The University of Malta collaborated with GIREP (The International Research Group on Physics Teaching / Groupe International de Recherche sur l'Enseignement de la Physique) in organising two Webinars in 2020 and 2021. Both Webinars were aimed at helping teachers, academics and researchers from all parts of the world to get together and discuss their views and research results on how physics teaching can be improved in schools and universities.
This meant that there was a focus on how prospective and in service teachers can be better trained to make this improvement happen.
Two sets of publications resulted from the post webinar contributions of Webinar 2020. Some papers were published by the Institute of Physics on the Journal of Physics: Conference Series available online.
Other contributions were published on the Springer book entitled: Physics Teacher Education-what matters. This book is already available at the UM Library.
Another two sets of publications resulted from the post webinar contributions of Webinar 2021, for which Prof. Pauline Galea and Dr Joan Borg Marks were editors.
It is with great pleasure that we announce, on the one hand, one set of publications on the Journal of Physics: Conference Series available online.
These were published on 9 May 2023.
Another set of contributions were recently published as a book by Springer, at the end of December 2023. This can be accessed either in the form of an ebook or in hard copy. There will soon be a copy of this book at the UM library. The book is entitled: Physics Teacher Education: More about what matters.
We hope that these publications which highlight some of the ways that can improve physics teaching, will inspire teachers of Physics to take their teaching to a higher level. Moreover, it is hoped that these publications will also help in physics teacher training.