Providing Support to Inner-city Students and Teachers Through the Physics Van Inservice Institute

There are many programs for the professional development of high school physics teachers that have proven to be effective in preparing these teachers to conduct inquiry-based activities in the classroom. In this paper, we describe a small-scale professional development program called the Physics Van Inservice Institute. During the program, teachers are engaged in inquiry-based physics modules and are then able to borrow the equipment so that they can conduct the activities in their own classes. ©2007 American Association of Physics Teachers

Contents

• BODY OF ARTICLE
• Background
• Program Details
• Van Activities
• Van Driver
• Teacher Inservice
• Equipment
• Evaluation
• Summary
• Acknowledgments
• REFERENCES
• About the Author
• FIGURES