2012 PhysTEC Solicitation

The Physics Teacher Education Coalition (PhysTEC) has funding from the NSF to run a competition for new sites again in fall of 2012. We expect to add another half dozen sites through a procedure that includes pre- and full- proposals, external merit review panel, and site visits. This session will include two components. First, we will describe how we have conducted our solicitation process in the past several years and include likely deadline dates, hints on what made proposals stand out at each stage, and how you might shape your program to be competitive. Second, we will elicit your feedback on how we are targeting new sites, while staying within the guidelines of our project and its national goals. Please come and bring your good ideas. If you are new to PhysTEC, find out what we have funded in the past, and how we are working to improve physics teacher education through this process.