Science teacher goes to summer school

A science teacher from Okeechobee County recently went to “summer school” to learn some new teaching tricks in physics: 

An Osceola Middle School teacher, Magi Cable, is the first teacher from Okeechobee County to complete an extensive 30 hours of training in a professional development institute at Santa Fe Community College in Gainesville. The institute was hosted by the American Association of Physics Teachers (AAPT) Physics Training Resource Agent (PRTA) program and supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF).

“We’ll need to teach this to the students for FCAT,” commented Mrs. Cable. “Most science teachers have very little experience with it because their degree is based in Biology.”

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AAPT/PTRA was created with the goal of providing teachers with the opportunity to better their teaching techniques and enhance the physics content of their lessons. The program also aims to provide workshops for teacher that generally have a limited opportunity to attend workshops dealing with physics issues.

American Association of Physics Teachers site.