1. QuarkNet Beyond the First Year
What happens next?
What?!! A 3-week workshop!
My experience at Notre Dame
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B. Marchant – QuarkNet Staff Teacher

2. What happens next? QuarkNet Mentor Presentation
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3. You’ve mentored 2 high school physics teachers.
You’ve spent 7 weeks teaching new researchers.
You’ve answered a zillion questions about physics, particle physics and “classroom transfer.”
You’ve learned a bit about how the “usual” high school physics class is taught.
That wasn’t so bad . . .
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B. Marchant – QuarkNet Staff Teacher

4. Now you get to: Recruit 10 more teachers
Plan and implement a 3-week workshop
Find speakers
Figure out what “classroom transfer” means
Reserve rooms, labs
Pay 10 more teachers
Schedule activities for 3 weeks
Keep up with 12 total teachers through the academic year
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B. Marchant – QuarkNet Staff Teacher

5. What?!! A 3-week workshop! QuarkNet Mentor Presentation
B. Marchant – QuarkNet Staff Teacher

6. Lead teachers and mentors plan the Associate Teacher Institute together.
ATI is parallel to the Lead Teacher Institute but sensitive to local teachers’ needs.
Approximately 10 associate teachers join the Center.
Largest group of teachers added to QuarkNet Center.
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B. Marchant – QuarkNet Staff Teacher

7. Associate Teacher Institute
10 Associate Teachers
2 Mentors
2 Lead Teachers
Associate Teacher Institute
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B. Marchant – QuarkNet Staff Teacher

8. The ATI program is research-based; for example, experimenting with cosmic ray detectors. Some groups complete detectors and then use them in their classrooms.
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B. Marchant – QuarkNet Staff Teacher

9. Each center hosts a two to three week Associate Teacher Institute (100 hours minimum)
Generally, institutes meet for three 5-day weeks or two 5-day weeks with plans to meet on five Saturdays (or holidays) during the academic year.
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B. Marchant – QuarkNet Staff Teacher

10. Wait there’s more! Years 3+
Host a 1-week workshop
Can also be 5 individual days throughout the academic year (30 hours total)
Continue to keep teachers interest in research and classroom transfer
Generally, planned by the mentors and all of the teachers – lead teachers share the responsibilities with the rest of the teachers
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B. Marchant – QuarkNet Staff Teacher

11. Classroom Transfer Research QuarkNet Mentor Presentation
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12. Campus tours National lab tours QuarkNet Mentor Presentation
choosing students
National lab tours
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B. Marchant – QuarkNet Staff Teacher

13. QuarkNet After the First Year
Things change – 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th years
Research and classroom become foci
Communication leads to teachers becoming members of the particle physics community
Collaboration formed –
mentor(s)- teacher(s)
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B. Marchant – QuarkNet Staff Teacher