for TYC physics programs. Myron Mann proposed a session about the problems of adjunct faculty teaching many places (often with little support) and Bill Hogan suggested expanding the session to include all adjunct issues from the perspective of the adjuncts and from the perspective of the TYC community. Todd Leif felt we should have sessions to address teaching in multiple disciplines and interdisciplinary courses. Todd also suggested a session on the trials and tribulations of field testing new curricula, software, and products.
The meeting decided that the TYC committee would sponsor three paper sessions in Guelph. The topic for one session will be distance learning and Tom OKuma will organize this session (this session was originally planned for the Winter 2000 meeting in Orlando). The topic for another session will be the impact of new curricula at TYC's and Todd Leif will organize this session. The topic for the third session will be the white papers written by the TYC21 steering committee and Paul D'Alessandris will organize this session
The meeting decided that the TYC committee would sponsor three focus sessions in Guelph. The topic for one session will be updating the AAPT Guidelines booklet and this session will be a working session organized by Bill Hogan. Sherry Savrda expressed her interest in being part of the revision team. The topic for another focus session will be TYC21 regional updates and Mary Beth Monroe and/or Marv Nelson will be asked to organize this session. The topic for the third session will be adjunct issues and Tim Dave and/or Gordon Aubrecht were suggested as possible organizers. The possibility of Gordon using his "True Confessions" format where small groups discuss various hypothetical scenarios was suggested.
The meeting decided the TYC committee would possibly sponsor three workshops in Guelph. The spectroscopy workshop led by Herb Retcofsky always fills and is well received and the TYC committee will continue to sponsor it. Curt Hieggelke will possibly lead a workshop on TIPERs (Tasks Inspired by Physics Education Research) perhaps with a less silly name by then. Paul DAlessandris tentatively plans to lead a workshop on SPIRAL Physics.
The meeting agreed that we should act on Paul DAlessandriss earlier suggestion that we have a TYC room at the Guelph meeting. It is hoped this room can be a place for TYC people to find each other at the AAPT meeting. The focus sessions, the TYC committee meeting, and a TYC social gathering will be held in the TYC room.
Paul DAlessandris stressed the importance of those who had volunteered to organize sessions getting the paperwork in before the fast approaching deadline.
5) Discussion of meetings in Winter 2001, Summer 2001, Winter 2002
The Winter 2001 meeting will be January 6-11, 2001 in San Diego, CA. The deadline for adding sessions is May 15, 2000. Several topics for sessions were discussed including those topics suggested for Summer 2000 in Guelph which could not be fitted in such as problems with distance and Internet learning, lab issues, teaching multiple disciplines, and teaching interdisciplinary courses. Other topics suggested for the Winter 2001 meeting in San Diego included under-prepared students and preparing K:8 teachers in science.
The Summer 2001 meeting will be July 21-25, 2001 in Rochester, NY, and the Winter 2002 meeting will be January 19-23, 2002 in Philadelphia, PA.
6) Other business
It was pointed out that the TYC committee web site was in need of a new home with Susie Evers retiring. Bill Waggoner volunteered to take over the site.
Curt Hieggelke encouraged nominating TYC people for Distinguished Service Citations and other AAPT awards.
Curt Hieggelke reminded us that Cliff Swartz is retiring as editor of The Physics Teacher and a search is being conducted for a new editor.
Curt Hieggelke announced that AAPT would no longer revise its introductory physics exam.
Curt Hieggelke announced that his (and my) home institution, Joliet Junior College, will be celebrating its centennial in 2001. One of the events will be the college hosting a joint meeting of the Illinois Section and the Chicago Section of AAPT in the fall of 2001. Jack Hehn, Evelyn Patterson, and Jim Stith have already agreed to come and speak. Curt invited any interested TYC faculty to come.
7) Adjournment
Bill Hogan motioned to adjourn at 10:30 PM and many, many people seconded.
