Preparing physics graduate students to be educators

Price, Edward; Finkelstein, Noah

doi:doi:10.1119/1.2897288

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American Journal of Physics -- July 2008 -- Volume 76, Issue 7, pp. 684

Preparing physics graduate students to be educators

Edward Price¹ and Noah Finkelstein²

¹Department of Physics, California State University at San Marcos, San Marcos, California 92096
²Department of Physics, University of Colorado at Boulder, Boulder, Colorado 80309

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We discuss two efforts that support the preparation of graduate students for their roles as professional physicists, particularly in the areas of teaching and education research. The Preparing Future Physicists program and the Teaching and Learning Physics course are mutually supportive, address broader graduate roles, and support the development of physics education research. Students’ participation in these activities increases their mastery of physics, develops their interest in education and teaching, and engages them in research projects in physics education. We describe these efforts and identify critical features of their successes.