Reddit reviews Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science

While you likely won't have any issues with learning the content, teaching physics is a very, very different beast than teaching mathematics. There are similarities, for sure. Lots of them. But there are also vast differences.

If you're serious about teaching physics, especially at the AP level, look into these resources:

• Five Easy Lessons: Strategies for Successful Physics Teaching
  
  
• Teaching for Conceptual Understanding in Science. Conceptual understanding in physics is essential. If students can solve complex physics problems mathematically, but can't explain things conceptually, then their true understanding of physics is quite limited.
  
  
• Look into Modeling Instrucution, a research-based method of teaching physics. Frank Noschese's blog has a collection of videos explaining the methodology, and the American Modeling Teachers Association holds workshops in the summer around the US.
  
  
• Teaching Introductory Physics. While Five Easy Lessons is an awesome resource, it's footnote compared to this. It's basically the bible of physics education.
  
  
• Physics! Blog! by Kelly OShea. See her model building posts in particular for what an excellent physics class looks like. It probably looks absolutely nothing like what the physics classes you took looked like. But it's what a 5-star physics class should look like.
  
  Feel free to PM me if you have any questions. I have lots more to say on the subject :P