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Mathematics Teacher Education Partnership: Actively Learning Mathematics Research Action Cluster: A nationwide network of 38 teams — spanning 30 states, 69 universities, 87 school systems, 9 community colleges, and a variety of other interested institutions — working collaboratively to reform…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Educational Practices | Faculty Professional DevelopmentApril 13, 2017
In 2014, the University of Michigan launched an NSF-funded program to reinvent introductory teaching and learning in the core STEM disciplines. REBUILD (Researching Evidence-Based Undergraduate Instructional and Learning Developments) aimed to promote recruitment, retention, and academic…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceApril 13, 2017
Brown University focuses on improving the mathematical competency among STEM majors by seeking to introduce evidence-based, high impact practices in first and second year STEM courses. The goal, reducing attrition from science and improving students’ identification with science as a career.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching Excellence | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceMarch 17, 2017
Cornell University is undertaking campus-wide and discipline-specific initiatives to provide graduate students and postdoctoral scholars with practical experience in planning for, stimulating, and assessing undergraduate learning with lunchtime workshops and targeted events on developing assessment…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceMarch 22, 2017
The mission of an AAU-UCD partnership is to foster evidence-based, sustainable innovation in STEM instruction through development of cultures of data and evidence around instruction and learning that encourage experimentation, build urgency, and enable change.
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceMarch 24, 2017
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign’s Merit Fellows Program intention is to provide support, including financial) to students in their major and career pursuits, and create a cohort of STEM leaders within the departments of chemistry, integrative biology, and mathematics.
Pedagogy | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceMarch 24, 2017
UKanTeach supports effective STEM learning, effective communication about STEM, supports service learning, while exploring secondary mathematics and science teaching as an option at graduation. If you wish to be a better science communicator or teach secondary (grades 6-12) math or science, then…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching ExcellenceMarch 27, 2017
Seeking to raise the level of STEM literacy, the UKanTeach STEM Teacher Preparation Program provided a leverage point to address STEM literacy at multiple levels of formal schooling. Since UKanTeach students are regular undergraduate STEM discipline majors it became very important that CSTEM…
Pedagogy | Scaffolding | Cultural Change | Articulated Learning Goals | Educational Practices | Assessments | Access | Faculty Professional Development | Technology | Data | Facilities | Leadership Commitment | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching ExcellenceMarch 27, 2017
The University of Missouri’s geology field camp helps create the most effective undergraduate learning: active, cooperative, and demanding.
Pedagogy | Educational PracticesMarch 28, 2017
The University of Missouri offers a variety of undergraduate research programs to allow students to explore the unknown through hands-on work with faculty mentors and hopefully increase the number of students who pursue STEM fields.
Pedagogy | Educational Practices | AccessMarch 28, 2017