Preparing high-school physics teachers

Guidelines for preparing high school psychology teachers: course-based and standards-based approaches.

Psychology is one of the most popular elective high school courses. The high school psychology course provides the foundation for students to benefit from psychological perspectives on personal and contemporary issues and learn the rules of evidence and theoretical frameworks of the discipline. The guidelines presented here constitute the second of two reports in this issue of the American Psyc...

Preparing Sustainability-Literate Teachers

Background/Context: This article explores sustainability as an emerging paradigm for preservice preparation of teachers. Sustainability education, which is rooted in Deweyan ideas about the fundamental social purposes of schooling, attends to the tensions created by the interconnectedness of environmental, economic, and social equity systems. Sustainability education extends but does not replac...

The Survey and Analysis of Excellent Senior High School Physics Teachers’ Professional Growth Actuality

Excellent senior high school physics teachers are the backbone power in the new course reform of physics in China. The excellent senior high school physics teachers’ professional growth actuality in Shandong is surveyed in this article by the self-made “Questionnaire of Excellent Senior High School Physics Teachers’ Professional Growth”, and by the survey, the total status and the professional ...

Psychophysiological stress in high school teachers.

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to follow psychophysiological stress over a year with four repeated measurements in full-time employed high school teachers and to compare their results with those obtained in the part-time retired teachers, gardeners and rescue workers. MATERIALS AND METHODS The subjects consisted of 17 (10 females, 7 males) full-time and 9 part-time employed teachers (7 ...

Preparing future science teachers: the physics component of a new programme