Physics Education seeks to serve the physics teaching community and we welcome contributions from teachers. We seek to support the teaching of physics to students aged 11 up to introductory undergraduate level. We aim to provide professional development and support for teachers of physics around the world by providing:

• a forum for practising teachers to make an active contribution to the physics teaching community;
• knowledge updates in physics, educational research and relevant wider curriculum developments;
• strategies for teaching and classroom management that will engage and motivate students. 

If you would like to discuss any ideas you have for a paper or article please contact the publisher at ped@iop.org.

Feature papers

We want papers which are interesting and useful to teachers of physics in schools and colleges. Papers submitted to this section can relate to the teaching and learning of physics, the examining and assessment of physics, new approaches to the general presentation and application of physics in the classroom, and curriculum developments around the world. We also publish papers of general and/or topical interest to physics teachers. We generally expect these papers to be up to 3000 words long (five journal pages). All contributions are subject to peer review by members of the Editorial Board. Authors of Feature papers will be requested to send a small photograph of themselves with brief biographical details.

Frontline

This section is for shorter papers which feature good, immediately useful ideas for the classroom or the laboratory. These may be classroom experiments and demonstrations, investigations, equipment, practical work and ways of teaching difficult topics in physics. Contributions should be concise with a maximum of 1000 words (excluding any diagrams, photos etc). Submissions are peer reviewed and fully searchable by keyword (there are no abstracts). For further information on the topics covered within Frontline please go to our website at http://iopscience.iop.org/0031-9120

News

You are welcome to let us know about events, activities and news which may inform and encourage other teachers. Relevant forthcoming events are listed in the January, May and September issues: we depend on our readership to let us know what is happening.

People

The physics teaching community is full of inspiring and interesting people; this section features the schools and the personalities who have made an impact in physics education or, equally importantly, in industry, finance, the media or technology. You are welcome to write in about the people you know and the experiences you have had.

Resource reviews

Have you seen any resources that you would like to recommend? If so contact us and you could write a review. Reviews include books, equipment, electronic media, DVDs, television programmes and places to visit.

Letters

We publish letters which are of interest to the physics teaching community including short anecdotes, opinions, questions and comments on previous articles or letters. Letters are not normally more than 800 words.

Signing off

A light-hearted look at physics teaching. If you can make your colleagues laugh, why not try putting it in writing.

Supplementary material

The electronic version of Physics Education can include extra material as multimedia attachments. Any electronically stored material can be attached, so you can share full resources with the other physics teachers and include exciting illustrations with submissions.