Physics Bazaar
(Committee on Physics in High Schools)
Share your great ideas for demonstration and lab equipment at this poster session. Bring a poster to describe the use, and lots of samples to sell.

Committee on Educational Technologies

Best Practices for Teaching with Technology
Technology gives physics students new ways to get data, analyze it, and communicate their results; it helps teachers present concepts and perform demonstrations; and it spawns unprecedented logistical nightmares. What does technology make possible? How can it work well in a real classroom? We seek presentations describing new insights into how to use technology effectively to promote student learning.

Distance Learning
Papers related to the teaching and learning of physics in non-face-to-face environments are invited for a session on distance learning. Possible topics include delivering course content, demonstrations, and assessments, as well as performing laboratories, holding discussions, etc.

Assessment of Effectiveness of Educational Technology in Instruction
(Committee on Research in Physics Education)
The use of educational technology is pervasive in today's classroom, but how do we know how effective it is? Discuss the technology used and how you have assessed its effectiveness.

Wii Remote for Physics Learning
The Wii gaming platform has been used by many of us to help increase interest in physics and to help teach some topics. We encourage those who have used Wiis or similar technologies to share with us their experiences and findings.

Committee on Graduate Education in Physics

How to Prepare Undergraduates for Graduate School
(Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education)
This session will highlight best practices in preparing undergraduate students for graduate study, considering both preparing them for successful admissions and having the skills they need to be successful as graduate students.

Committee on International Physics Education

Physics Education Research Around the World
(Committee on Research in Physics Education)
This is an invited and contributed session designed for reports from groups around the world working on Physics Education Research. We are interested on research approaches, perspectives and results in different countries; successes and challenges of this area of research around the world; and the effect of the structure of different school systems on research.

International Programs and Cooperation
(Committee on Physics in High Schools)
International cooperation is a fixture of physics research and is increasingly becoming part of physics education. Teachers, physicists, and students involved in high school level international collaborations are invited to share their experiences in this session.

Teaching Physics Around the World: Part I
This is an invited and contributed session designed for reports from groups around the world working on physics teaching. We are interested on perspectives, results, successes and challenges around the world; and the effect of the structure of different school systems on physics teaching.

Committee on Physics in High Schools

Teaching Physics in Urban Schools
(Committee on Teacher Preparation)
Educators with the experience of teaching Physics in urban districts/schools are invited to share their challenges and success stories. What makes urban science learners different from suburban? What instructional strategies have turned to be effective/ineffective in urban Physics classrooms? Discussions of political, social, psychological, and pedagogical issues affecting Urban Physics teaching and learning are welcome.

What to Teach After Newtonian Mechanics
Ideally a collaboration between High School and college faculty to discuss both content and concepts that are critical to the success of students in college, after a first year physics course in HS. This session can showcase your content that is NOT about Newton?s Laws, but that you feel is critical, and you wish to share with other physics teachers.

Particle Physics in High Schools
Share your successes and the problems you've had in bringing particle physics to the high school classroom. How did you overcome difficulties? How did it go? Describe what students learned and what they were able to accomplish.

Committee on Physics in Two-Year Colleges

Innovations in the TYC Curriculum
This session welcomes papers concerning innovations in any aspect of TYC physics: recruitment, retention, pedagogy, transfer articulation, etc.

Getting Published
Share with others what you learned about getting published in THE PHYSICS TEACHER. What prompted you to submit papers for publication? What should other potential authors know as they prepare papers for publication?

Favorite Activities in the TYC Classroom
Please submit your favorite classroom activities to share in the TYC resource room. This activity can be a lab, a worksheet, a good problem, an in class activity...

New Faculty Workshop for TYC Faculty
If you attended the TYC New faculty conference in April 2008 please consider giving a talk describing your experience and how it has impacted your teaching.

Committee on Physics in Undergraduate Education

Computer Modeling in the Introductory Course
(Committee on Educational Technologies)
Although the modeling method can be used without computers, the use of computers allows students to study problems that are difficult and time consuming, to visualize their results, and to communicate their results with others. Share your experiences incorporating computer modeling into your introductory physics classes in this session.

SPS Undergraduate Research and Outreach (Posters)
Undergraduates who have made meaningful progress on a research project in any physics or physics-related field are invited to submit an abstract. Abstracts from those who want to speak about their science outreach efforts are also welcome to submit. Undergraduate mentors might also submit poster abstracts for this session if the presentation is geared to an audience of undergraduates and their mentors.

Committee on Research in Physics Education

Successful Strategies for Dissemination and Implementation of PER-Based Materials and Research Findings Beyond the "Traditional PER Faculty"
The session will focus on successful strategies of disseminating PER-based materials to the non-PER faculty in colleges and universities. Everybody who have had some measurable success in this area is welcome to contribute.

Interactive Lecture Demonstrations: Physics Suite Materials that Enhance Learning in Lecture
(Committee on Educational Technologies)
This session will begin with an update on Interactive Lecture Demonstrations (ILDs), followed by contributed papers on their use at a variety of institutions. Those who have implemented ILDs in their introductory physics course are encouraged to submit a contributed paper.

Committee on Science Education for the Public

Physics and Society Education
Contributed papers for the session on Physics and Society Education at the summer 2009 meeting in Ann Arbor are requested. Topics appropriate to physics and society education include, but are not limited to, energy, the environment, nuclear issues, and psuedoscience.

Committee on Space Science and Astronomy

Innovations in Teaching Astronomy
Please submit a presentation proposal focusing on innovative teaching methods, strategies, and resources pertaining to specifically to astronomy and space science content.

Highlights of the International Year of Astronomy
What are you doing for IYA? Star parties, visits to local schools, astronomy movies: the possibilities are endless! Share local efforts via contributed talks or posters for this session on ?Highlights of the International Year of Astronomy.?

Committee on Teacher Preparation

Improving the Student Teaching Experience for Future Teachers of Physics
Student teaching or clinical experience is required for initial licensure by all states. The student?s satisfaction and success during student teaching often impacts his or her decision to remain in the education profession. How can Physics Departments help to enhance this experience for future Teachers of Physics? We seek papers from individuals or departments that have tried to answer this question.

Teachers in Residence: Adding Reality to Physics Teacher Preparation Programs
(Committee on Physics in High Schools)
Many consider Teacher-in-Residence (Master Teachers) the linchpin of successful teacher preparation programs. They act as agents of change applying years of classroom wisdom to the tasks of identifying, training, and supporting teachers of physics. We seek contributed papers from individuals who have taken on this role or from physics departments who have successfully used the services of Master Teachers.

KSTF Teaching Fellowships: Preparing and Retaining Outstanding High School Science Teachers
(Committee on Physics in High Schools)
This session seeks presentations from Knowles Fellows who have been actively teaching physics or physical science. This session will provide an opportunity for these Fellows to share some of the 'lessons learned' in their first years of teaching and share how the types of support that the KSTF has provided them has impacted their development as a teacher.

Teacher Preparation: Research on Teacher Quality Instruments
(Committee on Research in Physics Education)
In this era of accountability, teacher quality is an oft-used yet hard-to-define term. Which research-validated instruments measure aspects of teacher quality meaningfully? What role does physics education research play in this endeavor?

Committee on Women in Physics

Forgotten Women in Science
(Committee on History & Philosophy of Physics)
The organizers of the "Forgotten Women in Science" Session seek contributions shedding light on the roles of women in the development of modern science. The talk should have a historical focus and be of interest to a general audience.