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 understand the major learning outcomes as they emerged with their majors.
Access | Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching Excellence | Biology | Facilities | The University of Kansas | Articulated Learning Goals | Chemistry | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Pedagogy | Technology | Assessments | Engineering | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Data | Educational Practices | Math | Physics | All | Scaffolding | Cultural Change
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 UKanTeach can help.
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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.
Biology | University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | Articulated Learning Goals | Chemistry | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Pedagogy | Assessments | Leadership Commitment | Educational Practices | Math
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.
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.
Align Incentives with the Expectation of Teaching Excellence | Biology | University of California, Davis | Articulated Learning Goals | Chemistry | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Pedagogy | Technology | Assessments | Engineering | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Data | Educational Practices | Math | Physics | Scaffolding | Cultural Change
The UA AAU Undergraduate STEM Education Project has three primary goals: Redesign courses in five disciplines to include more evidence-based strategies, shift the culture at UA toward greater emphasis on collaborative active-learning pedagogies, and explore and develop Collaborative Learning Spaces (CLS).
Biology | The University of Arizona | Chemistry | Pedagogy | Engineering | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Educational Practices | Physics | Scaffolding | Cultural Change
The Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at Stony Brook University began a pilot program to develop the communication skills of graduate Teaching Assistants. The goal was to improve undergraduates’ experience in a gateway course, with the long-term goal of bolstering retention of students in the STEM disciplines.
Biology | Stony Brook University - The State University of New York | Chemistry | Pedagogy | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Educational Practices | Physics | Cultural Change
Northwestern University Ventures in Biology Education (nuViBe) aims to reshape Northwestern undergraduate bioscience education and prepare students to pursue cutting-edge research, advanced degrees, and professional careers in biological and biomedical sciences.
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Michigan State University is instituting reform of the gateway courses in biology, physics, and chemistry with an ultimate goal to design and implementation of a set of coherent gateway courses where students learn how to engage with the core ideas of the discipline in scientifically plausible ways.
Biology | Michigan State University | Articulated Learning Goals | Chemistry | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Pedagogy | Assessments | Faculty Professional Development | Leadership Commitment | Data | Educational Practices | Physics | Scaffolding | Cultural Change
The Center for Innovative Teaching and Learning (CITL) at Indiana University Bloomington provides leadership and expertise to enable innovation in curricula, implementation of powerful technologies and pedagogies in and beyond the classroom, and student engagement with learning resources and materials to promote critical analytic and research skills.
Biology | Indiana University Bloomington | Chemistry | Establish Strong Measures of Teaching Excellence | Technology | Faculty Professional Development | Data | Math | Physics | Scaffolding | Cultural Change