Physics Teacher Question:

☛ Describe a college class or experience that has most influenced your teaching philosophy.
☛ What to you think is your most exciting, effective, and memorable lesson plan. How do you know it's effective?
☛ How do handle a classroom of students with a wide variety of skill levels?
☛ What are some ways that you use technology in the classroom? How do you find technologybeneficial? Can technology every have negative impacts on learning?
☛ What do you think it the difference between a novice and expert physics student? How do you transform notice students into experts?
☛ What role to you think homework should play in a physics class? What methods do you employ to encourage students to do homework?
☛ In what ways are you a better teach today than you were several years ago?
☛ What is a physics concept that you find students have particular difficulty with? How do you help students overcome this difficulty?
☛ What do you say to a student who asks why an astronaut is "weightless."
☛ A student is pushing a cart, both the student and cart are accelerating. The student claims that the force of the student on the cart is greater than the cart on the student. What do you say to this student?
☛ Here is a cart of objects that could be used for physics demonstrations, spend the next 5 minutes saying how you could use objects on the cart for various demonstrations.
☛ Use Gauss's Law to find the electric field a distance R away from an infinite line charge.
☛ What questions do you have for us?