This special pre-session workshop will be held at Illinois Central College
 on Thursday afternoon  and evening and on Friday morning.

Thursday, October 14 - Plenary Session (Academic Building - Room 212C)
 
1:00 – 1:15 p.m.  Welcome, Orientation, Overview
                                Kenneth Mellendorf, Physics Department, Illinois Central College
1:15 – 1:45 p.m.  Status of the Illinois High School Physics Teacher Pipeline
                                Carl Wenning, Physics Teacher Educator, Illinois State University
1:45 – 2:00 p.m.  High School Science Teacher Shortage from a Superintendent’s Perspective
                                Chuck Fabish, Superintendent of Peoria Public Schools
2:00 – 2:30 p.m.  Teacher Certification and University Program Accreditation
                                Lynn Steffen, ISU Office of Clinical Experiences and Certification Processes
2:30 – 2:45 p.m.  Break (refreshments provided)
2:45 – 3:00 p.m.  Teacher Candidate Perspectives (Ken Mellendorf)
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.  The Joys of High School Physics Teaching (Stephen Weber, Rockford East High School)
3:15 – 3:30 p.m.  In-service Physics Teacher Survey (Kim Shaw, Department of Physics, SIUE)
3:30 – 3:45 p.m.  Alternative Certification Programs (Michael Lorber, Dept. of Curriculum & Instruction, ISU)
3:45 – 4:00 p.m.  Break (refreshments provided) (reassemble in Room 218B)
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.  Group discussion – problem identification
5:30 – 7:00 p.m.  Supper on your own

Breakout Sessions: Academic Building - Rooms 215A, 218A, and 219B
7:00 – 9:00 p.m.  Work group sessions – problem resolution (leaders TBA)

Breakout session topics will be determined by the participants.  They might include the following:
-- Recruitment of physics teacher candidates
-- Retention of new physics teachers
-- Implication of revised teacher certification law and possible ISAAPT involvement with the Illinois State Board of Education
-- Role of the ISAAPT in teacher recruitment, preparation, certification, and retention
-- Reforming Physics Teacher Education programs
-- University/community college/high school collaboratives

Friday, October 15

  7:00 – 8:00 a.m.  Continental Breakfast (location TBA)
  8:00 – 10:00 a.m.  Work group sessions continue with presentation preparation
                                   (Academic Building - Rooms 215A, 218A, and 219B)
10:00 – 11:00 a.m.  Plenary Session – work group interim reports - Moderator: Mark Boley, ISAAPT President,
                                   Department of Physics, Western Illinois University (Academic Building - Room 212C)

This workshop will be held at Bradley from 10:00 am to noon on Friday, Oct. 15 in Olin 45.

Why does the marble stay on the track when it turns upside down in a loop? Where will a marble land when launched off the end of a ramp? Join CPO science (formerly Cambridge Physics Outlet) for a hands-on physics workshop with marble tracks and an electronic timing system. Perform experiments and discover physics principles through investigation. Enter a raffle for CPO Science equipment.

This workshop will be held at Bradley from 10:00 am to noon on Friday, Oct. 15 in Olin 37.

High school teachers participate in hands-on laboratory activities doing experiments that can be done in a high school science lab. PASCO will provide apparatus, interfaces and sensors to do the following:

Measure the Speed of Sound
Measure g
Verify Newton's 2nd Law
Find Time of Flight for Projectiles
Measure Induction
See Doppler Rocket in Action
Use Visual Accelerometer
Show Conservation of Momentum
Verify Conservation of Mechanical Energy
Look at Diffraction of Light by a Single Slit
Measure Period of a Simple Pendulum

The purpose of this workshop is to provide teachers with information and experiences that will allow them to conduct inquiry-oriented laboratory activities in their classrooms.  Special attention on how to involve students with disabilities will also be included in this workshop.