Submitted by Bill Waggoner
1. Paul D'Alessandris (chair elect) chaired the meeting and called the meeting to order at 7:30 PM.
A. The agenda of the meeting consisted of an informal discussion of; (1) the Anaheim meeting (2) the TYC national meeting in conjunction with AAPT in San Antonio scheduled for the summer of 1999. (3) our AAPT summer meeting workshops and sessions, and finally (4) the workshops/sessions sponsored by the committee for the Orlando AAPT winter meeting.
2. The meeting began with introductions.
A. Members present: Paul D' Alessandris Incoming members present: Bill Waggoner.
B. Others present included: Carolyn Haas, Marv Nelson, Tom O'Kuma, Richard Sommerfield, Alex Dickinson, Ken Stepnitz, Denise Wetli, Hildelisa Hernadez, Jack Hein, Curtis Hieggelke, Bob Boeke, Marilyn Neis, Theo Koupelis, Myra West, Bob Speers, Konyka Dunson, Beverley Taylor, Bernard Olanaytemeian, and Bernard V. Khoury.
3. Discussion of this AAPT meeting:
A. Two TYC sessions were sponsored. It was noted that they were dual sessions, at the same time. They were Trends and Developments in the Teaching of Waves in Introductory Physics, and Physics in the Market Place (Alex commented that the later session saw "the most people ever for that topic").
B. There were two sponsored workshops. It was noted that the one of the Calculator based workshops was canceled for lack of enrollment
4. Discussion of the AAPT and TYC meetings in San Antonio:
A. TYC is planning 5 workshops for the AAPT meeting including, Calculator based Control systems, Introductory College Physics in the 21 st century, Ranking Tasks, From the Big Bang to the Bomb, and Fun Experiments/Demonstrations in Light and Color.
B. The chair described the tentative San Antonio sessions. These included Trends in Life Sciences. Curt suggested a panel discussion on TYC21 and isolation.
C. Much discussion occurred concerning the details of the San Antonio meeting. A general picture emerged where the meeting would begin on Sunday prior to the AAPT meeting, Monday would consist of a full day program. Tuesday would be an overlapping day of TYC activities and AAPT activities.
D. A discussion followed concerning registration. TYC people would have to pay 1 day member rate for registration if attending the TYC conference only. TYC members would be able to register at AAPT member rates, even if not a member.
E. Bernie mentioned that we needed to get the dates set. There was some confusion about what the advertisement in the Announcer was going to have for starting and ending dates.
F. A discussion followed on the San Antonio program agenda. Paul expressed his desire to involve the regional TYC21 representatives in the process of setting the agenda. He described the Monday program agenda as being worked in the subcommittee chaired by Gordon Aubrecht. A consensus was reached calling for the session agenda to be set before the regional spring meetings so as to get the regions input and involvement in the sessions. Curt Hieggelke expressed a need for sessions that were participatory in nature and would "Force people to actively lay out your plans .". Curt suggested we have a session which focused on success stories, as well as suggesting we invite all the ATE centers to come this meeting. A topic of conversation included having funded projects exhibited on Monday night of the meeting. Curt also suggested targeting something for new TYC faculty in a session as a means to encourage senior members to bring the junior faculty to the meeting. Two other sessions to go along with success stories (a) out reach to high schools, and (b) ILI funded projects were suggested.
5. Discussion of the AAPT program for the summer meeting San Antonio:
A. The chair solicited suggestions for the order/structure of workshops that would encourage TYC people to stay for the AAPT meeting. Marv Nelson suggested a cracker barrel, concerning various topics, such as -- gaining stature in the overall community, common issues in two year colleges. A review of the invited paper sessions set for San Antonio followed. Alex Dickison agreed to put together the session on ATE's (The Impact of TYC's; Industrial Partnerships).
6. Discussion of the AAPT winter meeting in Orlando:
A. Several workshops for the Orlando meeting were discussed. Paul D'Alessandris' "Spiral Physics", Tom O'Kuma's "Basic MBL Labs". The chair called for volunteers. An invited/contributed paper session about distance learning was suggested by Tom O'Kuma.
7. Other business. The chair solicited suggestions for plenary speakers, order of cracker barrel, committee meeting order.
8. Adjournment.
A. The meeting was adjourned at 10:00 PM.