Many advances in recent years have affected the way we teach physics to all students and can have a particularly large effect on the training of physics teachers. Some of the important considerations for how we prepare teachers are:

• Research on how students learn physics: This research helps us understand how to improve our teaching. For future teachers we must go beyond just an improvement of teaching and convey to them the importance of this research and its impact on physics pedagogy.
• Involving teachers in research: One way for future and present teachers to understand fully the value and process of physics is for them to become involved in the research process. However, much of contemporary physics research involves large collaborations and sophisticated instrumentation. Some programs such as QuarkNet (http://quarknet.fnal.gov) have found ways to bring teachers into the research efforts. Outside physics several of the projects in the US National Science Digital Library (http://nsdl.org) are providing tools so that teachers and their students can have direct access to research data.
• Teaching contemporary concepts: Modern visualization techniques allow us to teach about complex topics such as quantum physics and their applications. Future teachers can learn about applications such a PET and MRI which could motivate their students to study physics at a higher level.
• Internet resources: The materials that are available on the Internet provide a large amount of information that can be used in teaching. They also provide a large amount of useless or wrong information about physics. Teachers need help in determining what information is appropriate for classroom use and what is to be avoided.
• Communications: Contemporary technology enables us to stay in contact easily with the students even after they leave the university. We can continue to work with them in a variety of ways. Finding the most appropriate ways is a challenge for us.

This Workshop will focus on these issues and their relation to the preparation of physics teachers.