IN THIS ISSUE
Looking Back
Thomas Rossing
Message from the Chair
Ken Krane
Letter to the Editor
Stewart Brekke
Stopping the Revolving Door
Christopher Chiaverina
Building Bridges Within the Forum
Charles Holbrow
Don't Lecture Me on Lectures!
Kelly Roos
APS Education and Outreach Programs
Fred Stein
Is it Just Change or is it Improvement?
Karen Cummings
Executive Committee Virtual Meeting
Browsing Through the Journals
Thomas Rossing
Ten-Year Author Index 1993-2002
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 Looking Back
Thomas Rossing
"I look back at the ten-year history of the APS Forum on Education, which was founded 10 years ago. Drasko Jovanovic, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, was elected the first chair, and the Executive Committee of the Forum on Education held its first meeting on October 25, 1992."
 Message from the Chair
Ken Krane
"I would like to take this opportunity to use the Chair's column to bring Forum on Education members up to date on three issues that are under discussion by the Forum Executive Committee and to encourage comments by members on these issues."
 Letter to the Editor
Stewart Brekke
"...the most commonly used high school physics textbook is Physics: Principles and Problems by Zitzewitz et al."
 Stopping the Revolving Door
Christopher Chiaverina
"Last semester I had the pleasure of working with a truly gifted pre-service teacher. She knows her subject (physics) inside and out, spent untold hours preparing for her classes, and, in the words of my department chairman, is "a natural born teacher." ... However, I do have one concern: will she remain in the classroom?"
 Building Bridges Within the Forum
Charles Holbrow
"What can the Forum on Education and the AAPT do for each other? I was a member of the APS Committee on Education as we worked in 1990-91 to found the FEd, and I remember our aspiration was to involve research and industrial physicists in the rising efforts of their local communities to improve science education in general and physics education in particular."
 Don't Lecture Me on Lectures!
Kelly Roos
"I am open to new ways of instruction (as we all should be), and indeed, I have over the last ten years stayed abreast of and experimented with many of the novel modes of instruction which have come forth as a result of the reformers. But, I always seem to end up convinced that the new mode I had been trying was not really better than the traditional methods, and not worth the extra time and effort I usually expended in implementing the new fangled ideas."
 APS Education and Outreach Programs
Fred Stein
"The APS Director of Education and Outreach works with all units through four APS standing committees: the Committee on Education, the Committee on Careers and Professional Development, the Committee on Minorities, and the Committee on the Status of Women in Physics. The APS/Education web site contains descriptions of programs, committees and links to current innovations in undergraduate education."
 Is it Just Change or is it Improvement?
Karen Cummings
"Computer based homework systems facilitate the distribution of personalized homework problems, provide the immediate feedback to students that is so important for motivation and learning and provide real time (or “just in time”) data to instructors on the status of individuals and the class which allows dynamic, student-centered approaches to learning. For these reasons, I have stopped asking myself if I should use a computer based homework system and started thinking about how I best use the system to improve student learning and maximize student comfort with technology."
Executive Committee Virtual Meeting
Browsing Through the Journals
Thomas Rossing
Ten-Year Author Index 1993-2002
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