Preparation of high‐school teachers of science
SEP 01, 1959
The following comments concern the preliminary draft of a report which is to be reviewed by several scientific organizations, including the AAPT and the AIP, who will then submit their recommendations for revision of the draft to the Cooperative Committee on the Teaching of Science and Mathematics of the AAAS, under whose aegis the report was prepared. As indicated below, comments, expressions of opinion, and suggested revisions will be welcomed by the Committee. J. W. Buchta, the chairman of the Cooperative Committee, is associate dean, College of Science, Literature, and the Arts at the University of Minnesota.
DOI: 10.1063/1.3060965
Typical statements that may be gleaned from a variety of studies and compilations of data on the preparation of high‐school teachers are:
“Training in physics ranged from 8 to 55 semester hours with the median at 16. Only 13 (about 25%) had majored in physics.”
“The average number of semester hours in physics taken by the science teachers was 10.”
“One third of the physics teachers had fewer than 10 semester hours in physics.”
More about the authors
J. W. Buchta, University of Minnesota.
© 1959 American Institute of Physics
