[YAPA] Fwd: [osaapt] High School Astronomy Teachers

[Richard Zitto]

Dear Colleagues - this may be of interest to some of you.  Z


Mary Kay Patton wrote:

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>Hello collegues -
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>I received a request as VP for High Schools to pass on the following
>message from a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia.  Please read
>and respond as it applies to you and your school.  Thank you!
> 
>Mary Kay Patton
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>When every high school is sweating to the reading and math testing of No
>Child Left Behind, how does an astronomy class manage to exist?  And 
what
>does the class look like compared to those of previous decades? Hello, 
my
>name is Larry Krumenaker, a Ph.D. student at the University of Georgia,
>and IÂ’m also a former high school physics and astronomy teacher.  If 
high
>school astronomy teaching interests you, then I would like to invite you
>to participate in a survey of high school astronomy courses.
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>The substance of my dissertation will be looking at the current status 
and
>makeup of these courses, how teachers express why the course should 
exist,
>and how No Child Left Behind has affected astronomy teaching.  The field
>has not been surveyed since the early 1980Â’s, since before NCLB and even
>before the full effect of national standards in science or standardized
>testing in general.  The findings could help schools that want to have
>astronomy courses in the future, or maintain them in the present.
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>I need teachers who have taught, or do teach now, a bona fide course in
>astronomy at the high school level.  It doesnÂ’t matter if you are a
>regular classroom teacher or a planetarium educator.  If you are in a
>school that has had astronomy but dropped it, or a science supervisor or
>administrator in a school that has never had one, I would like to 
contact
>you as well.  Your name and school identification information will be
>removed from the dissertation and future published articles so you can 
be
>assured of confidentiality.  If you agree, you will participate in a
>survey which may take 15-25  minutes at most.  Your voluntary
>participation in this project will take place during March 2007.
>
>If you would be interested in helping assess the national view of
>astronomy at the high school level, please contact me by email at
>lkrumena at uga.edu .  A more formal invitation to participate will be
>emailed to you.  You may also mail an inquiry to me at Larry Krumenaker,
>Dept of Math and Science Education, 212 Aderhold Hall, University of
>Georgia, Athens, GA  30602.
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R J Zitto  Physics Instructor
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Youngstown State University
Physics & Astronomy Dept
Youngstown, OH 44555
Office 330 941 7110  fax  330 941 3121
cell 330 550 3652
rjzitto at ysu.edu
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