MTSU Among Five New Physics Teacher Education Sites

November 4, 2010

In addition to their recent UTeach replication initiative, Middle Tennessee State University has been awarded a grant to develop their physics teacher education program into a national model.

The APS-led Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) recently announced it would fund five additional universities to develop their physics teacher education programs into national models. The new awardees are California State University, Long Beach; Chicago State University; Middle Tennessee State University; Towson University; and the University of California, Davis. The winning institutions were selected from a pool of 52 applicants, which were evaluated based on their capacity for large increases in the number of physics teachers graduating from their programs, as well as strong departmental and institutional support for teacher preparation efforts.
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The other university replicating UTeach and participating in the PhysTEC initiative is the University of Colorado at Boulder.