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Objectives
Relating to the Fellows, the objectives are to:
- Engage Fellows in productive, and innovative
instruction and activities to enable teaching STEM skills.
- Connect education, research, and career development of Fellows.
- Mentor Fellows in best teaching practices.
- Provide practical teaching experience for Fellows.
- Fellows develop and deliver authentic high school learning activities.
Relating to the secondary teachers, students, and schools, the
objectives are to:
- Increase student learning and interest in science and mathematics.
- Use hierarchical learning model to connect concepts in curriculum.
- Deliver hands-on inquiry activities in 9-12 grade
science and math curricula.
- Connect city problems with student learning to contextualize STEM education.
- Integrate authentic STEM learning across grade levels, courses, and schools.
- Incorporate hands-on examples of technology in teaching activities.
- Incorporate computer-based learning in teaching activities.
- Enable teacher use of multimedia/web resources for
course design/delivery.
- Create a scalable network of partners.
- Enable STEM teachers to share research skills with classrooms and colleagues.
- Implement changes in high schools and the community to sustain the program.
- Implement changes at the university to sustain the program.
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