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AP Physics

This five-day workshop focuses on some of the central themes of Seminole State's AP Physics course. The AP Physics Committee has been creating significantly different tests over the last several years, and this Institute will cover some of the changes. Topics include:

• Lab-based physics: teaching and learning physics in a laboratory setting.
• Applying physics to modern-day problems and breaking students' (and instructors') habit of memorizing typical problems.
• Challenging students with advanced problem-solving experiences.
• Placing more significance on calculus in problem solving; understanding calculus concepts in AP Physics C, including Gauss's and Faraday's laws.
• The breadth of and recent modifications to the AP Physics B curriculum.
• Test-taking strategies for students.

The Institute focuses on four main components:

1. Problem-solving skills, approaches to problem solving and advanced problem-solving techniques.
2. Lab-centered approaches to teaching physics.
3. Recent tests and published multiple-choice sections.
4. Sharing ideas and best practices among participants, including ideas for great demos and lab experiences, and how to best deal with homework, the grading of homework and other high-school issues that AP Physics teachers face.

Other topics to be addressed include:

• Ideas for new AP teachers.
• Getting the most out of homework assignments.
• Modeling and white boarding in physics.
• High- vs. no-tech labs.
• Graphical analysis and lab skills in high school.
• Getting the most of your brightest students.
• Getting more out of your weaker students.

Each participant will receive a CD full of "goodies," including past exams, rubrics and solutions.

The AP Physics Institute will be co-presented are David Jones and Dr. Alexander Dickison. Jones is a teacher from Miami-Dade County with more than 18 years experience teaching AP Physics. He has served as an AP reader for 10 years and has been a consultant for the College Board. Dickison is a college physics instructor with 38 years of teaching experience. He has more than 20 years of service with the AP Institute and has been an AP reader and table leader.