Physics: Adolescence Education Program at Fredonia
There has probably never been a better time to enter the physics-teaching field. The percentage of high-school students taking physics is increasing, while many teachers are retiring. Fredonia’s Physics: Adolescence Education program allows you to combine two of your passions; your love of physics and science, and your ambition to shape and develop young minds. Fredonia will help future physics teachers develop the ideas and practices that will make them effective in the classrooms of an increasingly complex and diverse society.
The Fredonia Difference
Fredonia gets you in a real-life classroom your first year and each year, culminating in a final, full semester of student teaching. Fredonia’s experienced instructional team will support you and assure you have a quality learning experiences. Fredonia's College of Education is a member in good standing of the Association for Advancing Quality in Educator Preparation (AAQEP), a nationally recognized accrediting body approved by New York State Education Department.
Career Opportunities for Physics: Adolescence Education
- Middle school physics teacher
- High school physics teacher
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Why Physics: Adolescence Education at Fredonia?
Versatility
A New York certification for teaching physics easily transfers to most other states.
Innovation
In requiring our students to have what amounts to a full physics degree, we prepare our prospective teachers to not only teach physics effectively at the secondary level, but also innovate in the classroom, and engage their students in meaningful courses.
Student teaching options
You have choices for your student teaching experience. Fredonia has connections with schools from Hamburg, NY, to NYC, to Houston, TX.
Sample Courses
PHYS 330 Thermodynamics
Concepts of temperature, laws of thermodynamics, entropy, thermodynamic relations and potentials, processes, properties and cycles, applications to physical systems, introduction to statistical mechanics.
SCED 303 Assessment for Inquiry-Based Science
Different models of evaluation and various techniques used in the assessment of science knowledge and skills will be developed. Examples and procedures directly related to the teaching of inquiry-based science will be stressed.
EDU 349 Educational Psychology
Areas of psychology utilized in the teaching and learning processes. Analyzing and interpreting scientific data related to individual differences, growth, learning, group processes, systematic assessment, measurement, and evaluation.
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