Actual Teaching Assignments Call for Broader Pre-Service Training for Chemistry-Physics Teachers

Authors

Robert W. Hanson, University of Northern IowaFollow

Document Type

Article

Abstract

Full-time physics teachers are rare in Iowa's high schools-information on record with the Iowa Department of Public Instruction indicates that there are only eleven in the entire state. Full-time chemistry teachers are not much more common-the records show that there are 33 in Iowa. The most common combination involving physics includes chemistry, with 62.5 percent of all physics teachers teaching chemistry and 52.5 percent of all chemistry teachers teaching physics. Most of the 240 teachers who teach both subjects teach a third subject as well. Tables 1 and 2 show the numbers of teaching combinations that include chemistry or physics and those that include both chemistry and physics. Table 3 lists the subjects that are taught in combination with physics and chemistry.

Publication Date

March 1974

Journal Title

Iowa Science Teachers Journal

Volume

11

Issue

2

First Page

3

Last Page

7

Copyright

© Copyright 1974 by the Iowa Academy of Science

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

Recommended Citation

Hanson, Robert W. (1974) "Actual Teaching Assignments Call for Broader Pre-Service Training for Chemistry-Physics Teachers," Iowa Science Teachers Journal: Vol. 11: No. 2, Article 4.
Available at: https://scholarworks.uni.edu/istj/vol11/iss2/4