"Teaching College Physics at the Trumbull Campus"

Joe Gallant

Dept. of Physics, Kent State University

Abstract

Almost all of my College Physics students take the course only because their major requires it. Their primary motivation is to check College Physics off their things-I-have-to-do-to-graduate list. The traditional lecture method of teaching physics is particularly ineffective under these circumstances. I will discuss the two significant changes I have made in my teaching - taking a more active approach and increasing my use of computers - to address the problem.

Elizabeth K. Mann