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Table of Contents

List of Editors and Editorial Board .................................................................................v

PhysTEC Preface ............................................................................................................. vi

Editors’ Preface ............................................................................................................... vii

Review Paper

Research on the education of physics teachers, David E. Meltzer .................................................... 3

Summaries

Original Papers Written for this Book

Design principles for effective physics instruction: A case from physics and everyday thinking,

Fred Goldberg, Valerie Otero, and Stephen Robinson .................................................................... 17

Inquiry-based course in physics and chemistry for preservice K-8 teachers, Michael E.

Loverude, Barbara L. Gonzalez, and Roger Nanes ......................................................................... 19

A physics department’s role in preparing physics teachers: The Colorado learning assistant

model, Valerie Otero, Steven Pollock, and Noah Finkelstein.......................................................... 20

Preparing future teachers to anticipate student diffi culties in physics in a graduate-level

course in physics, pedagogy, and education research, John R. Thompson, Warren M.

Christensen, and Michael C. Wittmann ........................................................................................... 21

Pedagogical content knowledge and preparation of high school physics teachers,

Eugenia Etkina ................................................................................................................................ 22

Reprints

Combined physics course for future elementary and secondary school teachers,

Lillian C. McDermott;

A perspective on teacher preparation in physics and other sciences: The need for special

science courses for teachers, Lillian C. McDermott;

Improving the preparation of K-12 teachers through physics education research, Lillian C.

McDermott, Paula R. L. Heron, Peter S. Shaffer, and MacKenzie R. Stetzer ................................. 24

Inquiry experiences as a lecture supplement for preservice elementary teachers and

general education students, Jill A. Marshall and James T. Dorward .............................................. 27

A modeling method for high school physics instruction, Malcolm Wells, David Hestenes,

and Gregg Swackhamer ................................................................................................................... 28

Research-design model for professional development of teachers: Designing lessons with

physics education research, Bat-Sheva Eylon and Esther Bagno .................................................... 30

Articles

Original Papers Written for this Book

Design principles for effective physics instruction: A case from physics and everyday thinking,

Fred Goldberg, Valerie Otero, and Stephen Robinson, Am. J. Phys. 78 , 1265–1277 (2010) ......... 33

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