Graduate school and education
I am interested in understanding the role graduate education can play in bringing education into our core conception of what it means to be a physicist. Graduate school is a critical experience in the preparation of future physicists and a key point of leverage as we attempt to integrate teaching and education research into the broader physics culture. Furthermore, by extending the focus of physics graduate school to include structured attention to education, we may begin to give education greater prominence and validate education research and reform in physics, by physicists. Much of my work in this area has centered around the development and study of a version of Preparing Future Physics Faculty, run at UCSD, which is now called Preparing Future Physicists. I directed the program from Spring 2003-Spring 2005. This work is in collaboration with Noah Finkelstein (University of Colorado) and Barbara Jones (UCSD).Here is info (link and pdf) on the UCSD Preparing Future Physicists program (formerly Preparing Future Physics Faculty).
Here are lists of topics for weekly PFP seminars/workshops from 2002-2003, 2003-2004, and 2004-2005. The lists are informal and somewhat specific to the UCSD program, but would be easy to generalize. There is some overlap between years as well.
Contact me if you want more info about PFP.